Shift start and end times

Shifts must be continuous (subject to broken shifts) and the starting and finishing times of your employees’ ordinary hours must be completed at the actual job or work station.

However, your employees start and finish work at the time that they pick up and drop off equipment when:

• your employee is required to collect or return business equipment (such as car or keys) to a location other than the actual work site (such as a depot), and
• the collection and/or return of the equipment adds more than 15 minutes to the time they would normally have spent travelling between work and home.

Note:  Your security employees may be rostered to work ordinary hours in up to 2 periods of duty per day, with a minimum payment of 3 hours for each period of duty. In such instances your employees will be entitled to a broken shift allowance which is paid at 1.62% of the standard rate. For more information about calculating allowances that are based in the standard rate, visit the Allowances page.