Common use of Hours of Work - Part-time Employees Clause in Contracts

Hours of Work - Part-time Employees. (a) Part-time employment – Part-time employees shall be engaged for a minimum of sixteen hours and a maximum of thirty-eight hours in any one week and shall work on not more than five days in any one week. Part-time employees shall work a minimum of three hours on any one day and a maximum of ten hours on any one day. The hours of work shall not necessarily be continuous subject to clause 6.4 (Meal Breaks and Rest Pauses). (b) A part-time employee shall be paid at the rate of one thirty-eighth of the weekly rate prescribed for the class of work performed. (c) Existing part-time employees employed before this Agreement, who do not work a set number of hours per week, shall be paid at the rate of one thirty-eighth of the weekly rate prescribed for the class of work performed, plus an all purpose loading of ten percent. Such all purpose loading shall not apply to work performed on Saturdays, Sundays, public holidays or overtime. (d) A part-time employee who works in excess of the ordinary daily or weekly hours prescribed in Clause 6.2.1 (a) shall be entitled to be paid overtime in accordance with clause 6.5 (Overtime). (e) Part-time employees shall be entitled to receive pro rata entitlements to annual leave, sick leave, bereavement leave and long service leave in accordance with the provisions contained in this Agreement. Where a part-time employee is normally rostered to work on a day in which a public holiday occurs and the employee is not required to work payment shall be made for the three (3) ordinary hours. (a) All provisions of this Agreement not expressly varied by this clause shall have application to part-time employees.