Under this award as a Casual Level 1:
Sunday - Not Shiftworker (finish before 7pm): $53.93
Sunday - Shiftworker (finish after 7pm): $41.95
Am I reading this correctly?
Sunday Rate Drops after 7pm?
jayz on 20/08/2023 - 21:59
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From the Fair Work site:
'An employee is a shiftworker whenever they work their ordinary hours during a shift that finishes between 7pm and 7am.
This means that an employee can switch between being a shiftworker and a non-shiftworker from shift to shift, depending on when they finish their ordinary hours.'I read that as a shiftworker is someone who finishes between 7pm and 7am. If I have a 2pm - 8pm shift, that means I am considered a shift worker for that day?
They'll need to pay me more than that to work with shit.
I used to work with customers for less.
can only assume the non shift is getting full penalty rates and its a rolling shift on a flat rate for normal hours
Depends on your industry and companies EBA?
Theres not enough information in your post to give a definitive answer unless your real question is: what is the difference between shift workers and normal workers pay.
Share the award and I'll look at it and answer. Yes, it sounds like you're reading it right but without the rest of the award, I don't want to say definitively.
It is bonkers to me but yes, I agree with how you've interpreted it. That award is so convoluted in itself! My only question would be, is the term 'ordinary hours' for the casual. I believe shift work acrues up to an additional weeks leave per year (obviously not for casual tho). Just check the definition of casual (it's not in the award) just in case it specifies what is deemed by 'ordinary hours' as the award references this term a lot for the shift work explanation.
It doesn't make sense but at only about $7 more ph than a ft or pt staff member, it's not great at all.
Who knows, maybe it's there to preference ft and pt staff? Anyway if you're in the union, ask. I would be pushing for the early shifts.
Company I once worked at had there own interpretation of shift work - it was presented the same as OP but they would pay the shift rate only for the hours worked in that span.
eg if you finished 1 hr after 7pm then you received the shift rate for the single hour rather than the full shift.That is how I understand it as well, but it just doesnt make sense that the rate drops after 7pm on a Sunday evening? I would think it'd go up not down.
There are many weird intricacies in awards, just like this. Don't expect it to make sense, it's Australia's complex industrial relations system.
Every other company that I had worked for would pay shift rates based on the start or finish time (depends on how the specific award was worded) ie if your start or finish time was within the defined range for a shift that meant the whole worked time was a shift, not just the couple of hours outside the specific ones.
Shift workers probably have an additional loading added separately.
$41.95 applies if you're a shitworker.