Comments on: Pizza Hut Surcharge | Penalty Rates for Employees

by: David

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 03:28:19 +0000

Under the old SDA agreement, penalty rates were required to be paid to staff who worked public holidays. When the AWA’s were brought in, most staff were transferred over to the new agreements which do not include penalty rates or overtime, or a lot of the other benefits that were previously provided. Just because you received penalty rates for the last 5 years, that means nothing now the award has changed. I have worked several shifts in various roles (driver, manager), and never received penalty rates in the entire 5 years Ive been with pizza hut.

by: Hellen Atkinson

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 05:57:09 +0000

My 18 year old daughter has worked at Pizza Hut since she was 14 and has never received anything extra for working on Public Holidays including Good Friday.

by: Snappa

Wed, 06 Jun 2007 07:51:23 +0000

Thankyou for the replies. The information has been very helpful to alot of our visitors.

by: chris

Mon, 04 Jun 2007 08:04:17 +0000

I work in the Sydney call center and on public holidays we get paid double time, as should anyone else working under the NSW SDA Award (which should be everyone).

Don’t know about SA though, and I know that during Easter a small minority (like 1 or 2) of Victorian stores were not doing the surcharge. Whether those stores were paying extra on those days, I don’t know.

by: alex

Thu, 31 May 2007 11:14:11 +0000

i am a shift supervisor (manager) and a kitchenhand in a nsw store.
i can tell you now, yes we do get penalty rates on public holidays.
it is the only time this occurs.
staff in this instance may have not been fully informed, but it should be displayed on the roster.
they dont come around too often, so you do notice the difference on your pay slip.
i have worked here for the past four years, and that entire time if i had shifts on public holidays they were payed at double time.

by: Snappa

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:56:16 +0000

Thanks for the information David. I will chase it up further and post my results here.

by: david

Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:45:40 +0000

See below pay info on pizza hut. I had the same concerns. All depends on normal rostering, but I gather most of the young staff don’t really look at or understand their rights. from my understanding they should get double time.

The URL for this is http://www.airc.gov.au/consolidated_awards/at/at792506/asframe.html

AT792506 - Pizza Hut - SDA National Employee Relations Award 2000 [Transitional]

27. PUBLIC HOLIDAYS

27.1 Full-time and part-time employees will be entitled to the following public holidays without loss of pay:

Christmas Day;
Boxing Day;
New Years Day;
Australia Day;
Good Friday;
Easter Saturday (or Show Day in Tasmania);
Easter Monday;
Anzac Day;
Labour Day or Eight Hour Day;
The Birthday of the Reigning Sovereign;
Union Picnic Day as follows:
Tasmania - Hobart Regatta Day (South of Oatlands) or Recreation Day elsewhere;
New South Wales and Victoria - Melbourne Cup Day;
Northern Territory - Picnic Day;
ACT - the first Monday in March;
or such other day as is agreed between the Branch Secretary of the Union and the employer.

27.2 Where throughout a State or Territory public holidays are declared or prescribed on days other than those set out in 27.1 above, those days shall constitute additional holidays for the purpose of this award.

27.3 A full-time employee whose non-working day falls on a public holiday will receive by mutual agreement:

27.3.1 another day off in lieu to be taken within 28 days of the holiday;

27.3.2 an additional day’s pay; or

27.3.3 an extra day added to annual leave.

The above shall not apply to Anzac Day when it falls on a weekend, or to Easter Saturday.

27.4 A part-time employee for whom a public holiday falls on a day of the week that forms part of the employee’s regular roster cycle but is not rostered to work on the holiday shall be entitled to:

27.4.1 another day off in lieu to be taken within 28 days of the holiday;

27.4.2 an additional day’s pay; or

27.4.3 an extra day added to annual leave.

27.5 Where days other than those listed in 27.1 above have special significance due to an employee’s religious or cultural beliefs, the employer and an employee may agree to substitute alternative days.

27.6 Excepting where it has been agreed to change the day a holiday is observed, all work done by weekly employees on any of the holidays prescribed in this clause shall be paid at the rate of double time. Casuals (other than ‘Method B’ delivery drivers) shall receive a total of 200% of the ordinary hourly classification rate for work on the day.

27.7 Where an employee is absent from employment on the working day before or after a public holiday without reasonable excuse or without the consent of the employer, the employee shall lose the entitlement to payment for one public holiday for each day so absent.

27.8 For the purpose of this clause, ‘day’ shall mean the average number of daily hours worked by the employee in the four weeks immediately prior to the day on which the holiday falls.