Operational Ambulance Officers (State) Award

 

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES

 

Application by NSW Ministry of Health.

 

(No. IRC 87 of 2014)

 

 

VARIATION

 

1.         Delete clause 14, Travelling Time and Expenses of the award published 11 February 2011, (371 I.G. 114), as varied, and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

14.  Travelling Time and Expenses

 

(a)        Except where subclause (c) of clause 16, Relieving Other Members of Staff, an employee who is directed to report for duty at a station other than that to which he or she is appointed shall travel to and from such station in the Service’s time and the employee’s fares and incidental expenses shall be paid by the Service, unless otherwise agreed between the Service and the employee.

 

If such travel is undertaken outside rostered hours, the employee shall be reimbursed at ordinary rates for the time spent travelling in excess of the normal time taken to travel between his or her home and the station to which he or she is appointed.

 

(b)        If an employee is rostered to a shift requiring him or her to work at more than one station in a working week, the employee’s fares in excess of the fares to the employee’s appointed station shall be paid in full.

 

(c)        Where an employee, with the prior approval of the Service, travels by the employee’s own motor vehicle, the employee shall be paid the casual rate as prescribed by the Crown Employees (Public Service Conditions of Employment) Award , as amended from time to time, for all kilometres travelled in excess of the kilometres that the employee would normally travel between the employee’s usual place of residence and the ambulance station to which he or she is appointed and return to such residence.

 

(d)        Travel, either by public transport or own mode of conveyance, shall in all instances be by the most   direct route.

 

2.         Delete clause 16, and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

16.  Relieving Other Members of Staff

 

(a)        An employee called upon to relieve another employee paid on a higher scale shall be entitled to receive the minimum rate of the higher scale of pay. This provision shall not apply when an employee on a higher scale is absent from duty by reason of his or her allocated day off duty as a consequence of working a 38-hour week in accordance with paragraph (i) of subclause (a) of clause 21, Allocated Days Off. No reduction shall be made in the scale of pay of an employee called upon to relieve another paid on a lower scale. Where an employee is called upon to relieve a Superintendent/Operations Manager, he/she shall be paid the minimum rate of the position so relieved.

 

(b)        When an employee is required to relieve another employee posted at another station, and by so doing is required to live away from home, he or she shall be called a relieving employee.

 

(c)        A relieving employee will be entitled to a living away from home allowance as set out in Table 2C in this Award. The living away from home allowance is determined as the sum of the meal expenses on one day journeys and the incidental allowance for the location the relieving employee is posted, as prescribed by the Crown Employees (Public Service Conditions of Employment) Reviewed Award 2009, as amended from time to time.

 

A relieving employee who is entitled to receive the living away from home allowance is not entitled to receive payment under subclause 15(a) of this Award. When travelling on cases in accord with clause 15, relieving employees shall be entitled to allowances under subclause 15(b) or 15(c) where applicable.

 

A relieving employee who is provided with board and lodgings at no charge will not be entitled to receive the living away from home allowance.

 

(d)        If accommodation at no charge is not available to the relieving employee, accommodation costs will be met by the Service directly with the provider. In the unusual circumstance that the employee pays the cost of the accommodation they will be entitled to the reimbursement of accommodation expenses as per the Ministry’s Policy Directive on Travel PD2009_016 Official Travel, as amended from time to time.

 

(e)        If the relieving employee is required to be on call, he or she shall be paid, in addition to the aforementioned amount, the amount specified in clause 23, Employees On Call.

 

(f)        The Service shall decide whether an employee travels to or from their relief duties in rostered hours. If the travel is to be accomplished outside rostered hours, the employee shall be reimbursed at ordinary rates for the time spent travelling in excess of the normal time taken to travel between his or her home and the station to which he or she is appointed.

 

3.         Delete subclause (c) of clause 37, Uniforms and insert in lieu thereof the following:]

 

(c)        Employees required to wear a uniform shall be paid a laundry allowance as prescribed in Item 12 of Table 2A of Section 8 Monetary Rates.

 

4.         Delete Table 2A, Allowances of Section 8, Monetary Rates and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

Table 2A - Allowances

 

Item	Clause	Brief Description	Rate from	Rate from	Rate from
No.			1.7.2010	1.7.2011	1.7.1012
			(4%) pw	(4%) pw	(3.9%) pw
			$	$	$
1	5	Specialist Allowance	37.60	39.10	40.60
2	5	Rescue (Standby) Allowance	13.00	13.50	14.00
3	23	On Call Allowance (per 24hrs)	18.20	18.90	19.60
4	23	On Call Allowance (per week)	73.00	75.90	78.90
5	5	Ambulance Studies Certificate	22.00	22.90	23.80
		Allowance (current recipients only)
6	13	Climatic and Isolation Allowance	4.30	4.30	4.30
		(a)*
7	13	Climatic and Isolation Allowance	8.70	8.70	8.70
		(b)*
8	15a	Travelling Meal Allowance*	25.80	25.80	25.80
9	15c(i)	Meal Away from Station	25.80	25.80	25.80
		Allowance*
10	15c(ii)	Crib Away From Station	12.90	12.90	12.90
		Allowance*
11	24	Overtime Meal Allowance*	25.80	25.80	25.80
12	37	Laundry Allowance per week*	12.50	12.50	12.50

 

* This is not subject to Award wages increases.

 

5.         Insert after Table 2B, Additional Allowances the following new table:

 

Table 2C – Living Away From Home Allowance

 

Clause	Brief Description	Rate from 26.2.2014
16	Living Away From Home Allowance*	Tier 1 - $118.85
		Tier 2 - $109.80

 

*This is not subject to Award wages increases

 

6.         This variation shall take effect from the first full pay period to commence on or after 26 February 2014.

 

 

 

 

I. TABBAA, Commissioner

 

 

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