Excellent Pay & Benefits for Bus Operators
Be part of the largest bus transport provider in Australia and with the backing of the NSW Government, you not only have a job for life, you will have a career path.
Excellent pay and benefits include.
- Five weeks paid annual leave (shift workers) with 20% annual leave loading.
- 9% superannuation with option to salary sacrifice.
- 8 days sick leave a year, going up to 10 days sick leave after 5 years service and to
15 days after 7 years service. - 2 months long service leave after 10 years service with an additional 2 weeks long service leave for each additional year of service completed after 10 years.
- Free staff travel on Government Bus, Rail and Ferry services in Sydney Metropolitan area and free family interstate and intrastate rail travel (Conditions apply).
- Generous shift, overtime and penalty rates. The rates are varied depending on day, time and number of hours to be worked in the rostered period. (see below for details)
- Access to part time work options
Normal Rates of Pay
The following provides a guide to applicable pay rates. Pay rates are effective from 12 June 2008:
- $20.72 per hour for the first 12 months of employment, after this time, with satisfactory work performance $22.28 per hour.
- Casuals are paid $24.86 per hour.
- Senior Bus Operators are paid $22.70 per hour.
Overtime Rates
The following rules are applied when calculating penalty and overtime rates for Bus Operators:
- Overtime is paid on a daily basis after 8 hours 15 minutes have been worked.
- Overtime is paid on a weekly basis after 40 hours have been worked.
- Overtime is paid at time and a half for the first 3 hours and double time thereafter and is applied on the daily or weekly overtime basis, whichever is the greater advantage to the employee.
- Saturday’s are paid at time and a half when worked as part of the normal roster.
- Sundays are voluntary overtime and paid at double time.
- Hours worked before 7 am and between 5 pm and 8pm attract a 15% penalty. When a shift ends after 8 pm all the hours of the shift attract a 15% penalty.
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Broken shifts attract a penalty rate when the spread of hours exceeds 9.5 hours. Time worked between a 9.5 hour and 10.5 hour spread is paid at time and a half. Time worked in excess of a 10.5 hour spread is paid at double time.
For example, a broken shift working from 6 am to 10 am and then from 2 pm to 6 pm would attract the following rates:
- 6 am to 10 am – normal rates
- 2 pm to 3.30 pm – normal rates
- 3.30 pm to 4.30 pm – time and a half
- 4.30 pm to 6.00 pm – double time.
- The maximum rate to be paid for any hours worked is double normal time. Shift penalty rates are not applied to overtime rates.