PRIVATE HOSPITAL EMPLOYEES' (STATE) AWARD

 

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES

 

Review of Award pursuant to Section 19 of the Industrial Relations Act 1996.

 

(No. IRC 5773 of 2003)

 

 

REVIEWED AWARD

 

PART A

 

1.  Arrangement

 

Clause No.          Subject Matter

 

1.         Arrangement

2.         Definitions

3.         Wages

4.         Hours

5.         Roster of Hours

6.         Meals

7.         Overtime

8.         Part-time Work

9.         Casual Employees

10.       Apprentices

11.       Penalty Rates and Shift Allowances

12.       Allowances for Special Working Conditions

13.       Public Holidays

14.       Sick Leave

15.       State Personal/Carer’s Leave

16.       Annual Leave

17.       Annual Leave Loading

18.       Long Service Leave

19.       Compassionate Leave

20.       Accommodation and Amenities

21.       Uniforms and Protective Clothing

22.       Relieving Other Members of Staff

23.       Payment and Particulars of Wages

24.       Service Allowance

25.       Inspection of Lockers

26.       Grievance Procedures

27.       Anti-Discrimination

28.       Labour Flexibility

29.       Termination of Employment

30.       Attendance at Meetings and Fire Drills

31.       Union Representative

32.       Notice Board

33.       Blood Counts

34.       Award Benefits to be Continuous

35.       New Positions

36.       Exemptions

37.       Reasonable Hours

38.       Area, Incidence and Duration

 

PART B

 

MONETARY RATES

 

Table 1 - Rates of Pay

Table 2 - Other Rates and Allowances

 

2.  Definitions

 

In this award:

 

"Anaesthetic and Operating Theatre Technician" means a person who is wholly or mainly engaged in assembling, checking, maintaining and monitoring anaesthetic equipment before, during and/or after operations.

 

"Assistant Chief Radiographer" means a senior radiographer who has been appointed as second-in-charge to the Chief Radiographer.

 

"Boiler Attendant (with added maintenance duties)" means a person who is the holder of a boiler certificate and whose ordinary duties include the maintenance of low-pressure steam plant and steam services.

 

"Catering Officer" means a person who is responsible to the Chief Executive Officer for the catering services of the place of employment.

 

"Chef" means a person whose duties may include the supervision of staff, the necessary instruction in all branches of cooking, and responsibility for requisitioning the items necessary for the preparation and serving of meals.

 

"Chief Radiographer" means a radiographer who has been appointed as such and/or who is the sole radiographer at the hospital.

 

"Clerk-Grade I" means an employee who may be required to work under direct supervision and who performs work of a routine and repetitive clerical nature, which requires the exercise of limited discretion.  Their duties may include: checking figures; matching documents; sorting or filing papers; and handling mail.

 

"Clerk-Grade II" means a person who may work under general supervision and who, in addition to performing the duties of a Clerk, Grade I, performs general clerical duties which involve the exercise of some initiative and minor decision making.  His/her duties may include: switchboard operation for the major part of his/her time; or employment as a typist who does not fall within the definitions of Clerk Grades IV and V.

 

"Clerk-Grade III" means a person who, in addition to performing the duties of a Clerk, Grade II, performs clerical duties which may include: stenography; comptometer operation; ledger posting or similar accounting machine operation; data processing; tabulating machine operation; computer operation; card punch machine operation; verifier operator.

 

"Clerk-Grade IV" means a person who performs clerical duties under limited supervision and who is regularly required to exercise independent initiative and judgement and who has a knowledge of office procedures and the employer's business.  In addition to performing the duties of a Clerk Grade I, II or III, his/her duties may include:  supervision and/or control of the work of other clerks (excluding typists and stenographers), a typing pool and/or the work of bookkeeping and comptometer operation.

 

"Clerk-Grade V" means a person who exercises substantial responsibility and independent initiative and judgement, performs clerical duties and office administration which may include liaison with external people and organisations as required by the employer in connection with the administration of the business.

 

Notation: The definitions of Clerks Grades I to V shall have no application to a person employed in a managerial capacity, that is, a person who is employed primarily to control the conduct of the employer's business, either in whole or in part, and who, in the performance of his/her duties, regularly makes decisions and accepts responsibility on matters relating to the administration and conduct of the business and whose performance of clerical duties is merely ancillary to his/her managerial employment.

 

"Direct Supervision" shall mean that a person:

 

(a)        receives detailed instructions on the work to be performed; and

 

(b)        performs tasks which are part of an overall work routine; and

 

(c)        is subject to regular personal progress checks on the work being performed.

 

"General Supervision" shall mean that a person:

 

(a)        receives instructions on what is required on unusual or difficult features of the work and on the method of approach when new procedures are involved; and

 

(b)        is normally subject to progress checks which are usually confined to unusual or difficult aspects of the tasks; and

 

(c)        has the knowledge and experience required to perform the duties, usually without specific instructions, but has assignments reviewed on completion.

 

"Limited Supervision" shall mean that a person:

 

(a)        may be subject to progress checks which will be principally confined to establishing that satisfactory progress is being made;  and

 

(b)        may have assignments reviewed on completion.

 

"Cook-Grade A" means a person employed by a hospital having at the preceding 30 June an adjusted daily average of 50 or more occupied beds.

 

"Cook-Grade B" means a person employed as a cook, other than a Chef or Cook Grade A.

 

"Day worker" means a person who works his/her ordinary hours from Monday to Friday, inclusive, and who commences work on such days at or after 5:30 a.m. and before 10:00 a.m., otherwise than as part of a shift system.

 

"Diversional Therapist" - shall mean a person who provides, facilitates and co-ordinates group and individual leisure and recreational activities.  This person must be a graduate from an approved university course which includes: the Associate Diploma and Diploma of Applied Science (Diversional Therapy) at the University of Sydney; Bachelor of Applied Sciences (Leisure and Health) at the University of Sydney; Bachelor of Applied Science (Diversional Therapy) at the University of Western Sydney, Macarthur; the Diploma or Bachelor of Health Sciences (Leisure and health) at Charles Sturt University; the Associate Diploma course in Diversional Therapy conducted by the Cumberland College of Health Sciences;  or who has such other qualifications deemed to be equivalent.

 

"Electro-Cardiograph Recorder/Technician (ECG Recorder/Technician)" means a person whose duties consist of recording of electro-cardiograms and assisting in recording of electrical output of pacemakers in situ in patients; recording, mounting, copying and distribution of electro-cardiograms on patients; recognition of the formation of specific patterns which must receive the immediate attention of the cardiologist for the safety of the patient; learning basic fundamentals of reading electro-cardiograms to determine whether records taken are satisfactory for medical reporting;  general maintenance of equipment and electrodes.

 

"Engineer" means a person appointed as such who possesses either:

 

(a)        Technical College Certificate for Mechanical Engineering;

 

(b)        Ministry of Transport Certificate of Competency;  or

 

(c)        other qualifications acceptable to the employer.

 

"Gardener (Otherwise)" means a person who is engaged in horticulture, gardening, green-keeping, floral decoration and all phases of allied works such as rockery building, paving, landscaping and the like, and shall include the driving and/or operation of motorised tractor-hauled or mechanical equipment.

 

"Gardener (Qualified)" means a gardener who holds a recognised certificate in gardening and horticulture and has four years' gardening experience.

 

"General Services Officer-Grade I" means a person who performs any or all of the following duties: general cleaning duties; household chore type of duties; laundry duties using domestic machinery; and seamstress duties.

 

"General Services Officer-Grade I (Junior)" means a General Services Officer, Grade I under the age of eighteen years.

 

"General Services Officer-Grade II" means a person who, in addition to the duties contained within Grade I, can perform any or all of the following duties: all cleaning associated with pots, pans, stoves, refrigerators or any other kitchen machinery; general kitchen cleaning; high cleaning; inside cleaning; outside cleaning; stripping or sealing floors; portering patients or residents and/or heavy equipment; operation of industrial washing machines; cleaning of tooth and vomit bowls; sanitising of bed pans and other equipment; the cooking and/or preparation of light refreshments (eg. eggs, toast, salads, etc.); the making of unoccupied beds; cleaning garbage bins; sweeping paths; keeping the outside of buildings clean and tidy;  assisting the gardener in labouring duties under supervision;  mowing lawns.

 

"General Services Officer-Grade III" means a person who in addition to the duties contained within General Services Officer, Grade II, performs the duties of the previous classifications of handyman and storeman, or the duties of an assistant cook (meaning a person who, under the direct supervision of a chef or cook, assists in the preparation and serving of meals.  The number of assistant cooks employed by a facility shall not exceed the number of cooks and/or chefs employed at that facility).

 

"General Services Officer-Grade IV" means a person who, in addition to the duties contained within General Services Officer, Grade III, is wholly or substantially engaged in assisting a therapist, recreation activities officer or dietician with routine professional or recreational activity and personal care services.

 

"Handyperson" means a person who carries out repairs of a minor nature.  Where tradesmen are not employed and the handyperson is required to perform the work of a tradesman, the employee shall be paid wages applicable to the trade for the time so spent.

 

"Head Gardener (Otherwise)" means a person employed as such who is in charge of at least three other employees, one of whom is a gardener.

 

"Head Gardener (Qualified)" means a person who is employed as such and who is the holder of a certificate in gardening and horticulture with four years' experience, who is in charge of at least three other employees, one of whom is a gardener.

 

"Heart/Lung Assistant" means a person who assists the Heart/Lung Technician in the assembly, dismantling and cleaning of heart/lung equipment.

 

"Heart/Lung Technician" means a person whose duties require him/her to be skilled in the assembly, operation, dismantling and cleaning of heart/lung machines and the operation of cardiac monitoring equipment.

 

"Leading Hand" means a person appointed as such by the employer, who is placed in charge of not less than two other employees of a substantially similar classification, but does not include any employee whose classification denotes supervisory responsibility.

 

"Maintenance Supervisor" means a person who has overall responsibility for maintenance at the place of employment, who may be required to supervise other maintenance staff and who may hold trade qualifications.

