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Penalty rates

Remote work under the Social, Community, Home Care & Disability Services Award

From 1 July 2022 the Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Award includes provisions dealing with remote work.

An employee who is directed or authorised by their employer to be on call to perform work may be engaged in remote work. Employees may also perform remote work when they are not on call if needed.

Remote work is work performed by the employee that is:

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Broken shifts in the Social, Community, Home Care & Disability Services Award

Broken shifts only apply to:

  • social and community services employees when undertaking disability services work
  • home care employees.

There are no provisions in the award for other employees to work broken shifts.

What’s a broken shift?

It’s a shift that includes 1 or 2 unpaid breaks from work.

A meal break doesn’t break a shift.

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Penalty rates in the Meat Award

Employees other than cleaners

Penalty rates in the Meat Award depend on the:

  • type of establishment the employee works in
  • day the work is done on
  • hours the work is done over.

Penalty rates are paid on the minimum hourly rate for all ordinary hours worked. Work done outside the spread of hours is overtime.

Casuals other than employees working in a load out area get the penalty rate instead of the casual loading.

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Sessional employees in the Labour Market Assistance Award

Sessional employees get paid the casual pay rate for an Employment services officer grade 1 – pay point 3. In addition, sessional employees are paid for preparation, non-teaching or training tasks in one of two ways:

  • a 33.3% loading paid as part of the casual hourly rate, or
  • payment of one hour’s pay for every three hours of teaching time. This is capped at five additional hours per week.

How are penalties calculated?

Penalty rates are calculated on the minimum hourly rate. This is the rate without the casual loading.

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