Recording of Hours - Associates Award |
Under the Industrial Relations Act 1996 (NSW), the Department is required to maintain records of the hours worked by its employees. The minimum statutory requirement which will apply to associates is to maintain records of the number of hours worked by each associate, each week. In other words, associates will be required by the Department to record their total weekly hours.
As stated, this is the minimum statutory requirement and cannot be avoided.
The PSA is contemplating the inclusion of a condition in the Associates Award which will require associates and the Department to maintain a record of the daily hours worked by each associate.
The benefit of maintaining a record of the daily hours of work is that there is record indicating whether associates are working unreasonable, unsafe or excessive working hours, on a daily basis. It is also orthodox in the public service. The downside is that it is more administratively burdensome than maintaining a record of the weekly hours worked.