 

"Neurophysiological Technician (previously Electro-Encephalograph Recorder/Technician, i.e., EEG Recorder/Technician)" means a person whose duties consist of recording of electro-encephalographs and the conducting of tests to graph patients' brain waves; the care and maintenance of equipment; reviewing tracings and preparing reports thereon for consideration by the medical staff.

 

"Nuclear Medicine Technologist" means a person who has acquired a Nuclear Medicine Technologist Certificate or such other qualifications deemed to be equivalent; provided that all persons employed as at the 6 March 1990 as nuclear medicine technologists shall be deemed to hold qualifications at the level required by this award.

 

"Radiographer" means a person who has acquired the Certificate of the Conjoint Board of the College of Radiologists of Australasia and the Australian Institute of Radiography or the Diploma of the Australasian Institute of Radiography or such other qualification as is deemed equivalent.

 

"Recreation Activities Officer" means a person other than a Diversional Therapist with Associate Diploma who is responsible for diversional activities of patients.

 

"Senior Anaesthetic and Operating Theatre Technician" means a person holding the diploma issued by the Society of Anaesthetic and Operating Theatre Technicians, who has a minimum of two years post-graduate service as an Anaesthetic and Operating Theatre Technician and is in charge of two or more Anaesthetic and Operating Theatre Technicians.

 

"Senior Electro-Cardiograph Recorder/Technician" means a person employed as such, and who is in charge of two or more other employees.

 

"Senior Neuro physiological Technician" means a person employed as such and who is in charge of two or more technicians.

 

"Senior Nuclear Medicine Technologist" means a person in charge of a separate section of a nuclear medicine department or in charge of a department of a satellite hospital under the administration of a Chief Nuclear Medicine Technologist.

 

"Senior Radiographer" means a radiographer who is responsible to the Chief Radiographer for the administration of a separate section of the X-Ray Department.

 

"Shift Worker" means a worker who is not a day worker as defined.

 

"Storekeeper" means a person who is responsible for the custody and distribution of all stores and the keeping of records in connection therewith.

 

"Storeperson" means a person who is responsible for the receipt and dispatch of stores items, and loading and unloading and internal transport of items.

 

"Technical Assistant" means a person who is wholly or substantially engaged in routine laboratory procedures of a technical or special nature, including routine biochemical, bacteriological or haematological tests or counts.

 

"Technical Officer-Grade I" means a person employed as such who is in possession of a Pathology Technicians Certificate issued by a recognised authority or equivalent qualifications.

 

"Technical Officer-Grade II" means a person who is in possession of the Pathology Technicians Higher Certificate or its equivalent.

 

"Union" means the Health Services Union

 

"Wardsperson" means a person who is required to undertake limited duties associated with the care of patients such as shaves, routine enemata, bathing of patients, general assistance with patients and cleaning duties.

 

3.  Wages

 

(i)         Employees shall be paid not less than the rates for the appropriate classification set out in Table 1, Rates of Pay, of Part B, Monetary Rates.

 

(ii)        The Rates of pay in this award include the adjustments payable under the State Wage Case 2003.  These adjustments may be off-set against:

 

(a)        any equivalent over-award payments, and/or

 

(b)        award wage increases since  29 May, 1991 other than safety net, State Wage Case, and minimum rates adjustments.

 

4.  Hours

 

(i)

 

(a)        The ordinary hours of work for day workers, exclusive of meal times, shall not exceed 152 hours per 28 calendar days or 76 hours per fortnight, to be worked Monday to Friday and to commence on such days at or after 5:30 a.m. and before 10:00 a.m.

 

(b)        The ordinary hours of work for shift workers, exclusive of meal times, shall not exceed 152 hours per 28 calendar days or 76 hours per fortnight or an average of 38 hours per week in each roster cycle.

 

(ii)        The ordinary hours of work for radiographers, exclusive of meal times, shall not exceed an average of 35 hours per week in each roster cycle.

 

(iii)

 

(a)        The hours of work prescribed in subclauses (i) and (ii) of this clause shall be arranged as follows:

 

(1)        152 hours in a 28 calendar day cycle to be arranged so that each employee shall not work his/her ordinary hours on more than 19 days in the cycle; or

 

(2)        190 hours per 35-calendar day cycle to be arranged so that each employee shall not work his/her ordinary hours on more than 19 days in the cycle.

 

(b)        Where this is not possible, the hours of work may be arranged in one of the following ways:

 

(1)        76 hours per fortnight to be arranged so that each employee shall not work his/her ordinary hours on more than ten days in the fortnight; or

 

(2)        38 hours per week to be arranged so that each employee shall not work his/her ordinary hours on more than five days in the week.

 

(c)        These hours will be adjusted proportionately for radiographers.

 

(iv)       Each employee shall be entitled to not less than four full days in each fortnight free from duty or two full days in each week free from duty and such rostered days off shall, where practicable, be consecutive.

 

(v)        Full-time employees shall receive a minimum payment of four hours for each start in respect of ordinary hours of work.  Permanent part-time employees and casual employees shall receive a minimum payment of two hours for each such start.

 

(vi)

 

(a)        An employee whose ordinary hours of work are arranged in accordance with paragraph (a) of subclause (iii) of this clause, shall be entitled to an allocated day off in each roster cycle of 28 calendar days or 35 calendar days, as the case may be.  Such employees shall have the hours worked on each of those days arranged to include a proportion of one hour on the basis of 0.4 of one hour for each eight-hour shift worked and 0.5 of one hour for each ten-hour shift which shall accumulate towards the employee's allocated day off.

 

(b)        The employee's allocated day off duty prescribed above shall be taken at an agreed time having regard to the needs of the place of employment.  Such allocated day off duty shall, where possible, be consecutive with the rostered days off prescribed in subclause (iv) of this clause. Provided that the employer and the employee may agree to accumulate up to twelve allocated days off per year, to be taken in conjunction with the employee's annual leave or, by mutual agreement, taken at another time within 18 months of such accrual occurring.

 

(c)        Allocated days off duty may not be rostered to occur on public holidays.

 

(d)        No time towards allocated days off duty shall accrue during periods of workers' compensation, long service leave, parental leave or any period of unpaid leave, or the statutory four weeks annual leave.

 

However, an employee returning to duty from the abovementioned leave shall be given the next allocated day off in sequence.

 

(e)        Where an employee's allocated day off duty falls during a period of paid sick leave the employee's available sick leave shall not be debited for that day.

 

(vii)      Each shift shall consist of not more than 11 ordinary hours of work per day.  Provided that shifts in excess of ten ordinary hours of work shall not occur on more than 7 consecutive days in any 8-day period.  Provided further that shifts of ten ordinary hours of work or less shall not occur on more than 11 consecutive days in any 12-day period.

 

(viii)     The ordinary hours of a permanent part-time employee will be a specified number of hours which are less than those prescribed for a full-time employee in subclauses (i) and (ii) of this clause.

 

The specified number of hours may be balanced over a week, or fortnight provided that the average weekly hours worked shall be deemed to be the specified number of hours for the purposes of accrual of leave provided for by this award.  Provided that there shall be no interruption to the continuity of employment merely by reason of an employee working on a "week on, week off" basis in accordance with this subclause.

 

(ix)       Except for meal breaks each day, all time from the commencement to the cessation of duty each day shall count as working time.

 

(x)        Two separate ten-minute tea breaks (in addition to meal breaks) shall be allowed to each employee on duty during each ordinary shift of 7.6 hours or more.  Where less than 7.6 ordinary hours are worked, employees shall be allowed one 10-minute break within each 4-hour period. Subject to agreement between the employer and the employee, the 2 ten-minute breaks may alternatively be taken as one 20-minute break, or as one 10-minute break with the employee allowed to proceed off duty 10 minutes before the completion of the normal shift finishing time.  Such break(s) shall count as working time.

 

(xi)       There shall be a minimum break of 8 hours between ordinary rostered shifts on successive days.

 

(xii)      Apprentices - The ordinary hours of work for apprentices shall be as prescribed in this clause, provided that no apprentice shall be required to perform work which would prevent the apprentice from attending classes at technical college.

 

5.  Roster of Hours

 

(i)         Each employee's ordinary hours of work shall be displayed on a roster in a place easily accessible to employees.  Where practicable, such roster shall be displayed two weeks, but in any case at least one week, prior to the commencement of the first working period in the roster.

 

(ii)        This provision shall not make it obligatory for the employer to display any roster for casual or relieving staff.

 

(iii)       A roster may be altered at any time to enable the services of the facility to be carried on where another employee is absent from duty on account of illness or in an emergency.  Where such alteration involves an employee working on a day which would have been his/her day off, such employee may elect to be paid at overtime rates or have a day off in lieu, which shall be mutually arranged.  Provided that this provision shall not apply where the only change to the roster of a part-time worker or a permanent part-time employee is the mutually agreed addition of extra hours to be worked such that the part-time worker or permanent part-time employee still has 2 rostered days off in that week or 4 rostered days off in that fortnight.  Provided further that any alteration to the roster of hours of a day worker must be consistent with the definition of a day worker contained in clause 2, Definitions.

 

(iv)       Where an employee is entitled to an allocated day off duty in accordance with clause 4, Hours, that allocated day off duty is to be shown on the roster of hours for that employee.

 

6.  Meals

 

(i)         An employee shall not be required to work more than six hours without a meal break. Such meal break shall be of between 30 and 60 minutes duration, and shall not count as time worked.

 

(ii)        Notwithstanding the provisions of subclause (i) of this clause, an employee required to work in excess of ten ordinary hours, shall be entitled to a 60-minute meal break.

 

Such time shall be taken as either two 30-minute meal breaks or one 60-minute meal break, subject to agreement between the employer and the employee.

 

(iii)       An employee who is required to work overtime for more than two hours and such overtime goes beyond 7:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. shall, at the option of the employer, be supplied with a meal or shall be paid the amounts set out in Item 1 of Table 2 - Other Rates and Allowances of Part B, Monetary Rates.

