Calculation of weekly wage rates (RDO System a) An employee in any particular week of a work cycle shall be paid wages on the basis of an average of 36 ordinary hours per week in each work cycle so as to avoid fluctuations in the employees weekly pay.
b) Under the averaging system, the employee accrues a ‘credit’ each day the employee works actual ordinary hours in excess of the daily average, which would otherwise be 7 hours and 12 minutes (7.2 hours).
c) An employee will not accrue a credit for each day the employee is absent from duty other than on any form of approved leave (annual leave, purchased annual leave, Employer provided long service leave, public holidays, TOIL days, paid sick leave and personal leave etc.), bereavement leave or jury service.
d) An employee who is absent from duty for part of a day shall lose average pay for each hour or part thereof the employee is absent from duty at an hourly rate calculated by dividing the employee’s average daily pay rate by 8.
e) Provided that when such an employee is absent from duty for a whole day the employee will not accrue a ‘credit’ as the employee would not have worked ordinary hours that day in excess of 7 hours 12 minutes for which the employee would otherwise have been paid. The amount by which an employee’s average gross weekly rate of pay will be reduced when the employee is absent from duty (on other than an authorised absence) is to be calculated as follows: total of credits not accrued during cycle multiplied by the average weekly pay and divided by 36 hours.
