AN120118 – Charitable, Aged and Disability Care Services (State) Award
(i) Employees will be given on-going training as necessary, relevant to their roles and responsibilities.
(ii) Each employee shall provide to his/her employer details of their attendance at training and the employer shall keep a record of this attendance.
(iii) Upon termination of the employees employment the employer shall provide to the employee a written statement of the hours of training attended by the employee.
(iv) Where practicable, such training shall be provided to employees during their normal rostered hours of work. Where this is not practicable:
(a) Employees shall attend training outside their normal rostered working hours when required to do so by the employer;
(b) An employer shall provide employees with two (2) weeks notice of the requirement to attend training outside of their normal rostered working hours;
(c) Notwithstanding clause 10-Overtime, attendance at such training shall be paid ordinary pay for the period of training.
(d) An employer requiring an employee to attend training shall also pay to the employee ordinary pay for time travelling to and from a period of training referred to in sub clause (c) that is in excess of the time normally taken for that employee to attend work.
(e) When receiving travelling time as set out in subclause (d) above in this clause, any employee using their own vehicle for attendance at such training shall be reimbursed as set out in Item 5 of Table 2, Part B of this Award.
(f) Training provided outside the normal rostered hours of work shall be arranged so as to allow full-time employees to have at least eight or ten hours off-duty before or after training and the end or beginning of their shift, whichever is applicable as set out in Clause 7-Hours. Where practicable, similar arrangements should also be made available to all other employees.
(g) Any training undertaken by an employee that occurs at a workplace is not intended to replace or supplement staffing levels and the normal levels of service delivery at such a workplace.
(h) Not withstanding sub-clause (ix) of Clause 7-Hours, sub-clause (ii) of Clause 10- Overtime will not apply where attendance at such training is outside the normal rostered working time of other than full-time employees and where it interrupts the applicable eight or ten hour break between shifts.
