Call Back 10. 2.1 An employee shall be deemed to be on a call back if the employee is recalled to work overtime without receiving notice before ceasing work. 10.2.2 Payment for a call back shall commence from the time the employee departs for work and ceases when the employee arrives home immediately on completion of the work. 10.2.3 An employee who is on a call back shall be paid for a minimum of four (4) hours work at the appropriate overtime rate for each time so recalled. Provided that any subsequent call backs occurring within the four (4) hour period of the original call back shall not attract any additional payment if work is completed within the four hour period. 10.2.4 The minimum payment of four (4) hours shall not apply in cases where the call back is within four (4) hours of the employee’s usual start time. 10.2.5 Where the employee is called back within four (4) hours of the employee’s usual start time penalty rates shall only apply up to the usual starting time, after which ordinary rates of pay will apply. 10.2.6 Where an employee is called back on a public holiday the employee shall be granted time in lieu equivalent to the hours worked up to a maximum number of hours that would have normally been paid to the employee for that public holiday. 10.2.7 When an employee, after having worked overtime, finishes work at a time when reasonable means of transport are not available, Council shall provide the employee with a conveyance to the employee’s home.
