Employees may be entitled to a number of different paid and unpaid breaks during an excursion, including:

• meal or tea breaks
• rest breaks between periods of rostered work
• rest breaks after overtime
• between work periods in a broken shift.

Meal and tea breaks

Meal and tea breaks are not affected by an excursion. See Breaks for more information about an employee’s entitlement to meal and tea breaks.

Rest breaks between periods of rostered work

During an excursion employees have to get at least a 10-hour break between finishing work on one shift or work period and starting work on the next shift or work period.

Rest breaks after overtime

Part-time and full-time employees who work overtime should get a minimum break of 10 hours between finishing overtime work on one day or shift and starting work on the next day or shift.

If employees don’t get a 10-hour break between finishing overtime work and starting their next normal shift, they get paid:

• 200% of the ordinary hourly rate of pay for the hours they work, until they have a 10-hour break between shifts
• the ordinary hourly rate of pay for any ordinary hours they don't work because they are taking a 10-hour break between shifts.

See Breaks for more information about rest breaks after overtime and between shifts.

Broken shifts

Broken shift provisions only apply to social and community services employees undertaking disability services work, and home care employees.

These employees may work a broken shift during an excursion and will be entitled to the broken shift allowance.

See Broken shifts in the Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Award for more information about these shifts.