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Commonwealth Cleaning Services Guidelines 2012
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Department of Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business
This item is authorised by the following title:
Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Regulations 1997
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F2013L00435
08 March 2013
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27 June 2014
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The Legislative Framework
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Australian Government Cleaning Services tender and contract requirements
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The cleaning services contractor must provide a duty schedule to employees at each site which specifies the particular tasks that are to be performed on each individual floor.
Duty schedules must be reviewed on a regular basis to ensure that they are meeting the requirements of the contract and the employees.
Each employee must be informed in writing about which floor, floors, or areas of a floor they are allocated to clean.
In preparing documentation for employees, including duty schedules, the cleaning services contractor must have regard to the language skills of each employee.
The cleaning services contractor must ensure that there are sufficient employees at a given site to carry out the work required by the Australian Government Cleaning Services Contract.
In determining what is ‘reasonable’ the contractor must consider the following:
The cleaning services contractor must ensure that duty schedules can be undertaken in the normal rostered shift worked by each respective employee.
The cleaning services contractor must understand and respect their employees’ rights in relation to freedom of association and the right to representation at work.
This includes allowing employees to make a free and informed choice about whether to join a union and be represented at work, including:
Employees must be made aware of their employment rights, including the right to collective bargaining.
The cleaning services contractor must make employees aware:
