AN170026 – Disability Service Providers Award
(a) Wages shall be paid weekly or fortnightly no later than Thursday in each pay period.
(b) An employee shall be given written details of all monies due to them not later than Thursday in each pay period including advice as to the nature and amount of deductions to pay.
(c) Where a cheque is not met upon presentation or a bank deposit is not made at the time specified or payment is not made at the time specified, otherwise than in circumstances beyond the control of the employer, the employee shall be deemed to be working during the time he/she is kept waiting.
(d) An employee whose method of hours of work is arranged so that the employee works 38 ordinary hours per week shall be paid weekly or fortnightly according to the actual ordinary hours worked.
(e) An employee whose method of hours of work is arranged so that the employee averages 38 ordinary hours work over a particular work cycle shall be paid wages weekly or fortnightly to a weekly average of ordinary hours worked even though more or less than 38 ordinary hours may have been worked in any particular week of the work cycle.
(f) Absences from Duty
An employee paid in accordance with subclause (e) of this clause who is absent from duty other than on annual leave, holidays with pay, paid sick leave, compassionate leave and workers' compensation leave shall, for each day absent, lose average pay for that day calculated by dividing the average weekly rate by five. Where such absence is for part of a day the employee will lose average pay for each hour or part thereof the employee is absent at an hourly rate by dividing the average pay rate by eight.
PROVIDED that where his/her absence from duty is for a whole day without pay the employee will not accrue a "credit" towards a rostered day off (as defined) and in the week of the work cycle where less than 38 ordinary hours is required to be worked the employee shall not be entitled to the average pay rate in that week having that amount reduced by the amount of the credit that has not accrued.
(g) Alternative Methods of Payment
(i) Payment of wages may as the employer so nominates be paid either in cash, by cheque or electronic fund transfer into the employee's bank account without the requirement for the employer to provide encashment facilities.
(ii) Where the employer and the majority of employees concerned agree an alternative method of payment of wages may apply than provided by this clause.
(h) Payment on Termination
Where the services of an employee are dispensed with, the employee's wages shall be paid on the day of termination or forwarded by post on the working day following, provided that in the case of an employee whose method of working hours is arranged so that the employee averages 38 ordinary hours work over a particular work cycle and who has not taken the day or days off so due the wages due to the employee shall include the total of credits accrued to the point of termination. In such a case if the employee has taken off a day or days and has not worked the full accrual the employee's wages due shall be reduced by the total of credits that have not been so accrued.
