❓ The Minister for Health confirms that 324 double shifts were worked by nurses at Albany Health Campus in the 2023-24 financial year, representing less than 1% of total shifts.
AnsweredQoN 2076Legislative Council
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Can the Minister advise how many double shifts have been
worked by nurses at the Albany Health Campus in the 2023-24 financial year?
worked by nurses at the Albany Health Campus in the 2023-24 financial year?
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Answered
17 September 2024
Responded by
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health
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9 days
A double shift occurs when an employee works two consecutive standard working hour shifts, with a break between the two shifts. The average length of shift is dependent on the clinical area need.
Consistent with the WA Health Australian Nursing Federation - Registered Nurses, Midwives, Enrolled (Mental Health) And Enrolled (Mothercraft) Nurses - Industrial Agreement 2022; the ordinary hours worked in any one day will be a maximum of eight hours, unless an agreement to vary the hours and roster has been made in accordance with Clause 28 – Flexibility in Hours and Rostering of the above Agreement.
Further, for all authorised overtime worked by a full-time employee in excess of their rostered ordinary hours of work outside the ordinary hours of their shift Monday to Saturday inclusive, payment will be made at the rate of time and a half for the first three hours and double time thereafter.
For all authorised overtime worked on a Sunday by a full-time employee payment will be made at the rate of double time. For all authorised overtime worked on a public holiday by a full-time employee payment will be made at the rate of double time and a half.
324 double shifts were undertaken in the 2023-24 financial year. This represents less than one percent of the approximately 43,000 shifts undertaken at Albany Health Campus annually.
Consistent with the WA Health Australian Nursing Federation - Registered Nurses, Midwives, Enrolled (Mental Health) And Enrolled (Mothercraft) Nurses - Industrial Agreement 2022; the ordinary hours worked in any one day will be a maximum of eight hours, unless an agreement to vary the hours and roster has been made in accordance with Clause 28 – Flexibility in Hours and Rostering of the above Agreement.
Further, for all authorised overtime worked by a full-time employee in excess of their rostered ordinary hours of work outside the ordinary hours of their shift Monday to Saturday inclusive, payment will be made at the rate of time and a half for the first three hours and double time thereafter.
For all authorised overtime worked on a Sunday by a full-time employee payment will be made at the rate of double time. For all authorised overtime worked on a public holiday by a full-time employee payment will be made at the rate of double time and a half.
324 double shifts were undertaken in the 2023-24 financial year. This represents less than one percent of the approximately 43,000 shifts undertaken at Albany Health Campus annually.
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