AN120118 – Charitable, Aged and Disability Care Services (State) Award
(i)
(a) The ordinary hours of work for each employee shall be displayed on a roster in a place conveniently accessible to employees. Such roster shall be displayed two weeks prior to the commencing date of the first working period in any roster subject to sub-clause (b) below.
(b) In the case of Homecare Employees, alternative means of communicating changes of rosters such as telephone communication, direct contact, mail or facsimile will be accepted.
(ii) Sub-clause (i) shall not make it obligatory for the employer to display any roster of ordinary hours of work of members of the casual or relieving staff.
(iii) Provided that a roster may be altered at any time to enable the service of the organisation to be carried on where another employee is absent from duty on account of illness or in an emergency. Where such alteration involves an employee working on a day which would have been his/her rostered day off, such employee may elect to be paid at overtime rates or have a day off in lieu which shall be mutually arranged.
Provided also that this provision shall not apply where the only change to the roster of a part- time employee is the mutually agreed addition of extra hours to be worked such that the part- time employee still has two rostered days off in that week or four rostered days off in that fortnight, as the case may be.
Provided further that any alteration to the roster of hours of a day worker must be consistent with the definition of a day worker contained in clause 2-Definitions.
(iv)
(a) Where a home care client cancels for reasons other than those outlined in (iv)(b), permanent employees shall be entitled to receive payment for their minimum specified hours in that pay period. The employer may direct the employee to make-up time equivalent to the cancelled time, in that or the subsequent fortnightly period. This time may be made up working with other home care clients or in a facility.
(b) Where the employer is unable to meet the minimum specified hours of a permanent employee for reasons associated with death, hospitalisation or other like extenuating circumstances, the following procedures shall be followed in the sequence provided:
1. work shall be re-allocated from casual employees to the permanent employee; or
2. hours shall be reallocated from another employee who is working hours additional to their minimum specified hours; or
3. where the employee agrees, the employee may have access to annual or long service leave; or
4. the employee and employer may agree to a period of unpaid leave; or
5. failing agreement in (4) above, refer to the dispute procedure.
6. Notwithstanding the provisions in sub-clauses (1) to (5) inclusive, if after six weeks - or earlier if by mutual agreement - the employer is unable to provide the minimum specified hours, the employee shall be entitled to the provisions set out
in Clause 42-Redundancy.
(v) Where an employee is entitled to an allocated day off duty in accordance with clause 7-Hours of this award, that allocated day off duty is to be shown on the roster of hours for that employee.
(vi) Each sleepover shall appear on the roster.
