Ordinary Hours of Work The ordinary hours of work will be worked any time between 6.00am to 6.00pm Monday to Friday. Ordinary hours of work may be varied by agreement between the Employer and the majority of the employees concerned and the ETU State Secretary (via the relevant full time ETU Official) to accommodate the hours or work required for the most efficient and safe operation of the Employer and the requirements of its client. Where agreement is reached to work alternate hours, occupational health and safety principles will prevail. Proper health monitoring procedures will be introduced and suitable rosters clearly agreed prior to commencing work. Adequate supervision must always be provided. Matters on which agreement may be reached include:
Make-Ready Work The term “make-ready work” refers to all work performed or to be performed to prepare SWBT’s poles, ducts, conduits, rights-of-way, and related facilities for the requested occupancy or attachment of Applicant’s facilities. Make-ready work does not include the actual installation of Applicant’s facilities. “Make-ready work” includes, but is not limited to, clearing obstructions (e.g., by “rodding” ducts to ensure clear passage), and rearranging, transferring, replacing, and removing existing facilities on a pole or in a conduit system where such work is required to accommodate Applicant’s facilities (as contrasted with work performed on SWBT’s behalf in furtherance of SWBT’s own business needs or convenience). “Make-ready work” may require “dig-ups” of existing facilities and may include the repair, enlargement or modification of SWBT’s facilities (including, but not limited to, poles, ducts, conduits, handholes, and manholes), consolidating services into fewer cables, or the performance of other work required to make a pole, anchor, duct, conduit, manhole, handhole, or right-of-way usable for the initial placement of Applicant’s facilities. As used in this Agreement, the term “make-ready work” also includes associated planning and engineering work required to confirm or determine the extent of make-ready work required and to plan make-ready projects.
