Additional Hours of Work. (a) Any work done beyond 38 hours per week or more than an average of 38 hours per week is defined as Additional Hours. (b) The Employer may require the employee to work Additional Hours. (c) The employee must not be required to work unreasonable Additional Hours. For the purposes of determining whether Additional Hours that the employee is required or requested by the Employer to work are reasonable additional hours, all relevant factors must be taken into account. Those factors may include, but are not limited to, the following: (i) any risk to the employee’s health and safety that might reasonably be expected to arise if the employee worked the additional hours; (ii) the employee’s personal circumstances (including family responsibilities); (iii) the operational requirements of the workplace, or enterprise, in relation to which the employee is required or requested to work the additional hours; (iv) any notice given by the Employer of the requirement or request that the employee work the additional hours; (v) any notice given by the employee of the employee’s intention to refuse to work the additional hours; (vi) whether any of the additional hours are on a public holiday; (vii) the employee’s hours of work over the 4 weeks ending immediately before the employee is required or requested to work the additional hours.
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Samples: Employee Collective Agreement, Employee Collective Agreement, Employee Collective Agreement
