{"id":552,"date":"2010-09-14T16:12:44","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T08:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/?p=552"},"modified":"2010-09-22T21:21:39","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T13:21:39","slug":"casual-cleaners-weekend-penalty-rates-local-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/casual-cleaners-weekend-penalty-rates-local-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Casual Cleaners &#038; Weekend Penalty Rates (Local Government)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Aussie-fifties-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Aussie fifties\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Aussie-fifties-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Aussie-fifties-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><span class=\"drop-cap\">C<\/span>leaners working for Local Governments in Western Australia have very flexible working hours as prescribed by the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fwa.gov.au\/consolidated_awards\/AT\/AT788039\/asframe.html\">Municipal Employees (WA) Award 1999.<\/a><\/em>  They can be rostered to work ordinary hours at any time of the day or night on any five days in seven at ordinary rates of pay.  The only exception to this is for ordinary hours that they are rostered to work on a Saturday or a Sunday, when a special loading applies.<\/p>\n<p>It is important to get these payments correct to avoid the possibility of claims for back pay when suddenly you discover that you have been doing it wrong over an extended period of time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Join our discussion and post your comments on our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/bulletin\/topic\/casual-cleaners-and-weekend-penalty-rates\">Bulletin Board<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Award provisions for Cleaners working in Local Government in Western Australia are very flexible and allow employers to roster Cleaners to work ordinary hours at any time of the day or night on any day of the week at ordinary rates, with a couple of exceptions.  Find out what these exceptions are and how to maximise your returns from Cleaning Services.<\/p>\n<a class=\"archives-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/casual-cleaners-weekend-penalty-rates-local-government\/\" title=\"Casual Cleaners &#038; Weekend Penalty Rates (Local Government)\">Continue reading...<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[56,57],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-award-interpretations","category-employee-benefits","tag-casual-cleraners","tag-weekend-penalty-rates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitzgeraldstrategies.com.au\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}