 

7.  Overtime

 

(i)         All time worked by employees outside the ordinary hours as contained in clause 4, Hours, and clause 5, Roster of Hours, shall be paid for at the rate of time and one half for the first two hours, and double time thereafter, on each day overtime is worked.  However, all overtime worked on public holidays shall be paid at the rate of double time and one half and all overtime worked on Sundays shall be paid at the rate of double time.

 

(ii)        Employees recalled to work overtime after leaving the premises, after their normal ceasing time, shall be paid for a minimum of four hours at the applicable overtime rate, for each time so recalled.  Provided that, except in unforeseen circumstances, an employee shall not be required to work the full 4 hours if the tasks he/she was recalled to perform are completed within a shorter period.

 

(iii)       An employee recalled to work overtime pursuant to subclause (ii) of this clause, shall be reimbursed reasonable travel expenses incurred in respect of the recall to work.

 

Provided that where employees elect to use their own vehicle, they shall be paid an allowance as set out in Item 2 of Table 2 - Other Rates and Allowances, of Part B.

 

(iv)       Where an employee works so much overtime that he/she is not given eight consecutive hours off duty prior to commencing ordinary hours of work, he/she shall be released after the completion of such overtime, until he/she has had eight consecutive hours off duty.  Such time off duty will occur without loss of pay for ordinary working time occurring during this absence.

 

Where an employer instructs such an employee to continue or resume work without having had eight consecutive hours off duty, the employee shall be paid at the rate of double time, until he/she is released from duty to take a break of at least ten consecutive hours.  Such time off duty will occur without loss of pay for ordinary working time occurring during this absence.

 

(v)        For the purposes of assessing overtime, each day shall stand alone.  Provided that, where any one period of overtime is continuous and extends beyond midnight, all overtime hours in this period shall be regarded as if they had occurred within the one day.

 

(vi)

 

(a)        All time worked by permanent part-time employees and casual employees in excess of the hours prescribed for a full-time employee employed on that shift in the section concerned, or, where no full-time employees are employed on that shift in the ward or section concerned, all time in excess of eleven hours, shall be paid for at the rate of time and one half for the first two hours and double time thereafter.  Except that on Sundays such overtime shall be paid for at the rate of double time and on public holidays at the rate of double time and one half.

 

Time worked up to the rostered daily ordinary hours of work prescribed for full-time employees employed on that shift in the section concerned shall not be regarded as overtime.

 

(b)        All time worked by permanent part-time employees and casual employees, in excess of the hours prescribed for a full-time employee in clause 4, Hours, shall be paid for at overtime rates.

 

8.  Part-Time Work

 

(i)         Permanent Part-time Employees -

 

(a)        A permanent part-time employee is one who is permanently appointed to work a specified number of hours which are less than those prescribed for a full-time employee.

 

(b)        Permanent part-time employees shall be paid an hourly rate calculated on the basis of one thirty-eighth of the appropriate rate prescribed by Table 1 - Rates of Pay, of Part B, Monetary Rates.

 

(c)        Permanent part-time employees shall be entitled to all other benefits of this award not otherwise expressly provided for herein in the same proportion as their ordinary hours of work bear to full-time hours.

 

(ii)        Part-time Workers -

 

(a)        Part-time Worker means a person who was employed as a part-time worker as at 13 June 1990, other than those part-time workers who had elected to transfer to permanent part-time employment as at 30 September 1993.

 

(b)        Employees employed as part-time workers as at 13 June 1990 who had not elected to transfer to permanent part-time employment before 30 September 1993, are employed as part-time workers under the following conditions:

 

(1)        Persons employed on a part-time basis may be employed for not less than eight hours nor more than thirty hours in any full week of seven days, such week to be coincidental with the pay period of each place of employment respectively, and shall be paid for the actual hours worked each week an hourly rate calculated on the basis of one thirty-eighth of the appropriate rate prescribed, plus 15 per cent thereof, which shall be the ordinary rates for the purposes of this award.  For radiographers, the calculation is to be one thirty-fifth of the appropriate rate, plus 15 per cent.

 

(2)        Where such employees are rostered for more than 30 hours in any week, they shall be paid as full 38-hour per week employees.

 

(3)        In an emergency, part-time employees may be allowed to work more than 30 hours in one week and in such case will be paid for the hours actually worked at a rate calculated in accordance with subparagraph (1) of this paragraph.

 

(4)        For weekend and public holiday work, part-time workers shall, in lieu of all other penalty rates and the 15 per cent part-time loading, receive the following rates:

 

(A)       time and one half for work between midnight Friday and midnight Saturday;

 

(B)       time and three quarters for work between midnight Saturday and midnight Sunday;

 

(C)       double time and one-half for work on a public holiday.

 

(5)        With respect to employees employed as part-time workers, the provisions of subclauses (iii) and (vi) of clause 4, Hours; clause 7, Overtime; clause 22, Relieving Other Members of Staff; and clause 24, Service Allowance, shall not apply.

 

(c)        Part-time workers employed under this subclause shall be transferred to permanent part-time employment under the following programme.  Such employees shall elect, by 30 September 1994, to become permanent part-time employees employed under the provisions of subclause (i) of this clause.

 

Employees who do not elect, by 30 September 1994, to transfer to permanent part-time employment shall automatically, on that date, become permanent part-time employees under the provisions of subclause (i) of this clause.

 

(1)        Where a part-time worker elects to become a permanent part-time employee, the employer shall provide such an employee, within six months of such election, with additional ordinary hours of work calculated on the basis of 15 per cent of the average hours worked by such employee over the three-month period ending the 24 September 1993, which, together with the average hours worked by such employee, shall form the specified number of hours of his/her appointment as a permanent part-time employee referred to in paragraph (a) of subclause (i).

 

(2)        The employee's status shall change from that of part-time worker under this subclause to that of permanent part-time employee under subclause (i) of this clause, effective from the date that the employer provides the employee with the additional hours of work or from the date six months after the date of the employee's election, whichever is the earlier.

 

Where the employer has not provided such additional hours of work by the date of the change of status, the employee shall be paid for the specified minimum number of hours calculated on the basis specified in subparagraph (1) of this paragraph.

 

(3)        Until this change of status, the employee shall continue to be paid in accordance with paragraph (a) of this subclause.

 

(4)        There shall be no reduction in the hours presently worked by existing part-time workers, permanent part-time employees or full-time employees in order to facilitate the introduction of this transfer programme.  All benefits and service accrued by part-time workers prior to their transfer taking place shall be recognised upon transfer to the selected category of employment.

 

9.  Casual Employees

 

(i)

 

(a)        A casual employee is one engaged on an hourly basis otherwise than as a permanent part-time employee or full-time employee.

 

(b)        A casual employee may only be engaged in the following circumstances:  for short term periods where there is a need to supplement the workforce arising from fluctuations in the needs of the facility; or in the place of another employee who is absent; or in an emergency.

 

(ii)        A casual employee shall be paid an hourly rate calculated on the basis of one thirty-eighth of the appropriate rate, prescribed by Table 1 - Rates of Pay, of Part B, Monetary Rates of this award, plus ten per cent thereof, with a minimum payment of two hours for each engagement and one-thirty-eighth of the uniform and laundry allowances, where a uniform is not supplied in accordance with clause 21, Uniforms and Protective Clothing. For radiographers, the hourly rate shall be calculated on the basis of 1/35th of the appropriate rate prescribed, plus 10 per cent thereof, and 1/35th of the uniform and laundry allowances, where a uniform is not supplied.

 

(iii)       A casual employee who is required to and does work on a public holiday prescribed by clause 13, Public Holidays, shall be paid double time and one half for all time worked in lieu of the 10 per cent allowance provided for in subclause (ii) of this clause.

 

(iv)       For weekend and public holiday work, casual employees shall, in lieu of all other penalty rates and the 10 per cent casual allowance, receive the following rates:

 

(a)        time and one-half for work between midnight Friday and midnight Saturday;

 

(b)        time and three-quarters for work between midnight Saturday and midnight Sunday;

 

(c)        double time and one-half for work on a public holiday.

 

(v)        Where overtime rates are payable, they shall be paid in lieu of the 10 per cent casual loading.

 

(vi)       For the entitlement to annual leave, see Annual Holidays Act 1944.

 

(vii)      For the entitlement to long service leave, see Long Service Leave Act 1955.

 

(viii)     With respect to a casual employee, the provisions of the following clauses shall not apply:  clause 24, Service Allowance; clause 17, Annual Leave Loading; clause 14, Sick Leave; clause 22, Relieving other Members of Staff clause 19, Compassionate Leave; clause 34, Award Benefits to be Continuous; clause 5, Roster of Hours; and clause 16, Annual Leave.

 

10.  Apprentices

 

(i)         Contracted apprentice means an employee who is serving a period of training under a training contract for the purpose of rendering him/her fit to be a qualified worker in the industry. Apprentices may be contracted to an organisation as Cooks or Gardeners.

 

(ii)        Apprenticeship means an apprenticeship established under Division 3 of Part 2 of the Apprenticeship and Traineeship Act 2001.

 

(iii)       The minimum rates of wages for apprentice cooks shall be the following percentages of the rate applicable to the classification of Cook Grade B, as varied from time to time:

 

1st Year	60%
2nd Year	82½%
3rd Year	92½%.

 

(iv)       The minimum rates of wages for apprentice gardeners shall be the following percentages of the rate applicable for the classification of Gardener (Qualified), as varied from time to time:

 

1st Year	50%
2nd Year	60%
3rd Year	80%
4th Year	90%.

 

(v)        Apprentices attending college for training shall be entitled to fares to and from home and college.

 

(vi)       The ordinary hours of work for apprentices shall be as prescribed in clause 4, Hours.

 

No apprentice shall be permitted or required to perform work which would prevent the apprentice from attending classes at TAFE.

