AP806384 - Telstra / CEPU Lines and General (Salaries and Specific Conditions of Employment) Award 2001
12. SHIFT WORK AND OVERTIME ON SHIFT WORK
12.1 An employee employed in a job in Appendix B and C may be required to undertake shift work. The ordinary hours of work of employees required to work shift work will not exceed 36.75 per week, or an average of 36.75 over a cycle of shifts.
12.2 Overtime will be payable to a full-time or part-time employee working in accordance with 12.1 for:
12.2.1 work performed on any day which is beyond the ordinary hours of work for a full-time employee on that day; or
12.2.2 for a part-time employee work performed in excess of 36.75 hour per week.
12.3 For overtime worked in accordance with 12.2.1 and 12.2.2 payment will be at the rate of 150% for the first three hours and 200% thereafter Monday to Friday.
12.4 Break between shifts
Where practicable, shifts will be so arranged that there is a minimum break of ten hours, including reasonable travelling time, between the completion of work on one shift and the commencement of work on the next.
12.5 Notice of roster change
12.5.1 An employee will be given seven days notice of variation to a shift roster. Where seven days notice is not given the employee will be paid at overtime rates (including Higher Duties Allowance) for those hours of the shift that differ from the originally rostered shift. The overtime rates will continue until seven days notice have been given.
12.5.2 The penalty payment will also apply when the employee is returning to his/her original roster until seven days notice of that change is given, unless the initial change of shift was for a definite limited period notified at that time to the employee.
12.5.3 Where the shift change is caused by the absence of another employee, of which Telstra did not have seven days notice, three days notice will apply in lieu of the seven days notice provided in clauses 12.5.1 and 12.5.2.
12.6 Exchange of shifts’
12.6.1 Employees will be allowed to exchange shifts, subject to the approval of the manager.
(Note: Refer also to the provision of clause 10 – Overtime, clause 11 – Overtime minimum payment, clause 15 – Saturday work – shift workers, clause 14 – sunday work, clause 17 – Shift work and clause 12 – Payment for public holiday work – of the GC).
