What are the hours for night shift

Staff who regularly work at least 3 hours during the ‘night period’ are night workers.

The night period is 11pm to 6am, unless the worker and employer agree a different night period.

If they do, it must be 7 hours long and include midnight to 5am. It must be agreed in writing.

Staff may also be night workers if there’s a collective agreement (for example, trade union agreement) that states their work is night work.

National Minimum Wage

The National Minimum Wage applies to night workers but there is not a higher night working rate.

Sleep-in shifts

The number of hours that workers get paid the National Minimum Wage depends on whether they’re expected to sleep or work for most of their shift.

Workers who are expected to sleep for most of a sleep-in shift (for example, a care worker), and are provided with suitable sleeping facilities, will only get the National Minimum Wage for the periods when they’re awake to perform tasks.

Workers who are expected to work for most of a shift will get the National Minimum Wage for their whole shift, even if they’re allowed to sleep between tasks.

Limits on working hours for night workers

Additional rules apply to night workers on top of the rules on maximum weekly working hours and rest breaks.

Night workers must not work more than an average of 8 hours in a 24-hour period.

The average is usually calculated over 17 weeks, but it can be over a longer period of up to 52 weeks if the workers and the employer agree - for example, by collective agreement.

Regular overtime is included in the average, but not occasional overtime.

Workers cannot opt out of the limit.

Workers aged 16 or 17

Staff aged 16 or 17 cannot work between midnight and 4am.

They usually cannot work between 10pm and 6am (this can be changed to not working between 11pm and 7am, by contract) but there are exceptions if they work in:

• agriculture
• cultural, sporting, artistic or advertising activities
• a hospital
• a hotel or catering
• retail
• post or newspaper delivery

In exceptional circumstances they can work at night if there’s no adult to do the work and they’re needed to either:

• handle a sudden increase in demand
• maintain the continuity of a service or production - for example, filming

The employer must give the young person a rest period of the same length as the extended shift.

There are other restrictions on employing young people.

Special hazards and mental or physical strain

Night workers who deal with special hazards or whose work involves mental or physical strain cannot work longer than 8 hours in any 24-hour period.

A risk assessment must be carried out to identify special hazards and work involving mental or physical strain.

The hazards and strains may also be set out in collective or workforce agreements.

What employers must do

Employers must keep records of night workers’ working hours to show they are not exceeding the limits.

The records must be kept for at least 2 years.

Related to Night Shift Hours

• Night shift means any shift finishing subsequent to midnight and at or before 8.00 a.m.

• Peak Hours or “Peak Period” means the period with the highest ridership during the entire transit service day as determined by the transit operator. Must include at least one hour during the morning commute hours and one during evening commute hours, Monday through Friday. Each Peak Period cannot be longer than three hours.

• Off-Peak Hours means those hours which are not On-Peak Hours.

• Flight Hour means each hour or part thereof elapsing from the moment at which the wheels of the Aircraft (or other aircraft in the case of Parts or Engines temporarily installed on such other aircraft) leave the ground on the take-off of the Aircraft (or such other aircraft) until the wheels of the Aircraft (or such other aircraft) touch the ground on the landing of the Aircraft (or such other aircraft) following such take-off.

• On-Peak Hours means Hour Ending (“HE”) 0800 through HE 2300 EPT, Monday through Friday, excluding Saturday, Sunday and PJM holidays.

• Support Hours means Telarus will provide effort between the hours of 7:00am and 8:00pm, Melbourne local time, Monday to Friday excluding national public holidays.

• Kilowatt-hour means the basic unit of electric energy equal to one Kilowatt of power supplied to or taken from an electric circuit steadily for one hour. One-Kilowatt hour equals 1,000 Watt-hours. Electric energy is commonly sold by the Kilowatt-hour.

• Core Hours means the period beginning at 8am and ending at 6.30pm on any day from Monday to Friday except Good Friday, Christmas Day or bank holidays;

• Operating Hours means the time, expressed in hours, during which a combustion plant, in whole or in part, is operating and discharging emissions into the air, excluding start-up and shut-down periods;

• Hours means clock hours.

• Clock hour means either of the following:

• Service Hours means the amount of time (measured in hours or fractions thereof) a Unit is Delivering Energy or Ancillary Services pursuant to a Dispatch Notice.

• Contact hour means an hour of training received through direct instruction.

• Afternoon shift means any shift finishing after 6.00 p.m. and at or before midnight.

• Peak-Hour Dispatch means, for purposes of calculating the Energy and Ancillary Services Revenue Offset under Tariff, Attachment DD, section 5, an assumption, as more fully set forth in the PJM Manuals, that the Reference Resource is committed in the Day-Ahead Energy Market in four distinct blocks of four hours of continuous output for each block from the peak-hour period beginning with the hour ending 0800 EPT through to the hour ending 2300 EPT for any day when the average day-ahead LMP for the area for which the Net Cost of New Entry is being determined is greater than, or equal to, the cost to generate (including the cost for a complete start and shutdown cycle) for at least two hours during each four-hour block, where such blocks shall be assumed to be committed independently; provided that, if there are not at least two economic hours in any given four-hour block, then the Reference Resource shall be assumed not to be committed for such block; and to the extent not committed in any such block in the Day- Ahead Energy Market under the above conditions based on Day-Ahead LMPs, is dispatched in the Real-Time Energy Market for such block if the Real-Time LMP is greater than or equal to the cost to generate under the same conditions as described above for the Day-Ahead Energy Market.

• Hour means an hour of sixty minutes. For the purpose of hire and / or penalty charges, fraction of an hour up to 30 (thirty) minutes will not be taken into account and more than 30 (thirty) minutes will be treated as one full hour.

• night time means any period of not less than seven hours, as defined by national law, and which must include, in any case, the period between midnight and 5.00.

• Labor hours means the total hours of workers receiving an hourly wage who are directly employed on the site of a building improvement or public works project. "Labor hours" includes hours performed by workers employed by the general contractor and all subcontractors working on the project. "Labor hours" does not include hours worked by foremen, superintendents, project managers, project engineers, and owners.

• Man Hours means the hours spent by the Supplier Personnel properly working on the provision of the Goods and/or Services including time spent travelling (other than to and from the Supplier's offices, or to and from the Sites) but excluding lunch breaks;

• Training hour means at least 50 minutes of actual learning, including, but not limited to, time devoted to lecture, learning activities, small group activities, demonstrations, evaluations, and hands-on experience.

• Observation Shift Days means the number of London Banking Days specified in the relevant Final Terms; and

• Week means seven consecutive days.

• Classroom hour means no less than fifty (50) minutes of any one (1) clock hour during which the student participates in a learning activity under the supervision of a member of the faculty of the school.

• Yearly (1/Year) sampling frequency means the sampling shall be done in the month of September, unless specifically identified otherwise in the effluent limitations and monitoring requirements table.

• Day shift means a shift which commences at or after 6.00 am and before 10.00 am.

• Nighttime means the period between sunset and sunrise.

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