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penalty rates

penalty rates is the plural of penalty rate.

Meaning of penalty rate

Noun

penalty rate (plural penalty rates)

  1. (Australia, industrial relations) 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

Questions about penalty rates

What is penalty rates the plural of?
Penalty rates is the plural of penalty rate.

Words near penalty rates in the dictionary

  1. penalty phase
  2. penalty phases
  3. penalty point
  4. penalty points
  5. penalty rate
  6. penalty rates
  7. penalty shoot-out
  8. penalty shoot-outs
  9. penalty shootout
  10. penalty shootouts
  11. penalty shot

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