AG2012/10662 Summer Hill Aged Care Services-Nursing Home P/L NSWNA & HSU East Branch Enterprise Agreement 2012 [1] This decision concerns numerous applications by Leading Age Services NSW pursuant to section 185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (hereinafter «the Act») for approval by Fair Work Australia (FWA) for 38 individual company agreements, negotiated between various elderly care providers in New South Wales and the New South Wales Nurses and Midwives Association and the Health Services Union. Ost (HLT) («trade unions»). A list of agreements is attached to this Decision as Annex A. The global test (BOOT) is completed. It found that all other legal requirements relating to the processing and approval of company agreements had been complied with. Please provide your name, business number and the name of the agreement. A team member must contact you within 2 business days. s.185 – Application for approval of a sole proprietorship contract [1] Fair Work Australia has been notified by Leading Age Services Australia of an error in the rates of pay of point 3A (second year of experience) for itinerant therapists in 53 sole proprietorship contracts, which I recently approved in September and October 2012 and which are listed in Appendix A. All parties agree that the error must be corrected on behalf of Fair Work Australia.

If your application has been submitted in advance, you can check the status of your agreement by sending an email to the Commission team responsible for the agreement at agreementsprogressenquiry@fwc.gov.au. The list of applications includes the item number, the name of the applicant, the title of the agreement, the sector, the date of the application, whether the application needs to approve or amend an agreement and the status of the application. Request for amendments to many company agreements in the geriatric care industry. This page contains a list of applications for approval or amendment of a company agreement that are currently being reviewed by the Fair Work Board. For applications that have not yet been concluded, the agreement or modification is accessible via the following links. These edited documents are usually published within 3 working days of their submission. No employer who operates a hospital or facility that is a facility that primarily cares for the sick, elderly, mentally ill or malformations that, once an application has been approved or rejected, is no longer included in the list below. To find an agreement that has been approved or amended, please consult the document search for agreements.

[2] For the sake of simplicity and common sense, all the issues were merged by mutual agreement at a hearing of the applications on 5 September 2012. Indeed, the agreements are all identical in relevant respect, with the same terms reflecting an industry-wide model agreement negotiated between and applied to the parties and other similar agreements recently approved by the FWA. I understand that other applications of a similar nature will follow….. Persons who wish to be heard on any of the issues listed below must contact the Board within 7 business days of the date of the application and the matter may be registered for an attendance hearing. Contact the Commission by e-mail at member.assist@fwc.gov.au. . AG2012/10635 – Clendon Care, NSWNA & HSU East Enterprise Agreement 2012 AG2012/10712 – Cook Care Group NSW NSWNA & HSU East Branch Enterprise. .

. . If, within thirty days of filing an indictment with the Commission or within thirty days of the expiration of a reference period under paragraph c (except 5 AG2012/10632 – Meredith House Aged Care NSWNA & HSU East Branch Enterprise. . . . [4] Both unions participated in the negotiations for all the agreements and each submitted Form F18, in which they support the demands and attempt to fall under the agreements. In accordance with Article 201(2) of the Act, trade unions are covered by each of the agreements listed in Annex A. Trade unions readily acknowledge that the agreements correspond to the BOOT. In this context, I note that the agreements provide for higher rates of pay than the transitional rates of the premiums concerned, namely:.

Printed by the Commonwealth Government Printer Authority . [7] After hearing the submissions of the parties and reviewing the conditions of the documents relating to the prior authorization procedure and the agreements themselves, I am satisfied that all the requirements of the Act, in particular sections 180, 186, 187 and 188, to the extent that they are relevant to the applications, are met. Accordingly, I agree with the agreements listed in Appendix A. According to Article 54 of the Act, agreements are valid from 12 September 2012 and have a nominal expiry date of 30 June 2015. However, I note that all workers covered by the agreements have received or will receive the first wage increase from 1 July 2012. July 1, 2013 $772.92 July 1, 2013 $749.99 July 1, 2014 $796.11 I July 2014 $772.49 [3] This order comes into force on November 28, 2012. . AG2012/10591 – Ark Health Care (Landsdowne) Pty Ltd NSWNA & HSU East Branch Enterprise Agreement 2012. . . .  General Services for the Care of the Elderly (NapSA)[AN 120011].

. If the attendance hearing request is listed, you will find the details on the corresponding list of hearings and conferences. . — (1) Any approval in principle of an application for a work permit granted to a foreign worker whose occupation indicated in the application is «domestic worker» [3] At the hearing, Ms E. Patton and Mr G. Sheargold of Leading Age Services appeared on behalf of the applicants, Ms R. Kennedy and Mr.B. Morwitzer on behalf of the Nurses and Midwives Association and Ms F. Johnston and Ms E.

Williams on behalf of HLT East. .