FAIR WORK ACT 2009 - SECT 196 Shiftworkers

FAIR WORK ACT 2009 - SECT 196

Application of this section

  (1)   This section applies if:

  (a)   an employee is covered by an enterprise agreement; and

  (b)   a modern award that is in operation and covers the employee defines or describes the employee as a shiftworker for the purposes of the National Employment Standards.

Shiftworkers and the National Employment Standards

  (2)   The FWC must be satisfied that the agreement defines or describes the employee as a shiftworker for the purposes of the National Employment Standards.

Note:   Section   87 provides an employee with an entitlement to 5 weeks of paid annual leave if an enterprise agreement that applies to the employee defines or describes the employee as a shiftworker for the purposes of the National Employment Standards.