Part-time employees get paid a 15% allowance when working:

• on weekends
• ordinary hours, including on a public holiday
• early morning, afternoon or non-permanent night shifts.

See Shift penalty rates in the Cleaning Award for more information about early morning, afternoon or non-permanent night shifts.

Example

Jimmy works part-time. He is rostered to work 6 ordinary hours on a public holiday.

For all hours that he works, Jimmy gets paid 265% of his minimum hourly rate. This includes:

• 15% part-time allowance
• 250% public holiday penalty rate.

When the allowance isn’t paid

Part-time employees don’t get paid the 15% allowance when they are:

• working overtime
• working permanent night shifts
• not working on a public holiday but are paid for the hours they would normally work.

See Shift penalty rates in the Cleaning Award for more information about permanent night shifts.

Example

Scarlett is a permanent night shiftworker. She works part-time.

Scarlett gets paid 130% of her minimum hourly rate when she works.

She doesn’t get paid the 15% part-time allowance as well as the permanent night shift penalty rate.

Payment during leave

The 15% allowance is only paid during a period of annual leave if the employee works:

• shiftwork (Monday to Friday), or
• rostered ordinary hours on a Saturday or Sunday.

The allowance isn’t paid during other periods of leave. This includes personal/carer’s leave, compassionate leave or community service leave for jury duty.

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