Local Government, Aged, Disability and Home Care (State) Award

 

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES

 

Application by Unions NSW, Industrial Organisation of Employees and State Peak Council.

 

(Case No. 270523 of 2019)

 

 

VARIATION

 

1.         Delete Part B Monetary Rates, of the award published 19 February 2016 (379 I.G. 254) and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

Part B

 

Table 1 - Monetary Rates

 

 

1.         Note: Employees classified and paid as Recreational Activities Officers as at 10 November, 1998 be reclassified in accordance with the new definitions of Care Service Employee. Employees reclassified at Grade 2 by virtue of the above exercise, shall be paid at Grade 3 from the effective date of this award, and continue to be so paid whilst employed in the provision of recreational activities by their current employer. These employees may be required to perform the duties of a Level 3 Care Services Employee where they have the skill and competence to do so.

 

2.         Note: Salary Band-Grade 5 - Employers and employees may negotiate a rate within the salary band as shown. For the purposes of this award, the rate so negotiated shall be deemed to be the employee's award rate of pay.  Salaries in excess of the salary band may also be negotiated between the parties.

 

 

 

Note 1:  Any employee paid on a classification/grade carrying a higher wage rate as at 10 November, 1998 shall have the difference between the higher rate and the new agreed grade/rate preserved whilst remaining to undertake the duties associated with the classification held prior to the date referred to above.

 

Note 2:  Clerks who are paid at a grade above that of Grade 5 as at 10 November, 1998 shall have the difference between that grade, inclusive of the 1998 State Wage Case Increase, and the new agreed grade preserved whilst employed in a clerical position with their current employer.

 

Table 2 - Allowances

 

 

Note: Allowances marked * increased by CPI

 

2.         Delete A.4, Minimum Wages of Schedule A - Training Wages, and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

A.4      Minimum Wages

 

A.4.1   Minimum wages for full-time traineeships

 

(a)       Wage Level A

 

Subject to clause A5.3 of this schedule, the minimum wages for a trainee undertaking a full-time AQF Certificate Level I-III traineeship whose training package and AQF certificate levels are allocated to Wage Level A by Schedule B are:

 

	Highest year of schooling completed
	Year 10	Year 11	Year 12
	Per week	Per week	Per week
	$	$	$
School leaver	342.90	378.00	453.80
Plus 1 year out of school	378.00	453.80	528.30
Plus 2 years out of school	453.80	528.30	614.00
Plus 3 years out of school	528.30	614.00	701.60
Plus 4 years out of school	614.00	701.60	701.60
Plus 5 or more years out of school	701.60	701.60	701.60

 

A.4.2   Minimum wages for part-time traineeships

 

(a)       Wage Level A

 

The minimum wages for a trainee undertaking a part-time AQF Certificate Level I-III traineeship whose training package and AQF certificate levels are allocated to Wage Level A by Appendix B are:

 

	Highest Year of Schooling completed
	Year 10	Year 11	Year 12
	Per hour	Per hour	Per hour
	$	$	$
School Leaver	11.28	12.43	14.92
Plus 1 year out of school	12.43	14.92	17.33
Plus 2 years	14.92	17.33	20.21
Plus 3 years	17.33	20.21	23.07
Plus 4 years	20.21	23.07	23.07
Plus 5 years or more	23.07	23.07	23.07

 

(b)       School-based traineeships

 

The minimum wages for a trainee undertaking a school-based AQF Certificate Level I-III traineeship whose training package and AQF certificate levels are allocated to Wage A by Schedule B are as follows when the trainee works ordinary hours:

 

	Year of Schooling
	Year 11	Year 12
	$	$
School based Traineeships Wage Level A	11.28	12.43

 

3.         Delete Schedule B - Allocation of Traineeships to Wage Levels, and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

Schedule B - Allocation of Traineeships to Wage Levels

 

The wage levels applying to training packages and their AQF certificate levels are:

 

Wage Level A
Training package	AQF certificate level
Business Services	I
	II
	III
	IV
Community Services	II
	III
	IV

 

4.         This variation shall take effect from the beginning of the first full pay period to commence on or after 28 September 2019.

 

 

 

P. M. KITE, Chief Commissioner

N. CONSTANT, Commissioner

D. SLOAN, Commissioner

 

 

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