For subsection 471(3) of the Act, the proportion mentioned in paragraph 471(2)(a) of the Act is worked out for an employee or a class of employees by carrying out the following steps.
Step 1 | Identify the work that an employee or a class of employees is failing or refusing to perform, or is proposing to fail or refuse to perform. |
Step 2 | Estimate the usual time that the employee or the class of employees would spend performing the work during a day. |
Step 3 | Work out the time estimated in Step 2 as a percentage of an employee's usual hours of work for a day. The solution is the proportion by which the employee's payment will be reduced for a day. |