I have a casual support worker employee who has worked over 38hrs in a week. According to the SCHADS award, it appears as though I need to pay overtime, but I just have a couple of queries to clear up first.
The following is from the schads award.
Its states: All time worked by part-time or casual employees in excess of 38 hours per week or 76 hours per fortnight will be paid for at the rate of time and a half for the first 2 hours and double time thereafter
So question 1: I’m getting confused on the 38hrs per week or 76hours a fortnight. We pay our employees fortnightly. So if our employee worked over 38hrs in a week, but in the fortnight worked under 76hrs, does this change anything?
I just don’t want to be paying overtime if I’m not actually required to.
If you are paying fortnightly my understanding is its not overtime if it was spread over 10 shifts and less than 8 hours per shift. So if they did six shifts one week and 4 shifts the next less than 8 hours its not overtime.
At this point I’m thinking I’m definitely going to need to pay overtime , but happy for you to prove otherwise. They worked the following hours in the week.
I’m being hit left and right with different things that I don’t normally face on a week to week basis, so my scope of knowledge is currently being challenged.
Today one of our client’s nominees has informed us that they would like to use their respite funding. They want to use it in their own home for 1 night shift a week. Not a sleepover shift , but a standard night shift where the staff member is awake and vigilant the entire night.
I wasn’t sure if this could be done originally, but according to the plan, apparently it can be used in this respect.
So now I’m trying to determine how to bill for it. I’ve looked at the pricing arrangement and I feel like it could/should possibly be the following line item which falls under sta/respite. Its the hourly night rate for respite (which is equivalent to standard ADL line items), but to ensure I’m billing the respite portion of the plan I’m going to need to bill the right line item.
Does anyone know if it would be correct to bill based on this line item
That’s a tricky one. I don’t think I have ever done respite in someone’s own home before but it would make sense why someone would prefer that.
I would take the code you picked and just say to the support coordinator hey, this is what the participant has asked for. I am billing to this line code but wanted to confirm with you first to check if there is a line code you would prefer I use. Then see what the coordinator comes back with.
, but happy for you to prove otherwise. They worked the following hours in the week.
. I was hoping to hear from you again.