Allowance Description

On-call - public holiday

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.

The on call allowance will be $43.60 in respect of any 24 hour period or part thereof on any public holiday or part thereof.

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:

• within a spread of 12 hours from the commencement of the last period of ordinary duty—time and a half;
• outside a spread of 12 hours from the commencement of the last period of ordinary duty—double time; or
• on days observed as public holidays—double time.

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.