ALL WORK BANS ARE SUSPENDED FROM 9AM WEDNESDAY APRIL 11.

You will NOT have to backdate or catch up on any work that was not completed because of the bans during thr campaign. 

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Winning higher wages 

• A 5% increase to wages and allowances for each year of the agreement.
• Additional increments / classifications at top of band, and for forensic, high complexity, respite. 

Improving penalty rates and allowances

• Increase the weekend/public holiday sleepover penalty rate to 50% and apply the same penalty loading to the Standby and Recall Allowance.
• Improved sleepover disturbance payments and better access to active nights.
• Improve eligibility for higher duties payments. 

Better leave conditions

• Inclusion of a domestic violence paid leave clause.
• Better long service leave.
• Access to paid team meetings.

Looking after casuals

• Incremental pay progressions for hours worked.
• Easier access to ongoing employment.
• All casuals to receive training on managing complex health needs and positive behavioral support, with improved induction training.

Training and professional development

• Funded training package to deliver minimum mandatory qualification at Certificate IV in Disability and practice in a human rights framework.
• In addition to time paid for mandatory training, all employees to receive 5 days paid study leave per year for personal professional and career development purposes.
• Training to assist career movement across services, streams and into supervisory work for upward career path.
• Training for complex care and specialised support e.g. managing behaviors of concern, medical services, ageing, dual disability, autism spectrum disorder, with further detailed list of key topics. Including OH&S training.

Workplace violence and safety

• Require code of practice for prevention and management of occupational violence in disability services is mandated and enforced as policy.
• Employer must publish quarterly workplace violence report containing number of reported incidents, and incidents that have resulted in injury to staff / residents or property damage.
• Provide all employees exposed to workplace violence with immediate post incident diffusing support, followed by formal debriefing by properly trained professionals.
• Minimum standards and entitlements for HSR’s to undertake OH&S activities. 

Workplace change

• Require any review of workload to be conducted jointly with the employee/s and HACSU.
• No new systems to be implemented without consultation and a workload impact statement in an agreed form must be provided. 
• Where workload burden identified, management must take all reasonable steps to address and mitigate the workload risk.
• Review roster review process and establish a ‘no disadvantage test’ with total pay, allowances, hours, and other work/life balance issues and a ‘minimum notice period’.
• Amend Introduction of Change clause to require employer to consult in circumstances where there is significant effects on individuals.

Discipline process

• Simplify Schedule C in order to better protect worker’s rights and expedite the process.

Rostering

• Amend rostering process to ensure at least one monthly team meeting, one hour PDS per employee, adequate time for completion of administration and domestic duties, and, 3 hours administration time per fortnight, per resident for key workers.
• Employer required to demonstrate any proposed reduction in a Group Home’s rostered hours arises because of a change in resident/s support needs. In the absence of evidence supporting a reduction in hours, the Group Home’s rostered hours will not be reduced.

Other improvements

• Operation Managers to be provided with remote computer access.
• Better definitions of what is “complex work”.
• The parties to agree on the minimum information to be provided on pay slips.
• New agreement to comprehensively include and maintain all existing EBA employment terms, conditions and professional development and training provisions.
• Comprehensive agreement on Colanda closure to be attached as a Schedule to the EBA.