AN120387 – Nursing Homes, &C., Nurses' (State) Award

8. RECOGNITION OF SERVICE AND EXPERIENCE

(i) The employer shall notify each nurse, in writing, of the requirements of this clause at the time of the nurse's commencement of employment. If the employer does not so notify the nurse, then the requirements of this clause shall not commence until the employer does so notify the nurse.

(ii) From the time of commencement of employment the nurse has three months in which to provide documentary evidence to their employer detailing any other `service' or `experience', as defined in clause 1, Definitions, not disclosed at the time of commencement. This evidence, in the absence of other documentary evidence may take the form of a statutory declaration.

(iii) Until such time as the nurse furnishes any such documentation contemplated in subclause (ii) above, the employer shall pay the nurse at the level for which proof has been provided.

(iv) If within three months of commencing employment a nurse does provide documentary evidence of other previous service or experience not disclosed at the time of commencement, the employer shall pay the nurse at the appropriate rate as and from the date of commencement that would have been paid from that date had the additional evidence been provided at that time.

(v) If a nurse provides documentary evidence of other previous service or experience not disclosed at the time of commencement after the said three months period, the nurse shall be paid a rate appropriate for the previous service or experience then proved, but only from the date of providing that evidence to the employer.

(vi) A nurse who is working as a nurse for more than one organisation shall notify each employer under this award within one month of the end of each quarter of their hours worked with those other employers in the last quarter.

(vii) A nurse who is entitled to progress to the next year of service or experience (by reason of hours worked with other employers) as and from a particular date must provide proof of that entitlement within three months of that entitlement arising. If that proof is so provided, the nurse shall be paid at the higher rate as and from the date they were entitled to progress to the next year of service or experience. If the proof is provided outside that three-month period, the nurse shall be paid at the higher rate only from the date that proof is provided.