AN170096 – Silviculture and Afforestation Award

3. REST PERIOD AFTER OVERTIME DUTY

(a) When overtime work is necessary it shall, wherever reasonably practicable, be so arranged that employees have at least ten consecutive hours off duty between the work of successive days.

(b) An employee who works so much overtime between the termination of his ordinary work on one day and the commencement of his ordinary work on the next day so that he/she has not had at least ten consecutive hours off duty between those times shall, subject to this clause, be released after completion of such overtime until he/she has had ten consecutive hours off duty without loss of pay for ordinary working time occurring during such absence. If, on the instructions of his employer, such an employee resumes or continues work without having had such ten consecutive hours off duty he/she shall be paid at double rates until he/she is released from duty for such period and he/she shall then be entitled to be absent until he/she has had ten consecutive hours off duty without loss of pay for ordinary working time occurring during such absence.

(c) The provisions of this clause shall apply as if eight hours were substituted for ten hours when overtime is worked for the purpose of fire fighting.