If an apprentice or trainee attends college for 40 hours per week and the award stipulates a 38-hour week, is there an entitlement to 2 hours overtime?
No. All time spent attending college is paid for at ordinary rates. The entitlement would be for 40 ordinary hours pay. Overtime would be applicable only if the apprentice or trainee performed additional work for the employer over and above the college attendance and the combined hours were greater than the ordinary hours of the award. For further information about paying apprentices undertaking training fact sheet. Please telephone Wageline on 1300 369 945 if you have any other enquiries regarding payment for supervised training.
