Portable Long Service Leave Act 2024
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Schedule 2—Community services 1—Preliminary Services qualify under this Schedule if they— (a) are specified in clause 2; and (b) involve the performance of work covered under clause 3. 2—Services The following services are specified: (a) Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community services; (b) accommodation support services; (c) advocacy services; (d) alcohol and other drug services; (e) child safety and support services; (f) community development services; (g) community education services; (h) community legal services; (i) counselling services; (j) disability emergency response services; (k) disability support services; (l) employment services; (m) family and domestic violence services; (n) family day care services; (o) financial counselling services; (p) foster care and out‑of‑home care services; (q) home and community care services; (r) homelessness support services; (s) lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex services; (t) mental health services; (u) migrant and multicultural support services; (v) offenders transitioning services; (w) respite services; (x) seniors community support services; (y) sexual assault and sexual violence services; (z) social housing services; (za) violence prevention services; (zb) women's services; (zc) youth justice services; (zd) youth support services. 3—Coverage (1) Work is covered under this clause if the work has a rate of pay prescribed by a qualifying award, even if a person performing a service is being paid under an enterprise agreement or an individual contract at a different rate of pay. (2) For this clause, a qualifying award is— (a) either— (i) the Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Industry Award 2010; or (ii) the Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement Award 2016, subject to a regulation that provides that an award specified in this paragraph no longer applies; or (b) an award made in substitution of an award specified in paragraph (a), subject to a regulation (if any) under that paragraph; or (c) an award prescribed by the regulations.