HealthShare NSW Patient Transport Officers (State)
Award
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES
FULL ENCH
Application by NSW Ministry of Health.
(Case No. 113658 of 2016)
Before Chief Commissioner Kite
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13 September 2019
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Commissioner Stanton
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Commissioner Murphy
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AWARD
PART A
1. Arrangement
Clause No. Subject
Matter
1. Arrangement
2. Definitions
3. Conditions
of Employment
4. Classifications
5. Meals
6. Rates of
Pay
7. Anti-Discrimination
8. No Extra
Claims
9. Area,
Incidence and Duration
PART B
Table 1 - Rates of Pay
Table 2 - Other Rates and Allowances
2. Definitions
2.1 Employer means the Secretary of the
Ministry of Health exercising employer functions on behalf of the Government of
NSW (and includes a delegate of the Secretary).
2.2 Patient Transport Officer means an
employee of HealthShare NSW who is appointed to an approved Patient Transport
Officer position.
2.3 Trainee Patient Transport Officer means
an employee of HealthShare NSW who is undertaking the necessary and relevant
training and work experience as determined by the employer to become a Patient
Transport Officer.
2.4 Union means the Health Services Union
New South Wales.
3. Conditions of
Employment
3.1 The following awards as varied or replaced
from time to time shall apply except in so far as any term of any of those
awards are inconsistent with this award:
Health
Employees Conditions of Employment (State) Award; except for:
Clause 3
(xii) and (xiii) - the meal break and tea break provisions do not apply; and
Clause
14(i) and (vi) - do not
apply, and
Health
Industry Status of Employment (State) Award.
In the event
of any inconsistency between the above awards, the provisions in this award
shall apply.
4. Classifications
4.1 A Trainee
Patient Transport Officer is an employee who is undertaking the necessary and
relevant training and work experience as determined by HealthShare NSW to
become a Patient Transport Officer and who is appointed to an approved Trainee
Patient Transport Officer position.
This category of employee will be involved in routine
and non-emergency patient transport utilising basic life support skills. Among
other things, this category of employee will receive training and certification
in work health and safety, first aid, driver training, patient handling, oxygen
administration, equal employment opportunity, anti-discrimination and
anti-harassment.
4.2 A Patient
Transport Officer is an employee who has successfully completed the necessary
and relevant training and work experience as determined by the employer to
become a Patient Transport Officer and who is appointed to an approved Patient
Transport Officer position. Provided that such an employee shall be required to
undertake and successfully complete further instruction/in-service courses
necessary for Patient Transport Officers as determined by the employer.
This category of employee will be involved in routine
and non-emergency patient transport utilising basic life support skills. This
category of employee will not be utilised to crew ambulances engaged in
emergency/casualty response.
Provided that such an officer shall be required to
undertake and successfully complete further instruction/in service courses and
certification examinations as required by HealthShare NSW.
5. Meals
5.1 Employees
working shifts of less than 12 hours duration shall have one paid 30 minute
crib break to be taken between the fourth and seventh hour unless otherwise
agreed between the parties.
5.2 Employees
working 12 hour shifts will be entitled to two paid 30 minute crib breaks to be
taken between the fourth and seventh hour and the eighth and eleventh hour
unless otherwise agreed between the parties.
5.3 Employees who,
due to operational requirements, are unable to take their paid crib break
within the prescribed times, or whose crib break is not completed, shall
receive an additional payment of one hour at ordinary time.
5.4 An employee who
is directed to take their crib break away from her or his starting location for
that shift, will be paid a crib away allowance as
follows:
(a) Where an
employee is entitled to one crib break per shift the payment for any crib
directed to be taken away from the employee’s starting location for that shift
will be paid at the rate prescribed in Item 1 of Table 2 - Part B - Other Rates
and Allowances for each occasion that the employee is so directed.
(b) Where an
employee is entitled to two crib breaks per shift the payment for any crib
directed to be taken away from the employee’s starting location for that shift
will be the paid at the rate prescribed in Item 2 of Table 2 - Part B Other
Rates and Allowances for each occasion that the employee is so directed.
