EBA clauses
Consecutive shift rules across pay periods, done right.
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The problem
The pay period boundary problem
Say the pay week closes Tuesday night. A worker starts nights on Sunday and works five in a row to Thursday. The agreement pays the higher rate from the third consecutive night. Two of those nights sit in one pay run and three in the next, so an engine that only reads the current period counts one night, then counts one night again, and never reaches three.
The worker did five nights in a row. They should be paid for five nights in a row, whatever week the cutoff lands in.
The inputs
Why start and finish times matter
Sequence rules need actual shift times, not bulk hours. "38 hours" cannot tell you whether a shift qualified as night work, or whether two shifts were consecutive. That is why our timesheets capture real start and finish times from site.
Real times, not totals
Every shift arrives with a start, a finish and a break, already approved on site.Night work is defined by the clause
The Employment Hero configuration needs to reflect the agreement's definition of night shift.
The fix
How cross-period tracking works
The agreement may require shift history to be considered across pay periods. We help review and test whether the Employment Hero configuration reflects those clauses. Crew Time supplies the start, finish and break records for your payroll team to review.
Counting the shift sequence…
One sequence, two pay runs
The boundary is a reporting line, not a reset.Mapped during the EBA build
We work out which sequences your agreement counts before you go live.
Shift rule questions
Does this need a special timesheet system?
It needs start and finish times. Our site timesheets capture them natively, so the sequence rules have something to count.
Which rules does it cover?
Consecutive-shift loadings, night-shift sequences, and similar span rules in your agreement, mapped during the EBA build.
Reviewed August 2026. General information, not legal advice.
Your agreement
Does your EBA have this clause?
Send us your agreement and we will review how its shift rules should be configured in Employment Hero.
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