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

17. ALLOWANCES FOR SPECIAL WORKING CONDITIONS

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(a) Employees engaged in work of a dirty or offensive nature and/or cleaning or scraping work in confined spaces (such as inside ventilator shafts, air conditioning ducts or the like) shall, whilst so employed, be paid an allowance of the amount set out in Item 9 of Table 2 of Part B, Monetary Rates per hour extra.

(b) Provided however that employees engaged in cleaning or scraping work inside the gas or water space of any boiler, flue or economiser shall, whilst so employed, be paid an allowance of the amount set out in Item 10 of Table 2 of Part B, Monetary Rates per hour extra.

(ii) Employees who are required to assist tradespersons on work of a dirty or offensive nature shall be paid disability allowances under the same terms and conditions as the disability allowances that may be payable to the tradespersons they are assisting.

(iii) Employees shall be paid an allowance of the amount set out in Item 11 of Table 2 of Part B, Monetary Rates per hour or part thereof for all time during which they are engaged in handling linen of a nauseous nature other than linen sealed in bags.

(iv) An employee, other than a Homecare Employee, sent for duty to a place other than his/her regular place of duty shall be paid for all excess travelling time at the appropriate rate of pay and reimbursed excess travelling expenses.

(v) Vehicle Allowance: Where an employee is called upon and agrees to use his/her private vehicle for official business, payment of an allowance shall be made by utilising the rate in item 12 of Table 2 of Part B Monetary Rates per kilometre excluding travel to and from the employees home to the first place of work and return to home at the end of his/her duties. This rate shall remain in force for the duration of this award. This sub-clause shall apply to all employees.

(vi) Where an employee is required to use public transport for travel on official business such employee is to be reimbursed actual expenses incurred for such travel, excluding travel from the employees home to the first place of work and return to home at the cessation of his/her duties.

(vii) No payment shall be made under sub-clause (v) & (vi) unless the employer is satisfied that the employee has incurred expenditure for such travel.

(viii) Where homecare employees are rostered to work with consecutive clients they shall be paid for the time taken to travel between locations at the rate of 3% of the ordinary pay per hour per kilometre travelled, excluding travel from the employees home to the first place of work and return to home at the cessation of his/her duties; provided that this payment shall not be made if the employee is being paid at the hourly rate of pay for the time between consecutive clients.

(ix) An employee in possession of, and required to act on, a Laundry and Dry Cleaning Certificate, shall be paid an allowance in the nature of a salary as set out in item 13, of Table 2, Other Rates and Allowances.

(x) An employee who works less than thirty-eight hours per week shall be entitled to this allowance identified in sub clause (ix) above in the same proportion as the average hours worked each week bears to thirty-eight ordinary hours.