Limits on hours. Preamble: The parties acknowledge that how work is organised within the service is important to (a) Ensuring that RMOs can safely deliver high quality health care to patients and communities as part of a medical and broader clinical team; (b) Managing the personal and professional risks to the RMO from fatigue, and maintaining the RMO’s work-life balance; (c) Ensuring necessary training opportunities to facilitate the RMO to progress into or through their vocational training within the generally accepted timeframes. Services should be organised to ensure the most appropriate balance of these drivers. The parties acknowledge that the various vocational colleges or regulatory bodies (such as the Medical Council of New Zealand) may from time to time issue advice or guidelines on the expectation of working hours of trainees to ensure the safe and effective training of RMOs and may make specific or general recommendations as part of their accreditation processes of individual DHB training programmes. Further, the parties acknowledge the role of the Colleges as the appropriate professional authority on the issues of safe and effective medical training and care and commit to working towards meeting such advice, guidelines or recommendations as a matter of priority. 17.1 Weekly on duty hours limits (services other than EDs and ICUs) 17.1.1 The parties will work collaboratively to create rosters with a maximum average of 60 rostered hours per week averaged over a 4 week period. 17.1.2 Individual RMOs should not be rostered to work more than 72 hours in any consecutive seven days. 17.1.3 Where the requirement of 17.1.2 is not met, and the RMO is rostered on duty in excess of 72 hours in any seven day period, then they shall receive a payment of $550 for that period providing that. 17.1.4 Where the RMO is required to work in excess of 144 hours in a period of 14 consecutive days, then they shall receive a payment of $1,000. For the purpose of this clause “required” means required by the demands of the service and, for clarity, includes unrostered time on duty. Again, to be eligible for this payment they shall notify the appropriate manager to allow alternative arrangements to be made, when it comes to the RMOs’ attention that s/he may break this limit. 17.2 Daily On-Duty Hours Limits (Services other than EDs and ICUs)
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Samples: Multi Employer Collective Agreement, Multi Employer Collective Agreement, Multi Employer Collective Agreement