 

(vii)      No apprentice shall be permitted or required to lift or carry by hand, a greater weight than:

 

	Male	Female
Under 16 years of age	14 kg	9 kg
Under 18 years of age	18 kg	11.5 kg
Over 18 years of age	18 kg	16 kg

 

(viii)     In addition to the above wages, an apprentice who obtains and hands to his/her employer, a certificate or statement of having passed his/her first year TAFE examination and in respect of whom a satisfactory report as to conduct, punctuality and progress is furnished by his/her employer shall be paid per week the amount set out in Item 3 of Table 2 - Other Rates and Allowances, of Part B, in addition to the rates prescribed in the ensuing 12 months, plus an additional amount per week as set out in the said Item 3 if they pass each subsequent year.

 

11.  Penalty Rates and Shift Allowances

 

(i)         Employees working less than the hours prescribed for full-time employees in clause 4, Hours, shall only be entitled to shift allowance rates where their shifts commence prior to 5:30 a.m. or finish after 6:00 p.m.

 

(ii)        Shift workers working afternoon or night shift shall be paid the following allowances in addition to their ordinary rate of pay:

 

Afternoon shift commencing at or after 10:00 a.m. and before 1:00 p.m. - 10%

 

Afternoon shift commencing at or after 1:00 p.m. and before 4:00 p.m.- 12½%

 

Night shift commencing at or after 4:00 p.m. and before 4:00 a.m. - 15%

 

Night shift commencing at or after 4:00 a.m. and before 5:30 a.m. - 10%.

 

Provided that, laundry staff working afternoon or night shift as at 30 September 1993 shall be paid 20% in addition to the ordinary rate for such shifts.  All laundry staff employed after 30 September 1993 shall receive the shift allowances prescribed above.

 

(iii)       Employees whose ordinary working hours include work on a Saturday or Sunday shall be paid:

 

(a)        for work between midnight Friday and midnight on Saturday - time and one half;

 

(b)        for work between midnight Saturday and midnight on Sunday - time and three quarters.

 

These penalties shall be in substitution for and not cumulative upon the shift allowances expressed in subclause (ii).

12.  Allowances for Special Working Conditions

 

(i)         Employees who are required to drive a vehicle as part of their normal duties (excluding ambulance, bus or other motor vehicle drivers), shall be paid an allowance of the amount per week as set out in item 4 of Table 2 - Other Rates and Allowances, of Part B, in addition to their ordinary salary for each week in which they are required to drive a vehicle.

 

(a)        Provided that, an employee required to drive more than 10 hours in any week shall be paid the appropriate rate for a motor vehicle driver for the time spent driving with a minimum payment per week of the amount set out in the said Item 4.

 

(b)        An employee who drives a vehicle for more than 4 hours in any one day or shift, shall be paid as a motor vehicle driver for that day or shift, with a minimum payment as set out in Item 4.

 

(c)        An employee required to drive for more than 20 hours in any week shall be paid as motor vehicle driver for that week.

 

(d)        This subclause shall not apply to any employee in receipt of a salary in excess of that prescribed in this award for a motor vehicle driver, and this subclause shall not apply to any employee who is required to relieve the driver of any motor vehicle and who is entitled to be paid in accordance with clause 22, Relieving other Members of Staff.

 

(ii)

 

(a)        Any employee required to assist in post mortem work (other than a post mortem assistant) shall be paid per week the amount set out in Item 5 of the said Table 2 in addition to their ordinary salary, for each week they are so engaged.

 

(b)        Provided that, where an employee assists in more than one post mortem per week, they shall be paid per post mortem the amount as set out in Item 5 of Table 2 in lieu of the allowance expressed in paragraph (a) of this subclause.

 

(iii)       Employees engaged in work of a dirty or offensive nature and/or cleaning or scraping work in confined spaces (such as inside ventilator shafts, air conditioner ducts or the like) shall, whilst so employed, be paid the amount per hour as out in Item 6 of Table 2 in addition to ordinary or overtime rates of pay.

 

Provided however, that employees engaged in cleaning and scraping work inside the gas or water space of any boiler, flue or economiser shall, whilst so employed be paid an amount per hour as set out in Item 7 of Table 2 in addition to ordinary or overtime rate of pay.

 

(iv)       Employees who are required to assist tradesmen on work of a dirty or offensive nature shall be paid disability allowances under the same terms and conditions as the disability allowances that may be payable to the tradesmen they are assisting.

 

(v)        An employee required to handle linen of a nauseous nature (other than in sealed linen bags) shall be paid an allowance per hour of the amount as set out in Item 8 of Table 2.

 

(vi)       An employee sent to work away from their regular place of work shall be reimbursed all reasonable travel expenses in excess of those normally incurred.

 

(vii)      An employee appointed as a Leading Hand, who in addition to his ordinary duties is in charge of not less than two other employees, shall be paid an allowance as part of salary as set out in Item 9 of Table 2.

 

13.  Public Holidays

 

(i)         For the purpose of this award the following shall be deemed to be public holidays, viz: New Year's Day; Australia Day; Good Friday; Easter Saturday; Easter Monday; Anzac Day; Queen's Birthday; Eight Hour day; Christmas Day; Boxing Day; and any other day duly proclaimed and observed as a public holiday within the area in which the place of employment is situated.

 

(ii)        In addition to those public holidays specified in subclause (i), employees shall be entitled to an extra public holiday each year.  Such public holiday shall occur on the day on which August Bank Holiday is observed, or at the election of the employer may be transferred as an additional public holiday to a day between Christmas and New Year.

 

Any individual employer wishing to transfer the August Bank holiday shall nominate before 1 July of each calendar year the day on which the additional public holiday is to be observed.  Such date shall occur within the days Monday to Friday inclusive and shall not coincide with a date that is already a gazetted public holiday for that calendar year.  Once such an election is made, such date then becomes the date on which the additional public holiday is to be observed for all workers in that establishment covered by this award.

 

(iii)       Public holidays shall be allowed to employees without loss of ordinary pay.

 

(iv)       An employee who is required to and does work on any public holiday prescribed in this clause, shall be paid in lieu of all other shift allowances, weekend penalty rates, casual loading and part-time loading, as follows:

 

(a)        Full-time employees:

 

(1)        one half time extra for all time worked plus one day's pay in addition to the weekly rate;

 

(2)        alternatively, if the employee so elects - one half time extra for all time worked in addition to the weekly rate and have one ordinary working day added to the period of annual leave.

 

(b)        Permanent part-time employees:

 

(1)        time and one-half extra for all time worked, in addition to the weekly rate;

 

(2)        alternatively, if the employee so elects - one-half extra for all time worked and the equivalent number of hours worked added to annual leave;

 

(c)        Casual employees and part-time workers shall be paid at the rate of double time and one half for all time worked.

 

(v)        Full-time shift-workers rostered off duty on a public holiday shall:

 

(a)        be paid one day's pay in addition to the weekly rate; or

 

(b)        if the employee so elects - have one day added to their period of annual leave.

 

(vi)       The elections provided for in subclauses (iv) and (v) shall not be altered by the employee during the currency of this award, unless agreed to by the employer.

 

(vii)      Part-time workers working 30 hours per week over five days per week shall be entitled to payment for public holidays falling on a rostered day off.

 

14.  Sick Leave

 

(i)         An employee shall not be entitled to sick leave until after 3 months continuous service with the employer. 

 

(ii)        A full-time employee shall be entitled to sick leave on full pay, calculated by allowing seventy-six ordinary hours for each year of continuous service.  Any unused sick leave shall remain to the employee's credit.

 

(iii)       Provided, however, that for radiographers such leave shall be allowed on the basis of seventy ordinary hours for each year of continuous service.

 

(iv)       Permanent part-time employees and part-time workers shall be entitled to sick leave in the same proportion as the average weekly hours worked over the preceding twelve months or from the time of the commencement of employment, whichever is the lesser, bears to thirty-eight ordinary hours of one week.  Such entitlements shall be subject to all the conditions applying to full-time employees.

 

(v)        Each employee shall notify their employer of their absence from work due to illness, where practicable prior to the commencement of their ordinary working time or rostered shift, and shall inform the employer of the expected duration of the absence.

 

(vi)       The employer shall not change the rostered hours of work of an employee fixed by the roster or rosters applicable to the seven days immediately following the commencement of sick leave merely by reason of the fact that the employee is on sick leave.

 

(vii)      All periods of sickness shall be certified to by the medical superintendent or matron of the hospital or by a legally qualified medical practitioner approved by the hospital; provided however that the employer shall dispense with the requirement of a medical certificate where the absence does not exceed two consecutive days or where in the employer's opinion the circumstances are such as not to warrant such requirements.

 

(viii)     An employee shall not be entitled to sick leave for a period during which the employee is receiving workers' compensation.

 

(ix)       Notwithstanding subclause (viii), where an employee continues to receive workers' compensation for a period in excess of 26 weeks, the employer shall pay to the employee the difference between the amount received as workers' compensation and their full weekly wage until all the employee's sick leave entitlement under this clause has been used.

 

15.  State Personal/Carer's Leave

 

(1)        Use of Sick Leave

 

(a)        An employee, other than a casual employee, with responsibilities in relation to a class of person set out in subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (c), who needs the employee's care and support, shall be entitled to use, in accordance with this subclause, any current or accrued sick leave entitlement, provided for in clause 14, Sick Leave, for absences to provide care and support, for such persons when they are ill.  Such leave may be taken for part of a single day.

 

(b)        The employee shall, if required, establish either by production of a medical certificate or statutory declaration, the illness of the person concerned and that the illness is such as to require care by another person. In normal circumstances, an employee must not take carer's leave under this subclause where another person has taken leave to care for the same person.

 

(c)        The entitlement to use sick leave in accordance with this subclause is subject to:

 

(i)         the employee being responsible for the care of the person concerned; and

 

(ii)        the person concerned being:

 

(A)       a spouse of the employee; or

 

(B)       a de facto spouse, who, in relation to a person, is a person of the opposite sex to the first mentioned person who lives with the first mentioned person as the husband or wife of that person on a bona fide domestic basis although not legally married to that person; or

 

(C)       a child or an adult child (including an adopted child, a step child, a foster child or an ex-nuptial child), parent (including a foster parent and legal guardian), grandparent, grandchild or sibling of the employee or spouse or de-facto spouse of the employee; or

 

(D)       a same sex partner who lives with the employee  as the  de facto partner of that employee on a bona fide domestic basis; or

 

(E)        a relative of the employee who is a member of the same household, where for the purposes of this subparagraph:

 

(1)        "relative" means a person related by blood, marriage or affinity;

 

(2)        "affinity"   means   a relationship  that  one spouse because of marriage has to blood relatives of the other; and

 

(3)        "household" means a family group living in the same domestic dwelling.

