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Overtime rate

Overtime rates for nurses and midwives in the public sector

Monday to Friday

Flat Rate x 1½ - For additional hours worked between start of normal day duty and midnight

Flat Rate x 2 - For additional hours worked between midnight and start of normal day duty

Saturday

Flat Rate x 1½ - For additional hours worked overtime will be paid at 1½ for the first four hours

Flat Rate x 2 - For additional hours worked in excess of the first four hours

Sunday

Flat Rate x 2 - For all additional hours worked

In accordance with the Agreement on Flexible Working in the Health Service, nurses/midwives who work reduced hours are entitled to earn overtime payments for additional hours worked in certain circumstances.  The following are some examples:

I. A nurse/midwife working in a department/unit with a three or four shift cycle would be eligible for overtime payment were they to work a full normal shift and were then requested to work additional hours outside the span of the shift.

II. A nurse/midwife working mornings only (8am-1pm) in a department/unit where the normal shift is 8am-4pm would be paid at flat time if requested by their employer to work from 1pm-4pm.  If asked to work from 1pm-6pm (having started at 8am) the hours from 4pm-6pm would attract payment at overtime rates.  (This would apply whether the nurse/midwife had worked the hours 1pm-4pm.)  In circumstances where a 12-hour shift applies payment would be at flat-time for any additional hours worked with the span of the shift.

III. A nurse/midwife working a ‘week on – week off’ arrangement would be eligible for overtime payment if requested by their employer to work on their rostered days off, i.e. to work more than the full-time hours for the grade.  They would be eligible for payment at flat-time if requested by their employer to work their usual hours or a normal shift during their ‘week off’.  (Agreement on Flexible Working in the Health Service).