Page 2733 - Week 08 - Wednesday, 21 September 2022

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(Graph available at the Chamber Support Office).

(7) Annual leave accrued by staff is detailed in Annual Reports. Reporting prior to 2019-20 will include ACTHD as CHS became its own entity on 1 October 2018 and as a result definitive advice is not able to be reported. Annual leave liabilities have increased due to reduced utilisation of annual leave linked to the impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Pay increases for staff that occurred during the year consistent with enterprise agreements will increase this amount and increased headcount also means more people are accruing leave.

(8) Leave loading only applies to annual leave and is calculated as the greater of:

• 17.5 per cent of the employee’s ordinary rate of pay on 1 January 2022 multiplied by the number of hours of annual leave accrued during the preceding calendar year (excluding shift penalties). The maximum amount payable under this option is the equivalent of the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ male average weekly earnings for the May quarter of the year before the year in which the date of accrual occurs. In 2021 the maximum payment was $1,537.70; or

• Any shift penalties that the employee would have received had the employee not been on approved annual leave. This payment is not subject to a maximum.

(9) Annual Leave and Long Service Leave are accrued and recognised as an entitlement on the CHS balance sheet. Data for the last six years is unable to be provided due to the split of directorates into ACT Health Directorate and Canberra Health Services, the cost of these leave types for the last 3 years are:

(10) The below chart details headcount and FTE of Nursing staff within the Intensive

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