Offer and Acceptance of Weekend Overtime (a) The Employer is committed to providing reasonable notice to Employees of an offer / cancellation of weekend overtime. To this end, notice will generally be provided prior to the normal meal break on Thursday. Where the Employer is unable to give such notice the Employer may offer I cancel such overtime by notifying affected Employees before the finish time of ordinary hours on Friday.
(b) Overtime will be offered on a work required basis.
(c) Employees who accept an offer of weekend overtime will be obliged to attend. However, Employees may find themselves unable to fulfil their commitment to attend site. Such Employees will notify the Employer before the planned finishing time on Friday.
(d) An Employee may refuse to work weekend overtime if the requirement to do so is plainly unreasonable having regard to:
(i) the hours of work that will be worked by that Employee in the week of the weekend overtime;
(ii) the amount of weekend overtime worked by the Employee within the previous six weeks;
(iii) the Employee’s family responsibilities; and
(iv) any other special circumstances peculiar to the Employee.
