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4.9 SHORT NOTICE REST DAY WORKING ALLOWANCE (INSPECTOR, CHIEF INSPECTOR & SUPERINTENDING RANKS)
The Short-notice Rest Day Working Allowance is provided to inspecting and superintending ranks who are required to work on a rest day with less than 48 hours’ notice of the start time of the required duty and is in addition to the provision of a RRRD. The allowance shall be payable once per qualifying day of disruption. For the current rate of the allowance (see section 4.12)
The allowance will be payable in the following circumstances:
- where the officer was required to work on a rest day during a period of on-call, or
- where the officer was detained on duty into a rest day, or
- where an officer’s rest day is re-rostered with less than 48 hours’ notice in anticipation of an operational need for which in the event he/she is not required to attend duty but the officer chooses to work on the rest day.
In each of the above instances the officer must work a minimum of 4 hours in order to claim the allowance.
Such a requirement to work on a rest day would also count towards the excessive rest day disruption allowance.
The allowance will not be payable for a specific event or operation where the use of the double-lock rest day mechanism has been agreed.
The implementation date shall be 1 April 2023 with officers receiving payment for any requirement to work on rest day from that date with less than 48 hours’ notice.
The value of the allowance rate shall uplift in line with any subsequent police officer pay award.
The allowance shall not be reckonable for pension purposes.
| Scenario | Entitlement |
| Officer scheduled weeks in advance to be on-call from 0700 on Friday to 0700 on Monday (spanning rest days on Saturday and Sunday) | Officer is entitled to claim 3 x On-call Allowance payments (1 each for Friday, Saturday and Sunday) irrespective of whether they are subsequently required to perform duty or not. |
| Officer required to attend an office at short-notice on the Saturday between 0700 and 1100 | Officer is already in receipt of the On-call Allowance but would now be entitled to a RRRD for the requirement to work on the Saturday and if this requirement to work was with less than 48 hours’ notice then they would receive the Short-notice Rest Day Working Allowance as well. (NB. A requirement to work on a rest day would also count towards the Excessive Rest Day Disruption Allowance.) (N.B. The 48 hour threshold relates to notification of the requirement to work/perform duty not to notification of the requirement to be on call). |
| Officer called out at 1600 on the Saturday and worked until 2200 | For the Saturday, the officer has already received 1 x On-call Allowance, and 1 x RRRD and 1 x Short-notice RD Working Allowance for the initial requirement to work for a minimum of 4 hours, but has now worked extended hours. Flexi-time cannot be accrued where an officer is otherwise being compensated for time worked e.g. in receipt of a RRRD for the requirement to work on the rest day. The normal working hours on a day which was a rest day and has now become a normal working day is 8 hours, regardless of whether the officer works on a VSA or not. Therefore, any duty performed beyond 8 hours in total (cumulative) can be accrued as flexi-time. |