8AInterpretation

8A Interpretation

(1) In this Part:

pay period, in relation to a person who is, or has ceased to be, an eligible employee, means:

(a) where the first day of service of the person is not a pay day in relation to the person—the period commencing on the first day of service of the person and ending on the expiration of the day immediately preceding the pay day in relation to the person first occurring after his or her first day of service;
(b) each period commencing on a pay day in relation to the person (not being the pay day in relation to the person last preceding his or her last day of service) and ending on the expiration of the day immediately preceding the next following pay day in relation to the person;
(c) the period commencing on the pay day in relation to the person last preceding his or her last day of service and ending on the expiration of his or her last day of service; and
(d) where there is no pay day in relation to the person that falls within the period commencing on his or her first day of service and ending on the expiration of his or her last day of service—that period.

prescribed eligible employee means an eligible employee who is, under the terms and conditions of his or her employment, entitled to receive as part of his or her salary or wages, in addition to the amount payable to the eligible employee in respect of the actual performance of his or her work or duties, an amount that is payable to the eligible employee solely by reason that the eligible employee has performed work or duties during specified hours that are, under those terms and conditions of employment, normal hours of duty for the eligible employee.

shift allowance means:

(a) so much of the salary or wages of a prescribed eligible employee as is, under the terms and conditions of his or her employment, payable to the prescribed eligible employee solely by reason that the prescribed eligible employee has performed work or duties during specified hours that are, under those terms and conditions of employment, normal hours of duty for the prescribed eligible employee; and
(b) where a prescribed eligible employee is, under the terms and conditions of his or her employment, entitled to receive, as part of his or her salary or wages in respect of a period of leave of absence, an amount that is payable to the prescribed eligible employee in lieu of any amount of salary or wages of the kind referred to in paragraph (a) that the prescribed eligible employee would have been likely to earn if the eligible employee had not been on leave of absence during that period—so much of the salary or wages of the prescribed eligible employee as is so payable to him or her.