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9th February, 2021
Ambulance Victoria Enterprise Agreement – Unsociable Shift Incentive – now in effect
The Victorian Ambulance Union Incorporated would like to draw members attention the following clause of the Ambulance Victoria Enterprise Agreement 2020 which came into effect from 1 February 2021:
46. UNSOCIABLE SHIFT INCENTIVE
46.1 Operational employees will be paid the unsociable shift incentive in Appendix 9. The incentive payment is a fixed sum paid to employees that work and complete a normal rostered shift that is six hours or more in length, which commences on a Friday, Saturday or Sunday and finishes between 0100 and 0800 hours the following day.
The incentive payment in clause 46.1 does not apply to:
(a) Casual employees;
(b) Employees that are working an overtime shift and being paid the rates of pay in accordance with clause 45.3;
(c) Employees working rostered on-call in accordance with clause 47;
(d) Employees that do not work or complete the normal rostered shift due to personal leave.
46.3 Operational employees working rostered on-call will be paid an unsociable hours’ on-call allowance for each hour of rostered on-call in accordance with Appendix 9. The incentive is paid each hour that the employee is rostered to an on-call period commencing after 1800 hours on a Friday, Saturday and Sunday and finishing between 0100 and 0800 hours the following day. The unsociable hours’ on-call allowance set out in Appendix 9 is paid in lieu of the on-call hours allowance in clause 47.