Employment types under the Program
As a participant undertaking eligible work in eligible locations, you may accrue Return of Service Obligation (RoSO) at different rates, depending on your employment type.
Employment type refers to how RoSO is defined and calculated under the Program, rather than how your role has been defined by your employer.
For most participants, RoSO can be calculated on a full-time, part-time or per-day basis.
If you opted into the Program from the 1-year Bonded Medical Places (BMP) scheme (2016–2019), you can only complete your RoSO in a full-time capacity in blocks of at least 10 weeks.
The Health Insurance (Bonded Medical Program) Rule 2020 section 4, defines 1 week of RoSO as:
- full-time – if a bonded participant is employed in eligible work for at least 35 hours or more in that week
- part-time – if a bonded participant is employed in eligible work for at least 20 hours, but less than 35 hours, in that week
- per-day – if a bonded participant is employed in eligible work on 2 or more days with a total of at least 20 hours. There is no ‘in that week’ requirement – so the days worked do not need to have been worked in a single week.
If you work variable hours, you must record your RoSO as a per-day plan. BRoSS will accurately calculate the RoSO accrued for weeks where you meet the part-time or full-time definition.
BRoSS calculates one week as 7 days, Sunday through to Saturday.
The benefit of full-time work
If you work in a full-time capacity, in an eligible MM4–7 location for a period of 104 weeks (2 years), you may access scaling credits.