AN120387 – Nursing Homes, &C., Nurses' (State) Award
(i)
(a) The employer shall provide for the use of employees:
(1) toilet facilities; provided that this provision shall not apply to a facility the registered number of beds of which is less than nine;
(2) a full-length locker fitted with lock and key or other suitable place for the safe keeping of clothing and personal effects of such employee.
(b) An employer shall provide for employees morning and afternoon tea, supper and early morning tea (which shall include tea or coffee, together with milk and sugar).
(c) Where an employee requests, the employer shall provide an employee with meals of a reasonable standard. The employer may make a charge, provided that the charge for breakfast shall be the sum set out in Item 17 of Table 2 - Other Rates and Allowances, of Part B, Monetary Rates, and the sum set out in Item 18 of the said Table 2 for other meals.
(ii) The charges referred to in subclause (i) of this clause are to be adjusted in accordance with the
movement in wage rates following State Wage Case decisions. The employers are entitled to set prices for meals at a level to cover labour and ingredient costs (not indirect costs).