 

(d)        An employee shall, wherever practicable, give the employer notice prior to the absence of the intention to take leave, the name of the person requiring care and that person's relationship to the employee, the reasons for taking such leave and the estimated length of absence. If it is not practicable for the employee to give prior notice of absence, the employee shall notify the employer by telephone of such absence at the first opportunity on the day of absence.

 

(2)        Unpaid Leave for Family Purpose - An employee may elect, with the consent of the employer, to take unpaid leave for the purpose of providing care and support to a member of a class of person set out in subparagraph  (ii) of paragraph (c) of subclause (1) who is ill.

 

(3)        Annual Leave -

 

(a)        An employee may elect with the consent of the employer, subject to the Annual Holidays Act 1944, to take annual leave not exceeding five days in single day periods or part thereof, in any calendar year at a time or times agreed by the parties.

 

(b)        Access to annual leave, as prescribed in paragraph (a) of this subclause, shall be exclusive of any shutdown period provided for elsewhere under this award.

 

(c)        An employee and employer may agree to defer payment of the annual leave loading in respect of single day absences, until at least five consecutive annual leave days are taken or a week's annual leave is taken.

 

(4)        Time Off in Lieu of Payment for Overtime -

 

(a)        An employee may elect, with the consent of the employer, to take time off in lieu of payment for overtime at a time or times agreed with the employer within 12 months of the said election.

 

(b)        Overtime taken as time off during ordinary time hours shall be taken at the ordinary time rate, that is an hour for each hour worked.

 

(c)        If, having elected to take time as leave in accordance with paragraph (a) of this subclause, the leave is not taken for whatever reason payment for time accrued at overtime rates shall be made at the expiry of the 12-month period or on termination.

 

(d)        Where no election is made in accordance with the said paragraph (a), the employee shall be paid overtime rates in accordance with the award.

 

(5)        Make-up Time -

 

(a)        An employee may elect, with the consent of the employer, to work "make-up time", under which the employee takes time off ordinary hours, and works those hours at a later time, during the spread of ordinary hours provided in the award, at the ordinary rate of pay.

 

(b)        An employee on shift work may elect, with the consent of the employer, to work "make-up time" (under which the employee takes time off ordinary hours and works those hours at a later time), at the shift work rate which would have been applicable to the hours taken off.

 

(6)        Allocated Days Off -

 

(a)        An employee may elect, with the consent of the employer, to take a allocated day off at any time.

 

(b)        An employee may elect, with the consent of the employer, to take allocated days off in part day amounts.

 

(c)        An employee may elect, with the consent of the employer, to accrue some or all allocated days off for the purpose of creating a bank to be drawn upon at a time mutually agreed between the employer and employee, or subject to reasonable notice by the employee or the employer.

 

(d)        This subclause is subject to the employer informing each union which is both party to the award and which has members employed at the particular enterprise of its intention to introduce an enterprise system of RDO flexibility, and providing a reasonable opportunity for the union(s) to participate in negotiations.

 

16.  Annual Leave

 

(i)         All employees shall be entitled to the provisions of the Annual Holidays Act 1944.

 

(ii)        Provided that radiographers and trainee radiographers and boiler attendants working a seven day roster shall be entitled to five weeks' annual leave.

 

(iii)       Employees, other than part-time workers and those referred to in subclause (ii) above, who are rostered to work their ordinary hours on Sundays and/or public holidays shall be entitled to receive additional annual leave on the following basis:

 

(a)        1 week for 35 ordinary shifts on Sundays and/or public holidays;

 

(b)        if they have worked less than 35 ordinary shifts on Sundays and/or public holidays, the following shall apply:

 

	Full-time	Permanent Part-time
	Employees	Employees
3 shifts or less	Nil	0
4-10 shifts	1 day	0.2 weeks
11-17 shifts	2 days	0.4 weeks
18-24 shifts	3 days	0.6 weeks
25-32 shifts	4 days	0.8 weeks
32 or more	5 days	1 week

 

(iv)       Annual leave shall be given by the employer and shall be taken by the employee before the expiration of a period of six months after the date upon which the employee becomes entitled to such leave.

 

(v)        Except as provided in subclause (ix), payment shall not be made by an employer to an employee in lieu of any annual leave or part thereof to which the employee is entitled nor shall any such payment be accepted by the employee.

 

(vi)       The employer shall give to each employee three months' notice where practicable and not less than one month's notice of the date upon which the employee shall enter upon annual leave.

 

(vii)      Where the annual leave or any part thereof has been taken before the right thereto has accrued, the right to further annual leave shall not commence to accrue until after the expiration of the year of employment in which that annual leave accrued.

 

(viii)     Where the employment of an employee is terminated, the employee shall be entitled to receive, in addition to all other amounts due, an amount equivalent to 1/12th of the employee's ordinary pay in respect of an incomplete year of employment.  Radiographers shall be entitled to receive 5/47ths in lieu of the 1/12th referred to.

 

(ix)       Credit of time towards an allocated day off duty shall not accrue when an employee is on ordinary annual leave, in accordance with subclause (i) of this clause.

 

(x)        For other conditions relating to the grant of annual leave, see the Annual Holidays Act 1944.

 

17.  Annual Leave Loading

 

(i)         Employees who become entitled to annual leave under clause 16 of this award shall receive an annual leave loading of 17½% of the appropriate ordinary rate of pay for the classification in which the employee was employed immediately before commencing annual leave.  Such rate of pay shall include the following award allowances, namely:  leading hand allowance; qualification allowances; service allowance; part-time allowance; but shall not include any penalty or overtime rates prescribed by this award.

 

(ii)        No loading is payable where the annual holiday is taken wholly or party in advance, provided however, that if the employment of such an employee continues until the day upon which they would have become entitled under clause 16 of this award to such annual holiday, the loading then becomes payable, in respect of the period of such holiday and is to be calculated in accordance with the award rate of wages applicable on such day.

 

(iii)       Before an employee is given and takes his/her annual holiday or where by agreement between the employer and employee the annual holiday is given and taken in more than one separate period, then before each of such separate periods, the employer shall pay the employee the loading in accordance with subclause (i) of this clause.

 

(iv)       Where the employment of an employee is terminated by the employer for a cause other than misconduct and, at the time of termination, the employee has not been given and has not taken any annual holidays which have accrued on a pro-rata basis they shall be paid the loading provided for in subclause (i) of this clause for the period not taken.

 

(v)        Where an employee who is a shift worker as defined in clause 2, Definitions, of this award, is given and takes an annual holiday they shall be paid the loading set out in subclause (i) of this clause, provided that if the amount to which the employee would have been entitled by way of shift work allowances and weekend penalty rates for the ordinary time (not including time on a public holiday) which the employee would have worked during the period of the holiday exceeds the loading calculated in accordance with this clause, then that amount shall be paid to the employee in lieu of the loading.

 

18.  Long Service Leave

 

(i)         Every employee after ten years' continuous service with the same employer shall be entitled to two months' long service leave on full pay; after fifteen years' continuous service to an additional one month's long service leave on full pay; and for each five years' continuous service thereafter to an additional one and one half months' long service leave on full pay.  Such leave shall be taken at a time to be mutually arranged between the employer and the employee.

 

(ii)        Where the service of an employee with at least five years' service is terminated, the employee shall be entitled for five years' service to one month's long service leave on full pay and for service after five years to a proportionate amount of such leave on full pay calculated on the basis of 2 months' long service leave for 10 years' service.

 

Where an employee has acquired a right to long service leave under this clause, then and in every such case:

 

(a)        If before such leave has been entered upon, the employment of such employee has been terminated, such employee shall be entitled to receive the monetary value of the leave to which such employee has been entitled computed at the rate of salary which such employee had been receiving immediately prior to the termination of employment.

 

(b)        If an employee dies before entering upon long service leave, or if after having entered upon the same, dies before its termination, the employee's partner or children or other dependent relatives or their legal representatives, shall be entitled to receive the monetary value of the leave not taken or not completed, as the case may be, and computed at the rate of salary which the employee had been receiving at the time of death.

 

(iii)       For the purpose of this clause:

 

(a)        one month equals four and one third weeks;

 

(b)        continuous service with the same employer or in the same place of employment prior to the coming into force of this award shall be taken into account;

 

(c)        continuous service shall be deemed not to have been broken by:

 

(1)        any period of absence on leave without pay not exceeding six months;  or

 

(2)        absence of an employee from the place of employment whilst a member of the Defence Forces of the Commonwealth in time of war;  or

 

(3)        any period of absence on parental leave taken by the employee in accordance with the Industrial Relations Act 1996.

 

(iv)       Where any employee has been granted a period of long service leave prior to the coming into force of this award the amount of such leave shall be debited against the amount of leave due under this award.

 

(v)        Any period(s) of part-time employment with the same employer shall count towards long service leave.  The payment for such long service leave shall be calculated on the basis of the proportion that the average number of hours worked per week bears to 38 hours.

 

(vi)       Where an employee has accrued a right to an allocated day off duty on pay prior to entering a period of long service leave, such day shall be taken on the next working day immediately following the period of long service leave.

 

An employee returning to duty from long service leave shall be given the next allocated day off duty in sequence irrespective of whether sufficient credits have been accumulated or not.

 

19.  Compassionate Leave

 

(i)         In general, compassionate leave with pay should be granted only in extraordinary or emergency circumstances where an employee is forced to absent themselves from duty because of urgent pressing necessity and such leave as is granted should be limited to the time necessary to cover the immediate emergency.

 

(ii)        Any absence occasioned by personal exigencies which might fairly be regarded as an obligation on the employee, rather than the employer, to make good, should be covered by the grant of leave without pay or, if the employee so desires, by taking annual leave.

