Auto-meal break

19.1

Minimum shift engagement

11.4

12.1

27.1

27.3(c)(ii)

26.7

Part time: 3 hours per shift

Casual: 4 hours per shift

Dayworkers:

• Saturday, Sunday, and Public Holiday (Ordinary or Overtime): 3 hours

Shiftworker

• Sundays for Pulp and Paper stream: 4 hours (unless work is immediately following or preceding Saturday or Monday)

Work on rostered day off: 3 hours.

Crib time

19.4

Paid at ordinary hourly rate:

• Outside ordinary hours:

  • Crib time after working ordinary hours and before working overtime

• Saturdays

  • Day worker on a 5-day week, 1st crib time is paid at ordinary ‌rates.

• Sundays and Public Holidays

  • • • Day worker on a 5-day week - 1st crib time is paid at ordinary rates.

• More than 2 hours; paid a higher rate for the day
• Less than 2 hours; paid higher at the time worked.

• Not on standby: minimum of 4 hours
• On standby: minimum of 3 hours.

26.4(a)

26.4(b)

(Pulp and Paper Stream)

Paid 4 hours’ ordinary pay

Paid at the ordinary hourly rate until transport is available.

28.6(a)(i)

28.6(a)(ii)

Day worker: 

• Other than Pulp and Paper Stream: 17.5%

• Pulp and Paper Stream: 20%

Shiftworker:

• Higher of leave loading or penalties.

33.3(a)

33.4(b)

Rostered day off falling on public holiday

• 7.6 hours of pay at the ordinary time rate;

• 7.6 hours of extra annual leave.

Holidays falling upon days employees not working

• a day’s paid leave to be added to annual leave; or
• an additional day’s wage (PHNW)

12.2(b)

12.3

• A loading of 25% of the ordinary hourly rate

• Overtime based on their ordinary rate of pay including the loading.

14.3(e)

14.3(b)

14.3(d)

If an employee is required to remain on duty for a work period in excess of 16 hours, the employee will, at the conclusion of the work period, be entitled to be paid 8 hours at ordinary rates as a paid rest period.

14.3(e)

• Monday-Friday:

  • First 2 hours at 150% ordinary hourly rate then 200% of the ordinary hourly rate thereafter (including time worked prior to firefighting work).

14.3(f)

14.3(g)

Sunday:

• 200% of the ordinary hourly rate (Permanent)

• 225% of the ordinary hourly rate (Casual)

Public Holiday:

• 250% of the ordinary hourly rate (Permanent)

• 275% of the ordinary hourly rate (Casual).

14.3(h)

14.3(i)

14.3(o)(i)

14.3(p)

13.5

13.11

Rostered day off not to coincide with public holiday

Need to customise rules

An employee working continuous shiftwork who by the arrangement of ordinary hours of work is entitled to a rostered shift off which falls on a public holiday prescribed by the NES, or clause 33—Public holidays will at the discretion of the employer, be paid 20% of the ordinary weekly rate of pay for that day or have an additional day added to the annual leave entitlement. This provision will not apply when the public holiday on which the employee is rostered off falls on a Saturday or Sunday.

Substitute days

Need to customise rules

An employer and an individual employee, or the employer and a majority of affected employees, may agree to substitute the day the employee or affected employees are to take off during a work cycle for another day.

Make-up time

Need to customise rules

Shiftwork make-up time paid at shiftwork rate applicable to hours taken off.

Alteration of meal breaks

Need to customise rules

In any establishment where the ordinary hours of work are worked on the basis of 4 days of 8 ordinary hours each and one day of 6 ordinary hours in a weekly work cycle, the employer and the majority of affected employees may agree that the 6 ordinary hour day may be worked without a meal break.

Payment by results - wood and timber furniture stream

Need to create Pay Rate Templates and Employment Agreements.

An employer may remunerate any of their employees, engaged under the classifications in the Wood and Timber Furniture Stream, under any system of payment by results based on rates which would enable a worker of average capacity working under conditions to earn at least 12.5% in excess of the appropriate minimum weekly rate prescribed by this award for an adult employee.

Supported wage system

National training wage

Meal allowance - overtime

Sunday allowance—Pulp and Paper Stream

Need to customise rules

Shiftworker

• In consideration of the Sunday overtime required in the industry, an employee who works not less than 8 hours on a Sunday outside the employee’s ordinary hours of work prescribed in this award and has worked not less than 8 hours on either of the immediately preceding 2 Sundays outside such ordinary hours will be paid in respect of the first-mentioned Sunday a special allowance of 4 hours’ pay at ordinary time.

