penalty rate
penalty rate noun: a mandated minimum rate of pay which is higher than the usual minimum wage, paid to an employee when working on weekends, public holidays, overtime, late night shifts or early morning shifts.
Noun
penalty rate (plural penalty rates)
- A mandated minimum rate of pay which is higher than the usual minimum wage, paid to an employee when working on weekends, public holidays, overtime, late night shifts or early morning shifts.
- It has been urged that the 50 per cent penalty rate ought not to be considered as forming part of the guaranteed earnings of guards and other employees who are compelled to work on Sundays, but that such employees ought to be paid the cash equivalent of such penalty time in addition to ...1929, Commonwealth arbitration reports, volume 28, page 550
Forms of penalty rate
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Questions about penalty rate
- What does penalty rate mean?
- Penalty rate means a mandated minimum rate of pay which is higher than the usual minimum wage, paid to an employee when working on weekends, public holidays, overtime, late night shifts or early morning shifts.
- What part of speech is penalty rate?
- Penalty rate is a noun.
- What is the plural of penalty rate?
- The plural of penalty rate is penalty rates.
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