Imrah wrote on Jul 1
st, 2018 at 4:37pm:
Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Jul 1
st, 2018 at 4:35pm:
What you are talking about Imrah is overtime. What greggory is talking about is penalty rates. You need to discuss the same thing to have a conversation.
Spot
Overtime and penalty rates are the very same thing. They are for fulltimers. Casuals get a 20% loading for doing the 'unsocial' hours.
Sorry but you are very wrong, I will attempt to explain it for you.
Overtime is paid for working additional hours after the weekly or daily hours have been completed.
i.e. if working 7.6 hours per day and are asked to work an additional two hours that would be overtime.
As would being asked to work on a Saturday if you had already worked 38 hours that week.
Overtime is hours in excess of the weekly normal hours (38 in Australia).
In the case of penalty rates they are paid when you work outside of normal hours as part of your normal weekly hours. normal hours are often around 7am to 6 pm on Monday to Friday. this is as a part of your normal hours of duty and done on a rostered basis.
This means that you work 38 hours in the week but all or some of them fall between 6pm and 7 am Monday to Friday or at any time on a Saturday / Sunday. This is not overtime as you only worked your normal 38 hour week it is payed as penalty rates.
I hope that this clarifies your confusion, a bit.