Social,
Community, Home Care and Disability Services Industry Award 2010
This Fair Work Commission consolidated modern award
incorporates all amendments up to and including 1
January 2025 (PR779153).
Clause(s) affected by the most recent variation(s):
3—Definitions and interpretation
4—Coverage
13—Classifications
17—Minimum weekly wages for home care employees
31—Annual leave
Schedule
E—Classification Definitions—Home Care Employees—Disability Care
Schedule
F—Classification Definitions—Home Care Employees—Aged Care
Schedule
G—Classification Translation Arrangements
Schedule
H—Supported Wage System
Schedule
I—National Training Wage
Schedule
J—Agreement to Take Annual Leave in Advance
Schedule
K—Agreement to Cash Out Annual Leave
Table of Contents
[Varied by PR995399,
PR508061,
PR532630,
PR544519,
PR546288,
PR557581, PR573679,
PR609429, PR610266,
PR701503,
PR718141,
PR713525, PR740268,
PR737905, PR747423, PR748510,
PR750543,
PR763307,
PR774828,
PR778073,
PR779153]
Part 1— Application and Operation.......................................................................................... 4
1. Title............................................................................................................................... 4
2. Commencement and transitional................................................................................. 4
3. Definitions and interpretation...................................................................................... 5
4. Coverage....................................................................................................................... 7
5. Access to the award and the National
Employment Standards................................... 9
6. The National Employment Standards and
this award.................................................. 9
7. Individual flexibility arrangements............................................................................... 9
Part 2— Workplace Delegates,
Consultation and Dispute Resolution................................... 11
7A. Workplace delegates’ rights....................................................................................... 11
8. Consultation about major workplace
change............................................................ 14
8A. Consultation about changes to rosters or
hours of work........................................... 16
9. Dispute resolution...................................................................................................... 16
Part 3— Types of Employment and
Termination of Employment.......................................... 17
10. Types of employment................................................................................................. 17
11. Termination of employment....................................................................................... 21
12. Redundancy................................................................................................................ 23
Part 4— Minimum Wages and Related
Matters..................................................................... 24
13. Classifications............................................................................................................. 24
14. Salary Packaging......................................................................................................... 25
15. Minimum weekly wages for social and
community services employees and crisis accommodation employees................................................................................................................................. 25
16. Minimum weekly wages for family day care
employees............................................ 32
17. Minimum weekly wages for home care
employees................................................... 34
18. Supported wage system............................................................................................. 37
19. National Training Wage............................................................................................... 37
20. Allowances.................................................................................................................. 37
21. District allowances...................................................................................................... 43
22. Accident pay............................................................................................................... 43
23. Superannuation.......................................................................................................... 43
24. Payment of wages....................................................................................................... 46
Part 5— Hours of Work and Related
Matters.......................................................................... 47
25. Ordinary hours of work and rostering........................................................................ 47
25A. Employee right to disconnect..................................................................................... 56
26. Saturday and Sunday work......................................................................................... 58
27. Breaks......................................................................................................................... 58
28. Overtime and penalty rates........................................................................................ 59
29. Shiftwork..................................................................................................................... 63
30. Higher duties.............................................................................................................. 63
30A. Requests for flexible working arrangements.............................................................. 64
Part 6— Leave and Public Holidays......................................................................................... 64
31. Annual leave............................................................................................................... 64
32. Personal/carer’s leave and compassionate
leave....................................................... 69
32A. Parental leave and related entitlements.................................................................... 69
33. Community service leave............................................................................................ 69
34. Public holidays............................................................................................................ 70
35. Ceremonial leave........................................................................................................ 70
36. Family and domestic violence leave........................................................................... 71
Schedule A —Transitional provisions...................................................................................... 72
Schedule B —Classification
Definitions—Social and Community Services Employees......... 82
Schedule C —Classification
Definitions—Crisis Accommodation Employees...................... 106
Schedule D —Classification
Definitions—Family Day Care Employees................................ 119
Schedule E —Classification
Definitions—Home Care Employees—Disability Care............. 122
Schedule F —Classification
Definitions—Home Care Employees—Aged Care.................... 128
Schedule G —Classification
Translation Arrangements........................................................ 129
Schedule H —Supported Wage System................................................................................. 133
Schedule I —National Training Wage.................................................................................... 137
Schedule J —Agreement to Take Annual
Leave in Advance................................................. 138
Schedule K —Agreement to Cash Out
Annual Leave............................................................ 140
Part 1—Application and Operation
1.
Title
This award is the Social, Community, Home Care and
Disability Services Industry Award 2010.
2.
Commencement and transitional
[Varied by PR542220]
2.1
This award commences on 1 January 2010.
2.2
The monetary obligations imposed on
employers by this award may be absorbed into overaward payments. Nothing in
this award requires an employer to maintain or increase any overaward payment.
2.3
This award contains transitional
arrangements which specify when particular parts of the award come into effect.
Some of the transitional arrangements are in clauses in the main part of the
award. There are also transitional arrangements in Schedule A. The arrangements in Schedule A deal with:
· minimum
wages and piecework rates
· casual
or part-time loadings
· Saturday,
Sunday, public holiday, evening or other penalties
· shift
allowances/penalties.
[2.4 varied by PR542220
ppc 04Dec13]
2.4
Neither the making of this award nor the
operation of any transitional arrangements is intended to result in a reduction
in the take-home pay of employees covered by the award. On application by or on
behalf of an employee who suffers a reduction in take-home pay as a result of
the making of this award or the operation of any transitional arrangements, the
Fair Work Commission may make any order it considers appropriate to remedy the
situation.
[2.5 varied by PR542220
ppc 04Dec13]
2.5
The Fair Work Commission may review the
transitional arrangements in this award and make a determination varying the
award.
[2.6 varied by PR542220
ppc 04Dec13]
2.6
The Fair Work Commission may review the
transitional arrangements:
(a)
on its own initiative; or
(b)
on application by an employer, employee, organisation or
outworker entity covered by the modern award; or
(c)
on application by an organisation that is entitled to
represent the industrial interests of one or more employers or employees that
are covered by the modern award; or
(d)
in relation to outworker arrangements, on application by an
organisation that is entitled to represent the industrial interests of one or
more outworkers to whom the arrangements relate.
3.
Definitions and interpretation
[Varied by PR995399,
PR997772,
PR503704,
PR531544,
PR546089,
PR733862,
PR774828, PR777334;
PR779588,
PR779153]
3.1
In this award, unless the contrary intention
appears:
Act means the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth)
[Definition of aged carer experience inserted by PR779153
ppc 01Jan25]
aged carer experience means previous employment
experience as a home care employee—aged care under this award or as a direct
care employee in residential aged care.
agreement-based transitional
instrument