Substitution of public holidays by agreement

Need to customise rules

(a) An employer and employee may agree to substitute another day for a day that would otherwise be a public holiday under the NES.

(b) An employer and employee may agree to substitute another part-day for a part-day that would otherwise be a part-day public holiday under the NES.

Remuneration

Piecework - sleepers - loading and turning

Need to customise rules

Sleepers are turned for inspection or reinspection, the loaders will receive turning rates whilst turning sleepers and loading rates whilst loading those sleepers.

Piecework—General Timber Stream Measurement of logs

Need to customise rules

All logs felled or hauled at piecework rates will be measured or weighed at the mill landing or elsewhere by agreement.

Piecework — Subsistence allowance

Need to customise rules

Where logs are stockpiled in excess of 14 days in the bush the pieceworkers affected may be paid, by agreement, a subsistence allowance based on the estimated tonnage of the logs in the pieceworkers’ pile agreed to between the pieceworkers and the employer.

Select this shift condition when handling or cutting charred timber.

Select this shift condition for hours engaged in cleaning of boilers and associated equipment allowance.

Select this shift condition when working for more than one hour in an environment where the temperature is below 0°C.

Select this shift condition for hours worked in a confined spaces.

Select this shift condition for Dayworkers transitioning to Shiftwork , provided they received at least 7 days' notice of the shift change. If the shiftwork transition coincides with the start of a new pay cycle, these employees should be assigned the "Shiftworker" tag instead.

Select this shift condition when the work performed is of an unusually dirty or offensive nature.

Select this shift condition when an employee holds a first aid certificate and is eligible for a weekly allowance after working 3 days or more

Select this shift condition when required to work at a relevant height.

Select this shift condition when working for more than one hour in an environment where the temperature is between 46°C and 54°C.

Select this shift condition when working for more than one hour in an environment where the temperature is more than 54°C.

Select this shift condition if an employee resumes work without having the 10 consecutive hours rest period following overtime.

Select this shift condition when a shiftworker’s shift has been changed resulting in less than 8 hours of break between shifts.

Select this shift condition when working overtime for 2 hours or more and no meal is provided. If the overtime exceeds 6 hours, employee will receive an additional meal allowance.

Select this shift condition when there is no minimum shift or daily engagement requirement.

Select this shift condition when an employee is engaged on alterations and/or repairs inside an incinerator or lime-kiln, the gas or water space of any boiler, flue, precipitator or economiser.

Select this shift condition if the employee elects to accrue time in lieu rather than be paid overtime for a shift.

Select this shift condition for hours working in a location where their clothing or boots become saturated, whether by water, oil, or other substances.

Select this shift condition when an employee is working during meal break.

Time off instead of payment for overtime

c)Time off must be taken:

within the period of 6 months after the overtime is worked; and

at a time or times within that period of 6 months agreed by the employee and employer.

(d) If the employee requests at any time, to be paid for overtime covered by an agreement under clause 26.15 but not taken as time off, the employer must pay the employee for the overtime, in the next pay period following the request, at the overtime rate applicable to the overtime when worked.

(e) If time off for overtime that has been worked is not taken within the period of 6 months mentioned in clause 26.15(c), the employer must pay the employee for the overtime, in the next pay period following those 6 months, at the overtime rate applicable to the overtime when worked.

Sunday allowance—Pulp and Paper Stream

The system will not be able to automatically consider previous Sunday work. Workaround is by the use of work type.

In consideration of the Sunday overtime required in the industry, an employee who works not less than 8 hours on a Sunday outside the employee’s ordinary hours of work prescribed in this award and has worked not less than 8 hours on either of the immediately preceding 2 Sundays outside such ordinary hours will be paid in respect of the first-mentioned Sunday a special allowance of 4 hours’ pay at ordinary time.

Make-up time

Shiftworker takes time off during ordinary hours and works those hours at a later time at the shiftwork rate.

Additional allowances for engine drivers/firemen

Except as to dragline excavators and tractors these additional rates will not be cumulative to the extent of increasing the minimum rate of an employee above the classification Level 5.

Crib time

Where a day worker on a 5 day week is required to work overtime on a Saturday, Sunday, or Public Holiday the first prescribed crib time will, if occurring between 10.00 am and 1.00 pm, be paid at ordinary rates.

The crib time paid at ordinary rates can be recorded at any point during overtime. It is the responsibility of both the employee and employer to ensure it is entered at the correct and relevant time.