6. Rates of Pay
6.1 This Award
provides for a 2.5% increase in existing rate of pay, compounding annually, to
employees within its area, incidence, and duration for the financial years
2017/18 2018/19, and 2019/20.
6.2 Employees’
weekly ordinary full-time earnings shall not be less than as set out in Table 1
of Part B, Monetary Rates.
7. Anti-Discrimination
7.1 It is the
intention of the parties bound by this Award to seek to achieve the object of
section 3(f) if the Industrial Relations
Act 1996 to prevent and eliminate discrimination in the workplace. This
includes discrimination on the grounds of race, sex, marital status,
disability, homosexuality, transgender identity and age.
7.2 It follows that
in fulfilling their obligations under the dispute resolution procedure
prescribed by this Award the parties have obligations to take all reasonable
steps to ensure that the operation of the provisions of this award are not
directly or indirectly discriminatory effects. It will be consistent with the
fulfilment of these obligations for the parties to make an application to vary
any provisions of the award which, by its terms or operation, has a direct or
indirect discriminatory effect.
7.3 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.
7.4 Nothing in this
clause is to be taken to affect:
(i) Any
conduct or act which is specifically exempt from anti-discrimination
legislation.
(ii) Offering or
providing junior rates to a person under 21 years of
age.
(iii) Any act or
practice of a body established to propagate religion which is exempted under
Section 56(d) of the Anti-Discrimination
Act 1977.
(iv) A
party to this award from pursuing matters of unlawful discrimination in a State
or federal jurisdiction.
7.5 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’.
8. No Extra Claims
8.1 Other Than as
Provided for in the Industrial Relations
Act 1996 and the Industrial Relations (Public Sector Conditions of
Employment) Regulation 2014, There Shall be No Further Claims/Demands Or
Proceedings Instituted Before the Industrial Relations Commission of New South
Wales for Extra Or Reduced Wages, Salaries, Rates of Pay, Allowances Or
Conditions of Employment With Respect to the Employees Covered By the Award
that Take Effect Prior to 30 June 2020 By a Party to This Award.
9. Area, Incidence and
Duration
9.1 This Award shall
apply to employees of the New South Wales Health Service employed within
HealthShare in the classifications in clause 4, Classifications, under Section
115(1) of the Health Services Act
1997, or any successors, assignees or transmittees.
9.2 The Award shall
take effect from 1 July 2017 and shall remain in force until 30 June 2020 and
rescinds and replaces the HealthShare NSW Patient Transport Officers' Salaries
(State) Award published 22 June 2018 (383 I.G. 182).
PART B
Table 1 - Rates of Pay
PART B
Table 1 - Rates of Pay
Classification
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Rate
effective first
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Rate
effective first
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Rate
effective first
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Rate
effective first
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full
pay period on
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full
pay period on
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full
pay period on
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full
pay period on
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or
after 1/07/2016
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or
after1/07/2017
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or
after 1/07/2018
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or
after 1/07/2019
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$
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$
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$
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$
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Trainee Patient
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969.00
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993.23
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1018.06
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1043.51
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Transport Officer
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Patient Transport
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1012.20
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1037.51
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1063.44
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1090.03
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Officer
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Table 2 - Other Rates and Allowances
Item
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Clause
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Description
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Rate
effective first
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Rate
effective
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Rate
effective
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No.
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No.
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full
pay period on
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first
full pay period
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first
full pay period
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or
after1/7/17
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on
or after 1/7/18
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on
or after 1/7/19
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$
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$
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$
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1
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5.4(a)
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Crib
Away Allowance
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22
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22.55
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23.11
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(single
crib)
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2
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5.4(b)
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Crib
Away Allowance
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11
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11.28
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11.56
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(two
cribs)
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P.
M. KITE, Chief Commissioner
J.D. STANTON, Commissioner
J.
V. MURPHY, Commissioner
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Printed by the authority of the Industrial Registrar.