Level 2 Adverse Working Conditions Allowance. (a) This allowance is payable only in association with the performance of duties that involve a staff member cleaning up or removing human faeces (including soiled nappies), blood, and/or vomit; or other substances that would meet the definition of being offensive, filthy or obnoxious.
(b) The allowance is payable for the total time worked over a day in the performance of the above duties and is payable in minimum hourly lots.
(c) The allowance is only payable to staff up to and including job grade 4A and does not attract any penalty payments.
Level 2 Adverse Working Conditions Allowance a) All employees classified in the Operational Band 1, of this Agreement (except for supervisors), who are employed in garbage, sanitary and sullage collection work or engaged at garbage tips, in street sweeping and in cleaning offensive materials from gutters or storm water drains, shall in addition to their weekly rate of pay, be paid a level 2 adverse working conditions allowance at the rate set out in Table 2 of Part B of this Agreement. This allowance shall be paid for all purposes of the Agreement but shall not attract any penalty.
b) The level 2 adverse working conditions allowance will also be paid to:
1. Outdoor workers – as and when required to manually handle faeces. For the purposes of this sub-clause, “manually handle” means removal of faeces by hand or shovel but does not include removal of faeces by use of a high- pressure cleaner. Payment is on an hourly basis with a maximum of one (1) hour claimed per day.
2. Employees who work in Council’s Animal Holding Facility and are required by their position descriptions to manually handle animal faeces. However, from the effective date of the Agreement, employees working in Council’s Animal Holding Facility and who were previously receiving the Level 1 adverse working conditions allowance and/or the sewer chokes allowance for manually handling animal faeces, will no longer receive those allowances, if as a result of this Agreement they receive the level 2 adverse working conditions allowance.
c) The level 2 adverse working conditions allowance is to compensate for the special disabilities associated with the hours worked and the offensive, filthy and obnoxious nature of duties performed by employees engaged in this work.
Level 2 Adverse Working Conditions Allowance a) All employees classified in the Operational Band 1, of this Agreement (except for supervisors), who are employed in: • garbage, sanitary and sullage collection work or engaged at garbage tips; • Council’s workshop undertaking maintenance of garbage trucks; • amenities cleaning; street sweeping and in cleaning offensive materials from gutters or storm water drains, shall in addition to their weekly rate of pay, be paid a level 2 adverse working conditions allowance at the rate set out in Table 2 of this Agreement. This allowance shall be paid for all purposes of the Agreement but shall not attract any penalty.
b) The level 2 adverse working conditions allowance is to compensate for the special disabilities associated with the hours worked and the offensive, filthy and obnoxious nature of duties performed by employees engaged in this work.
