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AN120118 – Charitable, Aged and Disability Care Services (State) Award

2. DEFINITIONS

"A.C.S." - means the Aged and Community Services Association of NSW and ACT Inc., a registered organisation of employers that is party to this award.

"Adult Service" - means service with an employer during which the worker received a rate of pay not less than the lowest rates fixed by this award for an adult, in the same classification as the worker, or

the employee is on the age scale at 18 years and over.

"C.C.E.R." - means the Catholic Commission for Employment Relations that is an employer party to this award.

"Day Worker" - means an employee who works their ordinary hours from Monday to Friday inclusive and who commences work on such days at or after 6:00 a.m. and at or before 10:30 a.m., otherwise than as part of a shift system.

"Engagement" - means time that an employee is engaged in homecare services with the client/s joined by the time taken to travel between clients, meal breaks, and rest periods, including overtime worked continuously after the engagement.

"Homecare Residence" - means the homecare clients place of abode.

"Ordinary Pay" - includes base pay and overaward payments for ordinary hours of work; Climatic and Isolation allowances; Leading Hand allowance; and Service allowance. It does not include shift or weekend penalties.

"Shift Worker" - means an employee who is not a day worker as defined.

"Union" means the Health Services Union.

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