Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services Award 2010 [MA000115]
Applies from: 01/07/2023
On-call - off duty period
Where an employee is required and rostered by the employer to remain on call and in readiness to be recalled to work after ordinary working hours, the employee will be paid an on-call allowance of $21.80 in respect of any 24 hour period or part thereof during which the employee is on-call during an off duty period.
Notes:
In the event of an employee who is on call being recalled for duty for any period during an off duty period, the employee will be paid from the time of receiving recall until the time of finishing such recall duty, with a minimum of one hour’s payment for such recall at the following rates:
Provided that if the employee is recalled and does not have an uninterrupted break of six hours between midnight and the time of commencement of the next period of ordinary duty, the employee will be entitled to time off of six hours from the time of finishing the last recall to the time of commencing the next period of duty without loss of pay.
$21.80 per 24 hour period or part thereof
This is a type of on-call allowance. You will need to determine if this is part of the employee's ordinary hours or not to determine how to treat it.
Withhold tax from this allowance
If this is part of ordinary hours, it should be included in ordinary times earnings. If it is outside of ordinary hours, it should not be part of ordinary times earnings
Include this allowance for payroll tax purposes
Include this allowance as part of gross wages
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