AP806214CRV - Home and Community Care Award 2001
PART 6 - HOURS OF WORK, BREAKS, OVERTIME, SHIFT WORK, WEEKEND WORK
19. HOURS OF WORK
19.1 General home care workers
19.1.1 A general home care worker will be paid in accordance with clause 14.1.1 for all time worked between the hours of 6.00 a.m. to 8.00 p.m. Monday to Sunday (the spread of hours).
19.1.2 All work performed outside the spread of hours attracts a 50% loading on the ordinary hourly rate.
19.2 Personal care worker
19.2.1 A personal care worker will be paid in accordance with 14.1.1, for all time worked over the period Monday to Sunday.
19.2.2 Unless otherwise agreed, all employees will ordinarily be entitled to a minimum of ten hours break between finishing work on one day and commencing work on the next.
19.3 Overnight care
19.3.1 An employee engaged for an overnight shift will be paid in accordance with the wage rates in clause 14.1.3.
19.3.2 An overnight care shift requires an employee to be available for duty in a client's home for a ten hour period. During this period, the employee is required to provide a total of three hours of general home care services or personal home care services.
19.3.3 An overnight care shift will be worked between the hours of 7.30 p.m. and 8.30 a.m. although the employer and employee may agree to vary these hours.
19.3.4 If an employee believes that more than three hours' personal or home care services are required to be provided during an overnight care shift, the employee will advise his or her Service Co-ordinator. If the Service Co-ordinator obtains the permission of the client to perform the additional services, the Service Co-ordinator will notify the employee accordingly and the employee will be paid for the performance of the additional services as follows:
19.3.4(a) as a minimum, the ordinary hourly rate prescribed for band 2 employees by 14.1, as appropriate; and
19.3.4(b) for a minimum of one hours' work.
19.3.5 An employee will normally have the opportunity to sleep during an overnight care shift and where appropriate, a bed in a private room will be provided for the employee.
An employee engaged for a 24 hour shift will be paid in accordance with the wage rates in clause 14.1.2.
19.4.1 A 24 hour care shift requires an employee to be available for duty in a client's home for a 24 hour period. During this period, the employee is required to provide the client with the services specified in the care plan.
19.4.2 An employee will normally have the opportunity to sleep during a 24 hour care shift and where appropriate, a bed in a private room will be provided for the employee.
