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payment of overtime will be paid an additional one day’s pay, in lieu of the provisions of
paragraph 33.7(b).
Rest Relief in conjunction with Overtime
33.15 Employees who work so much overtime between the termination of their ordinary duty on
one day and the commencement of their ordinary duty on the next day so that they have
not had at least nine consecutive hours off duty between those times, will, subject to this
clause, be released after completion of such overtime until they have had nine consecutive
hours off duty without loss of pay for ordinary working time occurring during such absences
including reasonable travelling time to cover time taken in travelling from and to their places
of employment.
33.16 Provided that if such Employees are required by the Department to resume or continue
work without having had nine consecutive hours off duty including reasonable travelling
time, they will be paid at double rate until they are released from duty for that period and
they will be entitled to be absent until they have had nine consecutive hours off duty
including reasonable travelling time, without loss of pay for ordinary time occurring during
that absence.
33.17 The provisions of clause 33.2 of this Agreement will not apply to overtime worked in the
circumstances covered by clause 4, Emergency duty, of Schedule 2 of this Agreement, unless
the actual time worked is at least three hours on each call.
34. Shift Penalties
34.1 The shift work provisions of this Agreement will not apply to Nurse 6 and above.
34.2 The following shift penalty arrangements will apply to an Employee employed under this
Agreement:
(a)
Afternoon
a penalty rate of 15% will be paid for ordinary time duty shifts between midnight
Sunday and midnight Friday on a shift commencing at or after 12 noon and ceasing after
6.00 p.m.
(b)
Night
a penalty rate of 22.5% will be paid to an Employee whose ordinary time duty shift
commences between the hours of 6 pm on one day and 1 am of the following day;
(c)
Saturday
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NTPS NURSES AND MIDWIVES’ 2011-2014 Enterprise Agreement