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Who is impacted?Д®mployees (including casual employees) of residential aged care who work at more than one residential aged care site, where one of those sites in in either metropolitan Melbourne or Mitchell Shire. Your вЂelected primary workplaceвЂ™ is the single site at which you elect to work all your shifts, including those previously worked at other sites. Impacted employees will be invited to nominate a single aged facility (one of the sites you currently work at) to be your primary workplace. Similarly, if the Victorian Government declared an extension of COVID-19 lockdown into other areas of Victoria, these principles would be extended to those areas. What is cohorting?Д¬ohorting is a system where each aged care employee works at only one site for a period, currently eight weeks. The discussions occurred because the Victorian Government foreshadowed an intention to make a directive that cohorting of aged care employees must occur within metropolitan Melbourne and Mitchell Shire.

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The ANMF, along with other key stakeholders and government, have held discussions over recent days about how to manage the proposed вЂcohortingвЂ™ of aged care employees as part of the strategy to reduce the spread of the COVID-19. If you cannot attend work due to COVID-19 symptoms, awaiting test results or you are in isolation, and are not entitled to take sick leave, call 1800 675 398 for access to the Victorian GovernmentвЂ™s one-off payment of up to $1500.ДЇor more information about how government is supporting VictoriaвЂ™s aged care residents and nurses, carers and other aged care staff read Federal Health Minister Greg HuntвЂ™s media release. With the virus being infectious before the onset of symptoms, and in some reported cases without the person ever having symptoms, steps must be taken to protect those we care for.

Members working in residential aged care will be familiar with the increasing spread of COVID-19 in the community, and a number of recent cases of community-acquired COVID-19 being spread into more than one aged care facility by staff members who works across more than one worksite.

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