How are casual overtime payments calculated?
An employee who works overtime as a result of a requirement to remain on duty at an operational incident shall be paid as follows: • Each period of overtime shall be treated separately. • In respect of the first overtime hour no payment shall be made for any period less than 15 minutes. • A period of 15 minutes or more and up to one hour shall be treated as one hour. • Where the period exceeds one hour, payment shall be made for complete periods of 15 minutes. Payments shall be at time and a half or double time on a public holiday. An example of how this would be applied to both fulltime and those on the retained duty system when attending an emergency incident is shown below: Assuming that (a) the incident/call-out commenced at 08.00 and (b) that the fulltime firefighters shift was scheduled to finish at 09.00.
