Minimum Payment for Call Back Overtime Clause Samples
The Minimum Payment for Call Back Overtime clause ensures that employees who are called back to work outside their regular hours receive a guaranteed minimum amount of compensation, regardless of the actual time worked during the call back. Typically, this means that even if the employee is only needed for a short period, they are paid for a set minimum number of hours, such as two or three. This clause protects employees from being inconvenienced for minimal pay and provides predictability in compensation, addressing the issue of fairness when employees are required to return to work unexpectedly.
Minimum Payment for Call Back Overtime. An Employee, recalled to work overtime after leaving the Employer’s business premises or the jobs at which the Employee is engaged, shall be paid for a minimum of four (4) hours’ work at the appropriate rate for each time the Employee is so recalled. This shall not apply where it is customary for an Employee to return to work to perform a specific job outside nominal working hours or where the overtime is continuous (subject to an overtime meal break) with the completion or commencement of nominal working time. Overtime worked as specified in this sub-clause shall not be regarded as overtime for the purposes of the availability for duty provisions as contained in this Agreement, where the actual time worked is less than four hours on such recall.
Minimum Payment for Call Back Overtime. 26.7.1 An Employee, recalled to work overtime after leaving the Employer’s business premises or the jobs at which the Employee is engaged, shall be paid for a minimum of four (4) hours’ work at the appropriate rate for each time the Employee is so recalled.
26.7.2 Overtime worked as specified in this sub-clause shall not be regarded as overtime for the purposes of the availability for duty provisions as contained in this Agreement, where the actual time worked is less than four hours on such recall.
26.7.3 This sub-clause does not apply where an Employee, who is called back to a job that the Employee was working on that day and, an after hours problem has occurred as a result of their work at that job that day. In this case, the Employee shall only be paid for the actual time (at the appropriate overtime penalty rate of pay) taken to remedy the problem.