 

(iii)       The following basic principles should be kept in mind when dealing with applications:

 

(a)        Deaths and funerals of mother, father, husband, wife, son, daughter, sister, brother, grandparent, parents-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law or grandchild;

 

In general, compassionate leave with pay should be limited to one day; provided that where the employee is involved in funeral arrangements, travelling, etc., leave may be allowed for up to three days.  Leave with pay would not ordinarily be granted for the death or attendance at the funeral of a relative other than those mentioned, unless special circumstances exist, e.g. the employee resided with the deceased.

 

(b)        Illness in the family:

 

Except in very special circumstances leave with pay should be limited to one day, which as a general rule, would prove sufficient time to meet the immediate emergency and allow the employee to make any other arrangements necessary.  It would be expected that no one but the employee would be available to care for the sick member of the family.

 

(iv)       The above principles are not intended to codify completely the purposes for which compassionate leave with pay may be allowed.  The element of unforeseen emergency could be present in other situations, e.g. floods and bushfires, which clearly prevent attendance for duty.

 

(v)        In view of the purpose for which compassionate leave is intended, it is not possible to prescribe a precise limitation of the amount of leave to be granted in a given period.  It is suggested, however, that only under the most exceptional circumstances should leave exceeding a total of three days be granted to an employee in any year.

 

20.  Accommodation and Amenities

 

(i)         The minimum standards set in the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation 2001 shall be met in the provision of amenities for staff.

 

(ii)        Such amenities must include:

 

(a)        change rooms and lockers - lockers shall be of the "lock up" type, with keys provided;

 

(b)        meal room;

 

(c)        facilities for boiling water, warming and refrigerating food and for washing and storing dining utensils;

 

(d)        rest room;

 

(e)        washing and bathing facilities;

 

(f)         sanitary conveniences.

 

21.  Uniforms and Protective Clothing

 

(i)         Sufficient suitable and serviceable uniforms or overalls shall be supplied, free of cost, to each employee required by the employer to wear them.  An employee, to whom a new uniform or part of a uniform has been issued who, without good reason, fails to return the corresponding article last supplied, shall not be entitled to have such article replaced without payment of a reasonable price for such replacement article.

 

(ii)        An employee on the termination of their employment shall return any uniform or part thereof supplied by the employer, which is still in use by the employee immediately prior to leaving.

 

(iii)       In lieu of supplying a uniform to an employee, the employer shall pay to such employee the amount per week as set out in Item 10 of Table 2 - Other Rates and Allowances of Part B provided however, that if a uniform includes cardigan, stockings or special type shoes, these shall be supplied by the employer.

 

(iv)       If a uniform of an employee is not laundered at the expense of the employer, an allowance of the amount per week as set out in Item 11 of the said Table 2 shall be paid to the employee, provided that the payment of such laundry allowance shall not be made to any employee on absences exceeding one week.

 

(v)        The employee shall keep any uniform supplied to them in a reasonable and presentable condition.

 

(vi)       Each employee who is required to work out of doors shall be supplied with overboots.  Sufficient raincoats shall also be made available for use by these employees.

 

(vii)      Each employee who is required to work in potentially hazardous situations with, or near machinery, shall be supplied with appropriate protective clothing and equipment.

 

22.  Relieving Other Members of Staff

 

(i)         An employee required by the employer or some other authorised representative to relieve another employee paid on a higher scale shall be paid for the time so spent at the rate prescribed for the employee so relieved.

 

(ii)        This subclause shall not apply when an employee in a higher grade is absent from duty by reason of his/her allocated day off duty as a consequence of working a 38-hour week.

 

23.  Payment and Particulars of Wages

 

(i)         Wages shall be paid either weekly or fortnightly, provided that, for the purpose of adjustment of wages related to alterations in the basic wage, from time to time effective, the pay period shall be deemed to be weekly.

 

(ii)        On each pay day the pay shall be made up to a day not more than five days prior to the date of payment.

 

(iii)       Employees shall have their wages paid by direct deposit or electronic transfer into one account with a bank or other financial institution in New South Wales as nominated by the employee, except where agreement as to payment by cheque or cash has been reached between the Union and the employer due to the isolation of the place of employment.

 

(iv)       Wages shall be deposited by the employer in sufficient time to ensure that wages are available for withdrawal by employees by close of business on pay day.  Where the wages are not available to the employee by such time, due to circumstances beyond the employer's control, the employer shall not be held accountable for such delay.

 

(v)        Where the services of an employee are terminated with due notice all monies owing shall be paid upon cessation of employment but, in the case of termination without due notice, within the next three working days.

 

(vi)       On pay day, each employee shall be provided with a pay slip which specifies the following particulars:

 

(a)        name and date of payment;

 

(b)        the period for which the payment is made;

 

(c)        the gross amount of wages, including overtime and other earnings;

 

(d)        the ordinary hourly rate;

 

(e)        the amount paid as overtime or such information as will enable the amount paid as overtime to be calculated by the employee;

 

(f)         the amount of other earnings and the purpose for which they are paid;

 

(g)        the amount deducted for taxation purposes;

 

(h)        the particulars of all other deductions;

 

(i)         the net amount paid.

 

(vii)      Where an employer has overpaid an employee, the employer shall notify the employee of such overpayment and how such overpayment is made up, in writing, and may recover such amount, with the agreement of the employee as to the amount of the overpayment and the method of such recovery.  This subclause authorises the use of deductions from wages for the purpose of such recovery.  All such deductions from wages must be authorised in writing by the employee.

 

24.  Service Allowance

 

(i)         All employees, appointed before 1st October, 1986, after ten years' continuous service with the same facility shall be paid in addition to the rates prescribed in Table 1, Rates of Pay of Part B, a long service bonus of the amount set out in the following scale:

 

10 years' and under 15 years' service-	5%
15 years' and under 20 years' service-	7½%
20 years of service and over-	10%.

 

(ii)        Payments due under this clause shall be made on the usual pay day when other payments under the award are made.

 

(iii)       Continuous service in the same facility prior to the commencement of this award shall be taken into account for the purposes of this clause.

 

(iv)       For the purpose of this clause, continuous service shall not be deemed to have been broken by absence from the facility whilst a member of the defence forces of the Commonwealth in time of war or for periods of unpaid leave granted to the employee by the employer.

 

25.  Inspection of Lockers

 

Lockers may only be opened for inspection in the presence of the employee, but in cases where the employee neglects or refuses to be present or in any circumstances where notice to the employee is impracticable such inspection may be carried out in the absence of the employee by an officer of the employer and a union representative where practicable, otherwise by any two authorised representatives of the employer appointed for that purpose.

 

26.  Grievance Procedures

 

(i)         The following procedures shall be followed in relation to grievances of individual employees:

 

(a)        The employee is required to notify the employer, preferably in writing, as to the substance of the grievance, request a meeting with the employer for discussions and state the remedy sought.

 

(b)        A grievance must initially be dealt with as close to its source as possible with graduated steps for further discussion and resolution at higher levels of authority.

 

(c)        Reasonable time limits must be allowed for discussion at each level of authority.

 

(d)        At the conclusion of the discussion, the employer must provide a response to the employee's grievance, and, if the matter has not been resolved, include reasons for not implementing any proposed remedy.

 

(e)        While the procedure is being followed normal work must continue.

 

(f)         The employee may be represented by an industrial organisation of employees, if they so request.

 

(ii)        The following procedures shall be followed in relation to disputes, etc., between employers and their employees:

 

(a)        A question, dispute or difficulty must initially be dealt with as close to its source as possible, with graduated steps for further discussion and resolution at higher levels of authority.

 

(b)        Reasonable time limits must be allowed for discussion at each level of authority.

 

(c)        Whilst such procedure is being followed, normal work must continue.

 

(d)        The employer may be represented by an industrial organisation of employers and the employees may be represented by an industrial organisation of employees.

 

(iii)       In the case of employers who employ not more than 20 employees, or where employees are subject to a management structure under which all employees are directly supervised and controlled by the employer or chief executive, graduated steps for further discussion and resolution at higher levels of authority do not apply.

 

(iv)       The Union reserves the right to vary this procedure where it is considered that an occupational health and safety factor is involved.

 

27.  Anti-Discrimination

 

(1)        It is intention of the parties bound by this award to seek to achieve the object in section 3(f) of 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, age and responsibilities as a carer.

 

(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 in their effects.  It will be consistent with the fulfilment of these obligations for the parties to make application to vary any provision of the award which, by its terms or operation, has a direct or indirect discriminatory effect.

 

(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.

 

(4)        Nothing in this clause is to be taken to affect:

 

(a)        any conduct or act which is specifically exempted from anti-discrimination legislation;

 

(b)        offering or providing junior rates of pay to persons under 21 years of age;

 

(c)        any act or practice of a body established to propagate religion which is exempted under section 56(d) of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977;

 

(d)        a party to this award from pursuing matters of unlawful discrimination in any State or Federal jurisdiction.

 

(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".

 

28.  Labour Flexibility

 

(i)         An employer may direct an employee to carry out such duties as are within the limits of the employee's skill, competence and training.  Such duties may include work which is incidental or peripheral to the employee's main tasks provided that such duties are not designed to promote deskilling.

 

(ii)        The employer may direct an employee to carry out such duties and use such tools and equipment as may be required provided that the employee has been properly trained in the use of such tools and equipment.

 

(iii)       Any direction issued by the employer pursuant to subclause (i) and/or (ii) shall be consistent with the employer's responsibilities to provide a safe and healthy working environment for employees and the employer's duty of care to patients.

 

29.  Termination of Employment

 

(i)         One week's notice of termination of employment shall be given by the employer or the employee, respectively, but where the employee is dismissed for serious and wilful misconduct such notice of termination of employment shall not apply.

 

(ii)        Where the employer terminates the services of an employee without due notice the employee shall be paid one week's salary in lieu thereof.  Where the employee fails to give the prescribed notice, then the employer may withhold up to one week's wages from the pay period current at the time of termination.

 

(iii)       Provided that in the case of casual employees, one hour's notice shall apply.

