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Trades & Services Staff - Catering & Retail, Cleaning & Caretaking, & Miscellaneous Services Staff) 2000Contact
  

Enterprise Bargaining Agreement
(Trades & Services Staff - Catering & Retail, Cleaning & Caretaking, & Miscellaneous Services Staff) 2000

Part 3 - Conditions applying to catering and retail staff

Section 3 - Catering Staff Only

  1. Meal and Rest Breaks for Staff other than Monash Residential Services Accommodation Units Catering Staff, Retail
    Staff, and Tea Attendants
  2. Overtime for Full-time Catering Staff
  3. Shift Allowance for Catering Staff (other than Monash Residential Services Accommodation Units Catering Staff
    and Tea Attendants)
  4. Accommodation for Catering Staff other than Monash Residential Services Accommodation Units Catering Staff
    and Tea Attendants
  5. Work Equipment and Materials for Catering Staff other than Tea Attendants

This Part shall apply to all trades and services staff engaged in catering and/or retail services (including Tea Attendants) but does not extend to Sports Control Desk staff employed within the Sports and Recreation Centre on Clayton Campus.

75. MEAL AND REST BREAKS FOR STAFF OTHER THAN MONASH RESIDENTIAL SERVICES ACCOMMODATION UNITS CATERING STAFF, RETAIL STAFF, AND TEA ATTENDANTS

75.1 An unpaid daily meal break of not less than 30 minutes and not more than an hour shall be taken during ordinary hours as prescribed in clause 76 of this Agreement where a staff member is required to work more than 5 hours in a day. Time taken as meal breaks shall not be paid for and shall not be counted as time worked.

A staff member shall not be required to work for more than 5 hours continuously without a meal break. However, a staff member may elect to work up to six consecutive hours without such a break for a meal.

75.2 Where it is not possible to grant the meal break on any day, the said meal break shall be treated as time worked and paid at the rate for the day plus half-time additional on the basis of the staff member's ordinary time earnings, until released for a meal. Provided that where a staff member is required to exceed five hours work after the first meal break he/she shall be granted a further meal break of 20 minutes to be treated as time worked.

75.3 Notwithstanding the provisions of clause 75.1 hereof, staff members rostered to work more than ten ordinary hours in a shift shall be entitled to two paid 20 minutes rest breaks in addition to an unpaid meal break of at least half an hour. In rostering for these breaks, the University shall make all reasonable efforts to provide these breaks at a time which gives the staff member an even mix of work time and breaks.

75.4 Where a staff member is required to work overtime and such overtime follows the completion of the staff member's normal hours of work a 20 minutes paid meal break shall be allowed where such overtime exceeds two hours work.

76. OVERTIME FOR FULL-TIME CATERING STAFF

For the purposes of the overtime provisions of this Agreement, the standard day for all full-time catering staff members covered by this Part who work an average 38-hour week over a nineteen-day month with a rostered day off in each four-week cycle shall be deemed to be eight ordinary hours.

77. SHIFT ALLOWANCE FOR CATERING STAFF (OTHER THAN MONASH RESIDENTIAL SERVICES ACCOMMODATION UNITS CATERING STAFF AND TEA ATTENDANTS)

Any staff member required to work any of his or her ordinary hours outside the hours of 7.00am to 7.00pm on Mondays to Fridays inclusive shall be paid:

  • $1.27 per hour or part thereof where such work is performed after 7.00pm and up to midnight; or
  • $1.82 per hour or part thereof where such work is performed after midnight and up to 7.00am,

with a minimum payment of $1.93 for any one day.

78. ACCOMMODATION FOR CATERING STAFF OTHER THAN MONASH RESIDENTIAL SERVICES ACCOMMODATION UNITS CATERING STAFF AND TEA ATTENDANTS

Adequate accommodation apart from rooms to which the public have access shall be provided for dressing, and reasonable accommodation shall be provided for staff members to have their meals.

79. WORK EQUIPMENT AND MATERIALS FOR CATERING STAFF OTHER THAN TEA ATTENDANTS

The University will provide all necessary work equipment and materials (including tools) to the satisfaction of the local shop steward, the kitchen supervisor, and:

  • the Chief Executive Officer, Monash Unicomm Pty Ltd in the case of Monash Unicomm catering staff; or
  • the Director, Monash Residential Services in the case of Monash Residential Services Accommodation Units catering staff.