genU Pay Rates 2026: Support Worker & SCHADS Pay

genU (formerly Karingal and St Laurence, now trading under one brand) is a Victorian and Tasmanian not-for-profit running disability support, employment services, aged care and community programs. Its workforce includes disability support workers, employment and business-enterprise staff, and program and administrative teams.

genU's disability support roles are covered by the Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Industry Award 2010 (SCHADS), where pay is a matrix of stream, level and pay point. genU has separate enterprise agreements for its business enterprises and Tasmanian disability services (listed below where our corpus holds them); either must leave employees better off overall than these award figures.

The federal awards relevant to genU roles:

• Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Industry Award 2010 (MA000100)

Workforce snapshot. In its 2024-25 report to the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, Karingal St Laurence Limited declared 3,609 employees — 20.1% casual and 66% women. Source: WGEA 2025 Public Data File, data.gov.au (CC-BY 3.0 AU).

The SCHADS award pays by stream (social and community services, home care, disability, crisis accommodation), then classification level, then pay point — so there is no single "disability support worker rate". Our SCHADS pay rates page carries the full current pay-point matrix, verified against the Fair Work Commission's pay database, plus the sleepover, broken-shift and minimum-engagement rules that decide most disability pay disputes.

Enterprise agreements set rates above the award, with their own classification structures and allowances. Current genU agreements in our corpus (4 in total):

• genU Disability Services Tasmania Enterprise Agreement 2025 — approved March 2026, nominal expiry 18 March 2029.
• genU Business Enterprises, Enterprise Agreement 2023 - 2026 — approved December 2025, nominal expiry 30 June 2026.
• genU Employment Services Enterprise Agreement 2023 - 2026 — approved July 2024, nominal expiry 30 June 2026.
• genU Training Enterprise Agreement 2021 - 2024 — approved March 2023, nominal expiry 30 June 2024.

We don't reproduce agreement dollar figures here — the agreement covering your site, state and stream is the document to read. Find your agreement, then your classification, then your pay point, and compare it with your payslip. The award tables on this page are the floor every one of these agreements must beat.

The patterns worth checking on a genU payslip:

• Wrong SCHADS level or pay point for qualifications and years of service.
• Sleepover and active-night shifts paid as if they were the same thing.
• Broken shifts without the allowance, and travel between clients unpaid.
• Minimum engagements ignored on short support shifts.

Match your payslip to your classification in the agreement (or the award tables above), and price any gap with our back-pay calculator. Raise it in writing with payroll or your manager first — most underpayments are fixed at that step. Unresolved, the Fair Work Ombudsman (13 13 94) recovers underpayments at no cost, up to six years back, and your union can run the claim for you. Not sure which instrument covers you? Ask our AI advisor with your role and location.