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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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