 

30.  Attendance at Meetings and Fire Drills

 

(i)         An employee required to attend occupational health and safety committee and/or board of management meetings as an employee representative shall, if such meetings are held outside the ordinary hours of work, be entitled to receive payment at the "ordinary rate" for the actual time spent in attendance at such meetings.  In lieu of receiving payment, employees may, with the agreement of the employer, be permitted to be free from duty for a period of time equivalent to the period spent in attendance at such meetings.  Such time spent in attendance shall not be viewed as overtime for the purposes of this award.

 

(ii)        An employee in attendance at compulsory fire safety practices (e.g. fire drill and evacuation procedures) in accordance with the requirements of the Private Hospitals and Day Procedures Centres Act 1988 and the regulations thereto, shall be paid for the time spent in attendance at their "ordinary rate" where such time is concurrent or continuous with their shift on that day.  Where such time spent in attendance is not continuous with their rostered shift, then the provisions of clause 7, Overtime shall apply.

 

31.  Union Representative

 

An employee appointed union representative shall, upon notification thereof in writing to the employer, within 14 days of such appointment, be recognised as the accredited representative of the union and shall be allowed reasonable time during working hours to interview the employer on matters affecting employees.

 

32.  Notice Board

 

The employer shall permit a notice board of reasonable dimensions to be erected in a prominent position, upon which the union representative shall be permitted to post union notices.

 

The employer shall keep exhibited a copy of this award.

 

33.  Blood Counts

 

Radiographers and those employees who are regularly required to assist and/or work with the radiologist and/or radiographers in close proximity to radioactive radiators shall have blood counts carried out every three months upon making application therefore to the place of employment.

 

34.  Award Benefits to be Continuous

 

(i)         In the event of any change in ownership, licensee or management of any place of employment covered by this award, all employee rights and benefits provided by this award shall continue as if no such change in ownership, licensee or management had taken place.

 

(ii)        Where such changes do occur, no employee shall be paid out for accrued annual leave, long service leave or any other benefit, but such benefits shall be continuous.

 

(iii)       No employee, full-time or part-time, shall be terminated or required to take leave without pay, where such termination or leave is used to avoid the requirements of any Act or to avoid payment of any rights or benefits provided by this award.

 

35.  New Positions

 

An employer may create any new position of a classification not covered by the award to which these conditions apply at any time and may fix the remuneration thereof but in such circumstances the employer shall advise the union of such decision within 28 days and give an opportunity to the representatives of the union to confer with the representatives of the employer and the Private Hospitals Association of NSW as to the rate of wages so fixed for the duties to be performed and the hours the employee is required to work.

 

36.  Exemptions

 

This award shall not apply to Novices, aspirants or persons who have taken vows of religious orders.

 

37.  Reasonable Hours

 

(i)         Subject to subclause (ii) an employer may require an employee to work reasonable overtime at overtime rates.

 

(ii)        An employee may refuse to work overtime in circumstances where the working of such overtime would result in the employee working hours which are unreasonable.

 

(iii)       For the purposes of subclause (ii) what is reasonable or other wise will be determined having regard to:

 

(a)        any risk to employee health and safety.

 

(b)        The employee’s personal circumstances including any family and carer responsibilities.

 

(c)        The needs of the workplace or enterprise.

 

(d)        The notice (if any) given by the employer of the overtime and by the employee of his or her intention to refuse it; and

 

(e)        Any other relevant matter.

 

38.  Area, Incidence and Duration

 

(i)         This award was made following a review under section 19 of the Industrial Relations Act 1996.

 

(ii)        The award rescinds and replaces the Private Hospital Employees (State) Award published 25 January 2001 (321 I.G. 1008) and all variations thereof. 

 

(iii)       It shall apply to employees performing the functions comprehended by the classes of labour in clause 2, Definitions, clause 3, Wages, and Table 1 of Part B, subject to clause 35, New Positions, and clause 36, Exemptions, employed in private hospitals licensed under the Private Hospitals and Day Procedures Centres Act 1988, in the State, excluding the County of Yancowinna.

 

(iv)       This award shall take effect on and from 5 February 2004 and shall remain in force for a period of 12 months.

 

PART B

 

MONETARY RATES

 

Table 1 - Rates of Pay

 

