Aged Care Wages – Historical Leave Liability
Tender ID: 545951
Tender Details
Tender Description
The Aged Care Wages – Historical Leave Liability Grant Opportunity will provide $130.9 million 2023-24 to fund aged care providers for 50% of the cost associated with paying higher leave entitlements for workers that have had their wages increased as a result of the FWC’s decision. Funding can only be claimed to ‘top up’ relevant leave entitlements that are directly attributable to the FWC’s decision of a 15 per cent wage increase.
Aged care providers include those that provide one of the following aged care programs:
- Residential Aged Care,
- Home Care Packages Program,
- Commonwealth Home Support Programme
- Transition Care Programme
- Short Term Restorative Care Program
- Multi-Purpose Services and
- National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flexible Aged Care Program.
Eligible leave liabilities are long service leave (recognized at the first full pay period on or after 30 June 2023), recreation leave (also known as annual leave) and personal leave (also known as sick leave).
Eligible aged care workers are those that have had their wages increased as a result of the Government’s $11.3 billion funding to support increased wages for aged care workers as part of the FWC’s decision for a 15 per cent wage increase for eligible Aged Care workers.
Eligibility:
To be eligible you must be one of the following entity types:
- Indigenous Corporation (registered under the Corporations (Aboriginal and /or Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006)
- Company
- Corporate Commonwealth Entity
- Non-Corporate Commonwealth Statutory Authority
- Corporate State or Territory Entity
- Non-corporate State or Territory Entity
- Non-corporate State or Territory Statutory Authority
- Local Government
- Cooperative
- Incorporated Association
- Statutory Entity
- Partnership
- Unincorporated Association.
If you are applying as a Trustee on behalf of a Trust, the Trustee must have an eligible entity type as listed above.
Applications can only be accepted from:
Aged care service providers that have increased staff wages as a result of the Government’s $11.3 billion investment to support increased wages for aged care workers, as part of the FWC’s decision, and are providers of:
- Residential aged care; and / or
- Home Care Package Program; and / or
- Commonwealth Home Support Programme; and / or
- Transition Care Programme; and / or
- Short-Term Restorative Programme; and / or
- Multi-Purpose Services Program (that are not state Government funded / operated); and / or
- National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flexible Aged Care Program.
Total Amount Available (AUD): $130,900,000.00
Location
New South Wales : Central West : Far North Coast : Far West : Hunter : Illawarra : Mid North Coast : Murray : New England : Orana : Riverina : Southern Highlands : Sydney
Queensland : Cairns & Far North Queensland : Gladstone : Mackay Whitsunday Region : Mount Isa & North West Region : Rockhampton : South East Queensland : South West & Darling Downs : The Central West : Townsville : Wide Bay Burnett
Victoria : Barwon South West : Gippsland : Grampians : Hume : Loddon Mallee : Melbourne
South Australia : Adelaide : Eyre & Western : Far North : Fleurieu & Kangaroo Island : Limestone Coast : Murray & Mallee : York & Mid North
Northern Territory : Barkly : Big Rivers : Central Australia : East Arnhem : Greater Darwin : Top End
Australian Capital Territory
Tasmania