WAP Shift penalties?
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WAP Shift penalties?
Just been looking on the WAP Step Forward site and noticed a table for Shift Penalties. Anyone know what that is?
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Re: WAP Shift penalties?
From $39-$66 per week for weekend and night shift seems like quite a bit. It'll certainly add considerably to your pay.
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Re: WAP Shift penalties?
From a mate of mine who went into WAPOL 5-6 years ago, the average bobby who attains the rank of 5 year first class, or 9 yr senior PC would earn $77,000 and $84,000 respectively, with shift "penalties" should really be shift "Bonus", but I'm told the average wage, including your "penalties" and a bit of OT is over $100,000 before tax and medicare obviously.
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Re: WAP Shift penalties?
Silly question but what way does the Medicare system work...is it something that you automatically sign upto when you join WAPOL?, and therefore it's a standard amount out of your wages every month?, ir is it upto you to take your own private medicare out?...
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Re: WAP Shift penalties?
Have a read of http://www.humanservices.gov.au/cust...icare-services and there are also lots of threads about that and private healthcare in the main Aussie forum.
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Also, take into account that any table listing shift penalties, is based on 8 hour shifts. Most "shifts" i.e. afternoon, evening and night shifts are 10 hours long, so should be calculated as 1.25 shift penalties, per shift worked.