HealthShare NSW Patient Transport Officers'
Salaries (State) Award
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES
Application by Health Services Union NSW.
(Case No. 2018/75870)
Before Chief
Commissioner Kite
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19 March 2018
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AWARD
PART A
1. Arrangement
Clause No. Subject
Matter
1 Arrangement
2 Definitions
2. Definitions
3 Conditions
of Employment
4 Classifications
5 Rates of
Pay
6 Anti-Discrimination
7 No Extra
Claims
8 Area,
Incidence and Duration
2. Definitions
2.1 Employer means the Secretary of
the Ministry of Health exercising employer functions on behalf of the
Government of NSW (and includes a delegate of the Secretary).
2.2 Patient Transport Officer means an
employee of HealthShare NSW who is appointed to an
approved Patient Transport Officer position.
2.3 Trainee Patient Transport Officer means
an employee of HealthShare NSW who is undertaking the
necessary and relevant training and work experience as determined by the
Service to become a Patient Transport Officer.
2.4 Union means the Health Services Union
New South Wales.
3. Conditions of
Employment
3.1 The following awards as varied or
replaced from time to time shall apply except in so far as any term of any of
those awards are inconsistent with this award:
Health
Employees Conditions of Employment (State) Award, as varied from time to time,
except for:
Clause 3
(xii) and (xiii) - the meal break and tea break provisions do not apply; and
Clause 14
(i) and (vi) - do not apply,
and
Health
Employees (State) Award as varied from time to time, and,
Health Industry Status of Employment (State) Award.
In the
event of any inconsistency between awards, this award shall apply.
4. Classifications
4.2 A Trainee
Patient Transport Officer is an employee who is undertaking the necessary and
relevant training and work experience as determined by HealthShare
NSW to become a Patient Transport Officer and who is appointed to an approved
Trainee Patient Transport Officer position.
This category of employee will be involved in routine
and non-emergency patient transport utilising basic life support skills. Inter
alia, this category of employee will receive training and certification in work
health and safety, first aid, driver training, patient handling, oxygen
administration, equal employment opportunity, anti-discrimination and
anti-harassment.
4.3 A Patient
Transport Officer is an employee who has successfully completed the necessary and
relevant training and work experience as determined by the Service to become a
Patient Transport Officer and who is appointed to an approved Patient Transport
Officer position. Provided that such an employee shall be required to undertake
and successfully complete further instruction/in-service courses necessary for
Patient Transport Officers as determined by the Service.
This category of employee will be involved in routine
and non-emergency patient transport utilising basic life support skills. This category
of employee will not be utilised to crew ambulances engaged in
emergency/casualty response.
Provided that such an officer shall be required to
undertake and successfully complete further instruction/in service courses and
certification examinations as required by HealthShare
NSW.
5. Rates of Pay
5.1 This Award
grants a 2.5% increase in existing rates of pay to employees within its area,
incidents, and duration.
5.2 Employees shall
be paid not less than as set out in Table 1 of Part B, Monetary Rates.
6. Anti-Discrimination
6.1 It is the
intention of the parties bound by this Award to seek to achieve the object of
section 3(f) if the Industrial Relations
Act 1996 to prevent and eliminate discrimination in the workplace. This
includes discrimination on the grounds of race, sex, marital status,
disability, homosexuality, transgender identity and age.
6.2 It follows that
in fulfilling their obligations under the dispute resolution procedure
prescribed by this Award the parties have obligations to take all reasonable
steps to ensure that the operation of the provisions of this award are not
directly or indirectly discriminatory effects. It will be consistent with the
fulfilment of these obligations for the parties to make an application to vary
any provisions of the award which, by its terms or operation, has a direct or
indirect discriminatory effect.
6.3 Under the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977, it is
unlawful to victimise an employee because the employee has made or may make or
has been involved in a complaint of unlawful discrimination or harassment.
6.4 Nothing in this
clause is to be taken to affect:
i Any conduct or act which is
specifically exempt from anti-discrimination legislation.
ii Offering
or providing junior rates to a person under 21 years of age.
iii Any
act or practice of a body established to propagate religion which is exempted
under Section 56(d) of the Anti-Discrimination
Act 1977.
iv A
party to this award from pursuing matters of unlawful discrimination in a State
or federal jurisdiction.
6.5 This clause
does not create legal rights or obligations in addition to those imposed upon
the parties by the legislation referred to in this clause.
Notes:
(a) Employers and
employees may also be subject to Commonwealth anti-discrimination legislation.
(b) Section 56(d)
of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977
provides: ‘Nothing in this Act affects any other act or practice of a body
established to propagate religion that conforms to the doctrines of that
religion or is necessary to avoid injury to the religious susceptibilities of
the adherents of that religion’.
7. No Extra Claims
7.1 Other than as
provided for in the Industrial Relations
Act 1996 and the Industrial Relations (Public Sector Conditions of
Employment) Regulation 2014, there shall be no further claims/demands or
proceedings instituted before the Industrial Relations Commission of New South
Wales for extra or reduced wages, salaries, rates of pay, allowances or
conditions of employment with respect to the employees covered by the Award
that take effect prior to 30 June 2017 by a party to this Award.
7.2 Nothing in this
award shall prevent the Award of existing claims commencing and operating on or
after 1 July 2017.
8. Area, Incidence and
Duration
8.1 This Award
shall apply to employees New South Wales Health Service, employed within HealthShare NSW in the classifications in clause 4,
Classifications under Section 115(1) of the Health
Services Act 1997, or any successors, assignees or transmittees.
8.2 The Award shall
take effect from the first full pay period on or after 1 July 2016 and shall
remain in force for a period of one year.
PART B
Table 1 - Rates of Pay
Classification
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Rate effective
first full pay period on or after 1/7/2015
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Rate from first
full pay period on or after 1/7/2016
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|
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(includes
increase of 2.5%)
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($)
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($)
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Trainee Patient Transport Officer
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945.40
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969.00
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Patient Transport Officer
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987.50
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1012.20
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P.
KITE, Chief Commissioner.
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Printed by the authority of the Industrial Registrar.