Higher Education Industry-General Staff-Award 2010 - Business SA

Higher Education Industry—General Staff—Award 201022. Breaks22.1 Meal breakAn employee will not be required to work more than five consecutive hours withouta meal break of at least half an hour. Time taken as meal breaks will not be paid forand will not be counted as time worked.22.2 Rest breakEmployees, other than PACCT staff, are entitled to two 10 minute paid breaks perday.23. Overtime23.1 An employee will be paid overtime for all authorised work performed outside of, orin excess of, the ordinary or rostered hours as follows:Time workedMonday – SaturdayOvertime rate150% of the ordinary rate of pay for the first twohours (first three hours for PACCT staff); and200% of the ordinary rate of pay thereafterSunday200% of the ordinary rate of payPublic holidays250% of the ordinary rate of pay24. Employee recalled to dutyAn employee recalled to work overtime which is not continuous with their ordinary hours ofduty must be paid a minimum of two hours at the appropriate overtime rate.25. Minimum break following overtimeAn employee who has worked overtime will be given a minimum break of ten hours betweenthe end of one period of duty and the beginning of the next. A staff member required by anemployer to resume or continue to work without having a ten hour break off duty is entitled tobe absent from duty without loss of pay until a ten hour break has been taken, or be paid at200% of the ordinary rate until released from duty.26. Time off instead of overtime payment26.1 An employee will be paid overtime or provided with time off instead of overtimepayment for all authorised work performed outside of, or in excess of, the ordinary orrostered hours as follows:(a)An HEW 6 or below will be eligible to receive paid overtime or, whererequested by the employee and approved by the employer, may take time offMA000007 25