AN170096 – Silviculture and Afforestation Award

PART V - HOURS OF WORK, PENALTY PAYMENTS AND OVERTIME 

1. HOURS OF WORK

(a) The hours of work in respect of which wages are prescribed in Part III - Wage Rates and Related Matters, Clause 1 - Wage Rates shall be paid shall be 38 per week worked between 5:00 am and 5:00 pm Monday to Friday.

(b) Hours of work shall be arranged in accordance with one or more of the methods set out below:

(i) by employees working less than 8 ordinary hours on each day; or

(ii) by employees working less than 8 ordinary hours on one or more day each week; or

(iii) by fixing one week day on which all employees will be rostered off during a particular work cycle; or

(iv) by rostering employees off on various days of the week during each particular work cycle so that each employee has one week day off during each such cycle; or

(v) by banking the days accrued to be taken as days off in accordance with (iii) and (iv) above to be taken at a time designated by management; or

(vi) by any other method agreed between the employer and employee(s) provided that the ordinary hours of work do not exceed an average of 38 over an agreed and specified work cycle.

(c) Rostered Day Off Falling on Holiday With Pay

(i) An employee entitled to a rostered day shall not have such day off rostered on a holiday as specified in Part VI - Leave and Holidays With Pay, Clause 5 - Holidays With Pay and Holiday Work.

(ii) PROVIDED that in the event that a public holiday is prescribed after notice is given to such employee of the taking of the rostered day off and such public holiday falls on the day the employee is to take off, the employer shall allow the employee to take such day off on an alternative day upon which such employee is normally rostered to work ordinary hours.

(iii) Where an employee is sick or injured on the day rostered off in accordance with this clause the employee shall not be entitled to sick pay nor will the employee’s sick pay entitlement be reduced as a result of such sickness or injury that day.

(d) At each establishment an assessment should be made as to which method of implementation best suits that establishment and the proposal shall be discussed with employees concerned, the objective being to reach agreement on the method of implementation.

(e) Employees may be required to work in excess of 8 ordinary hours per day but not more than 10 ordinary hours per day.

(f) Circumstances may arise where different methods of implementation of the 38 hours week apply to various groups, individuals or sections of employees in the plant or establishment concerned.

(g) Where the method of implementation adopted is in accordance with subclauses (a)(iii), (iv) or (v) of this clause the wages paid each week for ordinary hours shall be paid so that in each week when 40 hours (or more) are worked, the time in excess of 38 hours shall be kept in hand and paid to the employee in the pay week(s) that the rostered day(s) off occur; to enable an averaging of payments for ordinary time to occur over the particular work cycle.