Working outside NSW

Long service is a state responsibility. Queensland, Victoria and the ACT each have their own portable long service scheme for the contract cleaning industry.

Workers must be registered with the long service scheme in whichever State or Territory they work in. For example, if workers are employed by a NSW based company and they normally work in NSW, but the company sends them to Queensland on a job, the workers need to be registered with the Queensland scheme. Their service credits for that job will be held in the Queensland scheme.

A national reciprocal agreement exists between these schemes. This means that work recorded in another State is recognised and is included when calculating eligibility for a long service benefit. However, the rules of the various schemes are not the same. Workers with service recorded in the other States or Territory should confirm specific requirements with each scheme.

Workers should keep the NSW scheme informed if they are accumulating service in another jurisdiction. This will protect their records in the NSW scheme from cancellation (or suspension) due to no recording of service for four consecutive years. Similar requirements exist in schemes of the other jurisdictions.

As Commonwealth places fall under the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth Government, work conducted on Commonwealth places cannot be credited under the NSW Contract Cleaning Industry Long Service Leave (CCI LSL) scheme, administered by the Long Service Corporation (LSC).

We are working with the Commonwealth Government to resolve this.

Find more information on Commonwealth places.

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