Social, community, disability or home care services
FWO’s disability support services Inquiry to build culture of compliance
Changes to minimum payments for part-time employees – Social and Community Services Award
Award coverage for family day care employees
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Award coverage for outdoor leaders
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Award coverage for attendant carers employed in private homes
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24 hour care in the Social, Community, Home Care & Disability Services Award
A 24 hour care shift is a shift where a home care employee is required to be available for duty in a client’s home for a 24 hour period.
Employees will work and sleep at the client’s home during the shift.
There are different rules applying to 24 hour care shifts from 1 July 2022.
After 1 July 2022
From 1 July 2022, employers are only able to roster employees to work a 24 hour care shift by agreement.
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Award coverage for employees soliciting donations for charities
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Sleepovers in the Social, Community, Home Care & Disability Services Award
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Equal Remuneration Order in the Social, Community, Home Care & Disability Services Award
Equal Remuneration Order
Minimum weekly rates for some employees in the social, community, home care and disability services industry gradually increased from 1 December 2012 to 1 December 2020. This is because of an Equal Remuneration Order (ERO) made by the Fair Work Commission.
The minimum weekly rates have increased for employees in the:
- social and community services classifications
- crisis accommodation classifications.
They’re also increased for employees who do this work on an on-hire basis.
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Pay point progression in the Social, Community, Home Care & Disability Services Award
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