Common use of Rest Relief after Overtime Clause in Contracts

Rest Relief after Overtime. 36.1 In this clause employee refers to employees other than casual employees. 36.2 Unless the Chief Executive directs an employee to report for duty earlier, the employee must have a continuous period of eight hours off duty between ceasing overtime duty following normal duty one day, and commencing normal daily hours of work the following day. 36.3 An employee is entitled to be absent from duty, without loss of salary, until the employee has been off duty for a continuous period of eight hours. For this purpose, an employee is considered to be on duty while travelling to and from the workplace. 36.4 If an employee is required by the Chief Executive to return to duty without having had eight consecutive hours off duty, plus reasonable travelling time, the employee must: (a) be paid at 200% of the ordinary hourly rate of pay until the employee is released from duty for that period; and (b) the employee will then be entitled to be absent until the employee has had eight consecutive hours off duty plus reasonable travelling time, without loss of pay for any ordinary working time occurring during that absence. 36.5 The provisions of clauses 36.1 to 36.4 do not apply to overtime worked in the circumstances covered by Xxxxxx 41 Emergency Duty unless the actual time worked (excluding travelling time) is at least three hours on each call.