General Full Time Work Hours (NSW)

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  daalinz on 22/04/2016 - 19:27

  Depends on employment contract really. Some places will have an Enterprise Bargaining agreement negotiated by a union. You'll find a lot of small businesses will say 8 Hours plus lunch. Some bigger organisations are 8 Hours including lunch or some variation.

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    quietsarcasm on 22/04/2016 - 19:44

    Thanks for the reply.
    I guess that makes sense. Although of the interviews I've had, big and small companies, all have said the 8:30-5:30 times

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      daalinz on 23/04/2016 - 08:14

      My old workplace in the tertiary education sector was 36.25 work hours a week not including lunch, but including tea breaks.

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  donga100 on 22/04/2016 - 20:02

  +2

  Fairwork says it should be 38 hours per week including breaks but that doesn't seem to be the case at most companies these days.

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    quietsarcasm on 22/04/2016 - 20:16

    +2

    Yeah, I saw that, but when I counted the hours in my head it came out at 40 per week excluding breaks

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  cDNA on 22/04/2016 - 20:50

  I work in the medical industry and my hours are 7.30 am to 7 pm.

  The doctors I know work 6.30 am to 7 pm and sometimes longer if there is a backlog.

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    scrimshaw on 22/04/2016 - 22:13

    +1

    Unless you're a GP and run your own practice, in which case you call the shots on which days you work and how long of work a day.

    according to the ABS, dated April 2013

    HOW MANY HOURS DO DOCTORS AND NURSES WORK?

    GPs worked an average of 42 hours in the week prior to the 2011 Census, three hours less than the average for specialists (45 hours). In comparison, people employed in occupations other than GPs and specialists worked an average of 37 hours in the week prior to the 2011 Census.

    The hours worked by doctors varied considerably between men and women. As in many occupations, female doctors were more likely to work part-time than their male counterparts. In 2011, in the week preceding the Census, around a third of female GPs (35%) and specialists (33%) were working part time. In comparison, around one in ten male GPs or specialists worked part-time in that week (both 13%).

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      cDNA on 22/04/2016 - 22:24

      The doctors I am referring to are the ones who are active and on their feet for most of the time. In ICU and emergency wards.

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  BargainKen on 22/04/2016 - 21:28

  Officially 37.5, Realistically 40+
  More if you have the capability to work remotely.

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  [Deactivated] on 22/04/2016 - 22:36

  +1

  It's 38 hours per week, and there'll generally be some clause in the employment contract requiring you to work a 'reasonable' amount of additional hours on top of this if required (which will be unpaid if you're paid an annual salary rather than hourly rate).

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  quietsarcasm on 22/04/2016 - 22:46

  Thanks for all your responses.
  It's not so much the hours that I was wondering, but rather the start and finish times (kind of redundant to say it wasn't the hours though)

  I think it was just in my head that the standard working time had been 9-5

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  BigTed on 22/04/2016 - 23:27

  Standard for me and my industry seems to be office hours are 8:30 to 5 with an hour lunch break.

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  SnoozeAndLose on 23/04/2016 - 10:10

  Most private and public company do the flexible working hours, by say that you have the core hours like 9 - 3 and the other times will be up to you to make up the time, i.e Monday you work for 9 hours then Tuesday you can work for 7 hours …

  But if the nature of your job need extra work to finish the workload then you may need to work extra, however most company will try to recognise the time you work and you may have a early mark on Friday if you have over worked Monday to Thursday or previous week.

  Note that the contract just a piece of paper sometime they force you to work more than the contract said, you have a choice to work or quit.Some people may still work extra for nothing but some may not.