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

11. PERMANENT PART-TIME EMPLOYEE

(i) A permanent part-time employee is one who is permanently appointed by a facility to work for a specified number of hours, which are less than those prescribed for a full-time employee.

(ii) At the request of an employee, the hours worked by the employee will be reviewed annually. Where the employee is regularly working more than their specified contract hours then such contract hours shall be adjusted by the employer, to reflect the hours regularly worked. The hours worked in the following circumstances will not be incorporated in the adjustment.

(a) if the increase in hours is as a direct result of an employee being absent on leave, such as for example, annual leave, long service leave, maternity leave, workers compensation; and

(b) if the increase in hours is due to a temporary increase in hours only due, for example, to the specific needs of a resident.

(iii) Any adjusted contracted hours resulting from a review identified in subclause (ii) of this clause should, however, be such as to readily reflect roster cycles and shift configurations utilised at the workplace.

(iv) The hours worked by the employee will be reviewed annually and if the employee is regularly working more than the specified number of hours then a new number of specified hours may be agreed to.

This review will be unnecessary where an increase in hours is as a direct result of a staff member being absent on leave; eg. Workers Compensation, Sick Leave, Annual Leave, etc.

(v) Permanent part-time employees shall be paid an hourly rate calculated on the basis of one thirty- eighth (1/38th) of the appropriate rate prescribed by Part B, Monetary Rates of this award.

(vi) Permanent Part-Time Employees shall be entitled to All Other Benefits of This Award Not Otherwise Expressly Provided for Herein in the Same Proportion as Their Ordinary Hours of Work Bear to Full-Time Hours.

(vii) Permanent part time employees engaged in the provision of home care services shall:

(a) Have a minimum specified number of hours of ten per week or twenty per fortnight.

(b) Have a minimum payment per engagement of one hour.

(c) Notwithstanding the provisions in sub-clause (a) of this clause, where there is a genuine agreement in writing between the employer and employee the minimum contract hours may be reduced.

(d) Have hours of engagement maintained as per clause 8-Roster of Hours.