Classification				SWC 2003			Wage Rate
	Current Rate			Adjustment			As from1.10.03
	Per week			Per week			Per week
	$			$			$
Administrative Staff
Clerk - Age Scale:
Under 18 years of age	298.50			3.2%			308.10
Clerk - Grade I
First year of service	475.30			17.00			492.30
Second year of service	488.60			17.00			505.60
Third year of service	500.70			17.00			517.70
Fourth year of service	510.70			17.00			527.70
Fifth year of service and thereafter	520.70			17.00			537.70
Clerk - Grade II
First year of service	537.30			17.00			554.30
Second year of service and thereafter	552.30			17.00			569.30
Clerk - Grade III
First year of service	567.60			17.00			584.60
Second year of service and thereafter	580.90			17.00			597.90
Clerk - Grade IV
First year of service	593.70			17.00			610.70
Second year of service and thereafter	605.50			17.00			622.50
Clerk - Grade V
First year of service	621.10			17.00			638.10
Second year of service and thereafter	633.60			17.00			650.60
Provided that employees on the Age Scale who are substantially engaged on stenographic duties, or as a
comptometer or ledger positing machine operator, shall be paid a weekly allowance as part of salary of the
amount per week set out in Item 12 of Table 2 - Other Rates and Allowances.
Central Sterile Supply Department
Aides -
Junior Scale -
Under 18 years of age			331.30		3.2%		341.90
Adult -
First year of service			504.10		17.00		521.10
Second year of service			511.90		17.00		528.90
Third year of service & thereafter			519.80		17.00		536.80
Assistant Supervisor of C.S.S.D.
500 beds and over			608.90		17.00		625.90
200 but less than 500 beds			555.50		17.00		572.50
100 but less than 200 beds			538.10		17.00		555.10
Supervisor of C.S.S.D.
500 beds and over			707.30		17.00		724.30
200 but less than 500 beds			656.30		17.00		673.30
100 but less than 200 beds			608.90		17.00		625.90
Central Sterile Supply Department Aides, other than Supervisors and Assistant Supervisors, who possess the
Sterilising Certificate, shall be paid an allowance of the amount per week as set out in Item 13 of Table 2 -
Other Rates and Allowances.
Maintenance Staff
Boiler Attendant -
Certificated			508.60		17.00			525.60
With Maintenance of Plant Duties			513.50		17.00			530.50
Where a boiler attendant attends to more than one boiler and/or performs work other than that of a boiler
attendant he shall be paid an additional amount per week as set out in Item 14 of Table 2-Other Rates and
Allowances.
Maintenance Supervisor (Non-Tradesman) -
In charge of staff			587.50		17.00			604.50
Otherwise			575.60		17.00			592.60
Maintenance Supervisor (Tradesman) -
In charge of staff			664.00		17.00			681.00
Otherwise			622.00		17.00			639.00
Engineer (Certificated) -
First year of service			684.30		17.00			701.30
Second year of service and thereafter			725.70		17.00			742.70
Nuclear Medicine Department
Nuclear Medicine Technologist -
First year of experience			576.30		17.00			593.30
Second year of experience			591.20		17.00			608.20
Third year of experience			618.30		17.00			635.30
Fourth year of experience			645.40		17.00			662.40
Fifth year of experience			673.70		17.00			690.70
Sixth year of experience			702.10		17.00			719.10
Seventh year of experience			731.50		17.00			748.50
Eighth year of experience and thereafter			764.90		15.00			779.90
Senior Nuclear Medicine Technologist			822.00		15.00			837.00
Chief Nuclear Medicine Technologist -
Grade I			939.20		15.00			954.20
Grade II			995.60		15.00			$1,010.60
Other Medical/Technical Staff Group
Anaesthetic and Operating Theatre Technician -
Without Diploma			538.70		17.00			555.70
Provided that an Anaesthetic and Operating Theatre
Technician who is the possessor of a Diploma issued
by the Australian Society of Anaesthetic and Operating
Theatre Technicians shall be paid			561.80		17.00			578.80
Senior Anaesthetic and Operating Theatre
Technician			574.10		17.00			591.10
Electro-Cardiograph Recorder/Technician -
First year of experience			538.70		17.00			555.70
Third year of experience and thereafter			547.10		17.00			564.10
Senior Electro-Cardiograph Recorder/Technician			559.30		17.00			576.30
Heart/Lung Assistant			546.90		17.00			563.90
Heart/Lung Technician			571.20		17.00			588.20
Neurophysiological Technician -
First year of experience			561.80		17.00			578.80
Second year of experience & thereafter			574.10		17.00			591.10
Senior Neurophysiological Technician -
Grade I			586.70		17.00			603.70
Grade II			625.70		17.00			642.70
Grade III			676.60		17.00			693.60
Surgical Bootmaker -
First year of experience			566.20		17.00			583.20
Second year of experience & thereafter			573.70		17.00			590.70
Orthotist -
First year of service			566.30		17.00			583.30
Second year of service			576.60		17.00			593.60
Third year of service			585.70		17.00			602.70
Fourth year of service and thereafter			593.90		17.00			610.90
Chief Orthotist -
Sole, or in charge of one other			622.90		17.00			639.90
Chief Orthotist -
In charge of two or more orthotists
First year of service		622.90			17.00			639.90
Second year of service & thereafter		640.90			17.00			657.90
Wardsperson -
First year of service		503.60			17.00			520.60
Second year of service and thereafter		506.70			17.00			523.70
Surgical Dresser -
First year of service		508.50			17.00			525.50
Second year of service		512.10			17.00			529.10
Third year of service and thereafter		517.10			17.00			534.10
Recreation Activities Officer -
First year of experience		519.80			17.00			536.80
Second year of experience		531.30			17.00			548.30
Third year of experience & thereafter		539.00			17.00			556.00
Diversional Therapist with Associate Diploma
First year of experience		515.00			17.00			532.00
Second year of experience		541.30			17.00			558.30
Third year of experience		565.20			17.00			582.20
Fourth year of experience		587.20			17.00			604.20
Fifth year of experience and thereafter		610.20			17.00			627.20
Years of experience as a Diversional Therapist with Associate Diploma employed under the Private Hospital
Employees' (State) Award or any award replacing that award will be recognised for appointment and
incremental progression.
Technical Assistant -
First year of service		519.80				17.00			536.80
Second year of service		531.30				17.00			548.30
Third year of service and thereafter		539.00				17.00			556.00
Pharmacy Department
Pharmacy Assistant (Graduate/Unregistered) -		542.10				17.00			559.10
Pharmacists (Registered) -
First year of experience		591.20				17.00			608.20
Second year of experience		609.40				17.00			626.40
Third year of experience		640.30				17.00			657.30
Fourth year of experience		677.00				17.00			694.00
Fifth year of experience		716.40				17.00			733.40
Sixth year of experience		755.30				15.00			770.30
Seventh year of experience		784.70				15.00			799.70
Eighth year of experience and thereafter		806.80				15.00			821.80
Chief Pharmacist (Practicing Pharmacist) -
Sole pharmacist in charge or in charge
of 3 or less registered or unregistered assistants
First year of service		859.90				15.00			874.90
Second year of service		885.30				15.00			900.30
Third year of service		907.10				15.00			922.10
In charge of 4 or more registered or unregistered assistants
First year of service			929.00			15.00			944.00
Second year of service			951.70			15.00			966.70
Third year of service			980.40			15.00			995.40
Pharmacists who are in possession of a Fellowship of the Society of Hospital Pharmacists shall be paid in
addition to the rates prescribed an allowance per week of the amount set out in Item 15 of Table 2 - Other
Rates and Allowances.
Radiographic Staff
Radiographer -
First year of experience			576.30			17.00			593.30
Second year of experience			591.20			17.00			608.20
Third year of experience			618.30			17.00			635.30
Fourth year of experience			645.40			17.00			662.40
Fifth year of experience			673.70			17.00			690.70
Sixth year of experience			702.10			17.00			719.10
Seventh year of experience			731.50			17.00			748.50
Eighth year of experience and thereafter			764.90			15.00			779.90
Senior Radiographer in a Section			822.00			15.00			837.00
Assistant Chief Radiographer			841.40			15.00			856.40
Chief Radiographer or sole Radiographer at Hospitals with an Adjusted Daily Average of
Under 100 beds			841.40			15.00			856.40
100 beds but less than 200			888.10			15.00			903.10
200 beds but less than 300			939.20			15.00			954.20
300 beds but less than 500			995.60			15.00			1,010.60
500 beds but less than 750			1,049.30			15.00			1,064.30
Chief Radiographer, Diagnostic Radiographer at a
hospital having an adjusted daily average of
occupied beds of 750 or more			1,076.40			15.00			1,091.40
Radiographers who are in possession of a Fellowship of the Australian Institute of Radiography shall be paid
an allowance of the amount per week set out in Item 16 of Table 2 - Other Rates and Allowances.
A radiographer employed in a hospital who is required to provide a weekly service to another hospital or
hospitals shall be paid in accordance with the following:
(a) Where a radiographer is classified and paid as a Chief Radiographer in his own hospital, he shall be
adjusted to the rate prescribed for a Chief Radiographer based on the combined A.D.A. of the hospitals within
the group service, provided that if on this basis the employee would not be entitled to an adjustment to a
higher salary rate, the employee shall be paid an allowance of the amount per week set out in Item 17 of Table
2 - Other Rates and Allowances.
(b) Where the employee is not classified and paid as a Chief Radiographer, the employee shall be paid the
weekly rate prescribed for a Senior Radiographer.
Support Services Staff
General Services Officer, Grade I -
(includes Maid, Laundry Hand, Seamstress)
Junior (under 18 years of age)			400.10			3.2%			412.90
Adult (18 years of age and over)			481.00			17.00			498.00
General Services Officer, Grade II -
(includes Kitchenhand, Ward Assistant,
Wash House Employee, Industrial Washing
Machine Operator, Porter/cleaner,
Cleaner, General Useful)			492.10			17.00			509.10
General Services Officer, Grade III -
(includes Handyperson, Storeperson,
Assistant Cook)			500.50			17.00			517.50
General Services Officer, Grade IV -
First year of service			511.90			17.00			528.90
Second year of service			519.80			17.00			536.80
Third year of service and thereafter			531.30			17.00			548.30
Cook -
Grade A			525.20			17.00			542.20
Grade B			513.40			17.00			530.40
Chef -
First year of service			543.10			17.00			560.10
Second year of service and thereafter			552.70			17.00			569.70
Catering Officer -
First year of service			585.10			17.00			602.10
Second year of service and thereafter			593.30			17.00			610.30
Housekeeper -
First year of service			511.10			17.00			528.10
Second year of service and thereafter			514.10			17.00			531.10
Laundry Foreman and Forewoman			520.70			17.00			537.70
If in possession of Laundry and Dry
Cleaning Certificate			527.60			17.00			544.60
Gardener (Otherwise)			502.90			17.00			519.90
Gardener (Qualified)			514.60			17.00			531.60
Head Gardener (Otherwise)			528.70			17.00			545.70
Head Gardener (Qualified)			555.60			17.00			572.60
Motor Vehicle Driver			511.20			17.00			528.20
Motor Vehicle Driver (Trucks and Ambulance)			517.50			17.00			534.50
Storekeeper			537.80			17.00			554.80
Technical Staff
Technical Officer -
Grade I -
First year of experience			550.90			17.00			567.90
Second year of experience			561.70			17.00			578.70
Third year of experience			569.70			17.00			586.70
Fourth year of experience			580.80			17.00			597.80
Fifth year of experience			591.20			17.00			608.20
Sixth year of experience			609.40			17.00			626.40
Seventh year of experience			625.90			17.00			642.90
Eighth year of experience & thereafter			640.30			17.00			657.30
Grade II -
First year of service			677.10			17.00			694.10
Second year of service			696.80			17.00			713.80
Third year of service			716.40			17.00			733.40
Fourth year of service			755.30			15.00			770.30
Senior Technical Officer -
First year of service			784.70			15.00			799.70
Second year of service			795.70			15.00			810.70
Third year of service and thereafter			806.80			15.00			821.80
Medical Technologist -
First year of experience			591.20			17.00			608.20
Second year of experience			609.40			17.00			626.40
Third year of experience			640.30			17.00			657.30
Fourth year of experience			677.10			17.00			694.10
Fifth year of experience			716.40			17.00			733.40
Sixth year of experience			755.30			15.00			770.30
Seventh year of experience			784.70			15.00			799.70
Eighth year of experience & thereafter			806.80			15.00			821.80
Senior Medical Technologist in a Section -
First year of experience			859.90			15.00			874.90
Second year of experience			885.30			15.00			900.30
Third year of experience and thereafter			907.10			15.00			922.10
Chief Medical Technologist -
If sole technologist in a hospital or in charge of
other technologists or trainees at hospitals
having an adjusted daily average of occupied
beds of less than 200
First year of experience			929.00			15.00			944.00
Second year of experience			951.70			15.00			966.70
Third year of experience & thereafter			980.40			15.00			995.40
Apprentices
Apprentice Cook -
First year			308.00			60% of Cook B			318.20
Second year			423.60			82½ of Cook B			437.60
Third year			474.90			92½ of Cook B			490.60
Apprentice Gardener
First year			257.30			50% of Gardener			265.80
						(qualified)
Second year			308.80			60% of Gardener			319.00
						(qualified)
Third year			411.70			80% of Gardener			425.30
						(qualified)
Fourth year			463.10			90% of Gardener			478.40
						(qualified)

 

Table 2 - Other Rates and Allowances

 

Item	Clause	Brief Description	Amount from
No.	No		1.10.2003
			$
1	6(iii)	Meal allowances (overtime) -	8.80 per meal
		- breakfast	11.40 per meal
		- lunch	16.70 per meal
		- dinner
2	7(iii)	Transport allowance - use of own vehicle (overtime hours)
		-
		- vehicles with engine capacity over 1600 cc	24.5cents per km
		- vehicles with engine capacity 1600 cc and under	20.5 cents per km
3	10(viii)	Apprentices -
		- certificate of exam pass	1.55 per week
		- each subsequent year	1.55 per week
4	12(i)	Driving allowances -
		- Where required to drive a vehicle	3.90 per week
		- required to drive more than 10 hours in any week -
		minimum payment	3.90
		- required to drive more than four hours in any day or shift
		- minimum payment	3.90 per shift
5	12(ii)	Post mortem assistance allowance -	6.20 per week
		- weekly allowance
		- where assisting in more than one post mortem per week	6.20 p/post
6	12(iii)	Dirty work, confined spaces allowance	0.33 per hour
7	12(iii)	Confined spaces allowance - inside boiler, flue, etc.	0.57 per hour
8	12(v)	Handling linen of nauseous nature allowance (except in	0.18 per hour
		sealed linen bags)
9	12(vii)	Leading hand allowance -
		- in charge of 2 to 5 employees	16.80 per week
		- in charge of 6 to 10 employees	23.60 per week
		- in charge of 11 to 15 employees	29.90 per week
		- in charge of 16 to 19 employees	36.50 per week
10	21(iii)	Uniform allowance	1.70 per week
11	21(iv)	Laundering of uniform allowance	1.00 per week
12	Table 1	Stenographic allowance	4.60 per week
13	Table 1	Sterilising Certificate allowance	5.40 per week
14	Table 1	Boiler Attendant allowance	12.20 per week
15	Table 1	Fellowship of the Society of Hospital Pharmacists	16.50 per week
		allowance
16	Table 1	Fellowship of Australian Institute of Radiography	18.10 per week
		allowance
17	Table 1	Chief Radiographer service to another hospital allowance	29.90 per week
18	Table 1	Fellowship of Australian Institute of Medical Technology	29.60 per week
		Allowance

 

 

 

E. A. R. BISHOP, Commissioner.

 

 

 

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