Shift Work Arrangements Clause Samples
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Shift Work Arrangements. (a) Shift rosters shall be prepared by Optus after consultation with relevant employees and give employees a minimum 7 days prior notice of the roster.
(b) Any Optus initiated roster variation which does not permit 7 days prior notice shall only occur on the basis of unforeseen or exceptional circumstances, for example illness or emergency.
(c) Employees are empowered within criteria set up by workplace management to exchange shifts with fellow employees subject always to local operational requirements. In such circumstances, only the employee actually doing the work is entitled to any applicable loading. No additional costs shall be incurred by Optus for such arrangements.
(d) Employees may be required, on a rostered basis, to work at least 1 additional shift each roster period at the applicable overtime rate.
(e) Overtime worked in conjunction with rostered shift work shall attract either the non core rate or overtime rate whichever is the larger but not both.
(f) Employees who are employed on 7 day shift working rosters, i.e. where working hours are rostered and worked outside core hours on each of the 7 days per week across the shift cycle, will be entitled to additional annual leave of up to 5 working days per year. Where rostered duty is performed on less than 10 Sundays in the year the additional leave will accrue at the rate of 1/2 day per rostered Sunday worked up to a maximum of 5 days.
(g) Shift employees while on annual leave shall be entitled to a loading equal to the average shift loading incurred for that year or a pro rata loading for any employees who have completed less than one year's such work.
(h) Employees whose scheduled day off falls on a public holiday shall elect either a day in lieu of the public holiday, an additional day’s leave or a day's pay at the core rate. The additional leave does not attract shift loadings.
Shift Work Arrangements. 6.1 The Secretary may designate an employee, or group of employees, as shift workers if the employee(s) is rostered to perform ordinary hours of duty outside the period 6.30 am to
6.2 Shift workers will receive the penalty rates as set out in the following table:
Shift Work Arrangements. 26.1 Afternoon and night shift allowances
i) Afternoon shift – 12.5%;
ii) Night shift – 15.0%.
Shift Work Arrangements. 15.7.1. Production Shift Crew employees will be paid 11.66% more than their ordinary hourly rate for the ordinary hour component of their rostered hours, in recognition of alternating weekly between day and night shifts.
15.7.2. This shift loading is derived from averaging the historical shift loadings for day (0%), afternoon (15%) and night shift (20%) over the shift cycle.
15.7.3. An employee who works overtime in addition to the rostered (ordinary & extra hours) for that shift, will be paid at overtime rates prescribed by this agreement but no shift penalty shall apply to those overtime hours.
15.7.4. The day on which any shift starts becomes the shift of that day. E.g. Night shift commencing at 7pm Thursday becomes the Thursday night shift.
15.7.5. Where an employee engaged as a Support Crew worker is transferred to Production Shift Crew night shift work for a period of less than one rostered week, those hours worked shall count towards the employee's ordinary hours for that week but the employee will be paid at overtime rates.
15.7.6. All employees, when changing from one shift to another shall observe a minimum ten hour break commencing at the conclusion of the previous shift (including any overtime worked beyond the normal completion of that shift) and shall be released from duty without loss of pay for rostered or ordinary hours falling within the ten hour break.
Shift Work Arrangements. Shift work arrangements shall be agreed between the Company, employees and the Union in the section or sections concerned. The agreements reached will reflect those arrangements best suited to the work of the section or sections concerned and with due regard to the employees’ health and safety, including:
(a) Roster arrangements
(b) Supervision
(c) Health counselling and monitoring
Shift Work Arrangements. The starting time of a particular shift shall dictate the penalty which may be payable. In no circumstances shall the penalties as prescribed by clause 5.3.1, 5.3.2 or 5.3.3 be combined for the same period of work.
Shift Work Arrangements. 21.1 Rostered shift means any shift of which the employee concerned has had at least 48 hours’ notice.
Shift Work Arrangements a) The ordinary hours of work may be worked on any day of the week, Monday – Sunday, potentially as a 24 hours operation on each of the 7 days in the week, except for unpaid meal breaks.
b) Subject to the Company’s right to fix daily hours of work and commencement and finishing times in line with the ordinary hours of work, a shift worker will not work on more than six consecutive days unless the Company and the employee agree.