What trades does the Portable Long Service Leave Scheme cover?
For the construction industry in Victoria, the Portable Long Service Leave Scheme is administered by CoINVEST.
Employers, workers, working subcontractors, working directors, and apprentices within the construction industry are all required to be registered with CoINVEST and where a worker performs more than five days of covered work in any month, the employer is legally required to record that service with CoINVEST.
What trades are covered by the scheme?
- Building
- Electrical
- Metal
- Foreman/supervisor/manager
There are also some partially covered trades (eg. Cleaners, joiners, landscape gardeners and more).
Building trades
- Bricklayer
- Builders labourer
- Carpenter
- Carpet or vinyl layer (excluding work in the domestic sector)
- Concrete tester (project based only)
- Concreter
- Construction worker (civil engineering, roads, bridges & rail lines)
- Crane driver
- Drainer
- Irrigation installer (excludes work in the domestic & nursery sector)
- Labourer
- Landscape gardener (excluding domestic sector & garden maintenance)
- Painter
- Parquetry floor layer (excluding sanding, floor polishing etc unless directly after the laying of floor)
- Pipelayer
- Plasterer
- Plant operator
- Plumber or gasfitter
- Pool and spa construction worker (excluding cleaning & maintenance)
- Precast panel concrete worker (off-site)
- Precast panel concrete worker (on-site)
- Roof tiler or slater
- Shopfitter (installation in retail shops)
- Shopfitter (factory worker)
- Sprinkler fitter
- Stonemason (on site)
- Traffic controller
- Tile layer
- Water/sewer maintenance worker (civil)
- Yardmen (construction scaffolding yards)
Electrical trades
- Electrical worker including building works, power supply, air conditioning etc
- Electrical worker or contractor (including work on fibre cabling) by an REC
- Electrical fitter, cable joiner or mechanic
- Electrical worker (security, telecommunications & cabling) not by an REC
- Communications worker (fibre optics, telecommunications & cabling) not by an REC
- Electrical worker (e.g. machinery)
- Instrument worker (installation or maintenance in construction industry)
- Linesman
- Tree clearance worker (around power lines only)
- Electrical trades general or other
Metal trades
- Boilermaker (onsite construction, excluding manufacturing)
- Boilermaker (onsite maintenance, excluding manufacturing)
- Crane operator (tower, mobile, forklift & platform
- Fitter and turner and mechanical fitter (covered for work on construction sites or on equipment from construction sites)
- Machinery maintenance worker (on & off site but only contract work is covered)
- Metal trades maintenance workers (refineries, power stations, offshore platforms, gas plants, smelters etc)
- Non destructive testing worker (onsite only, does not include domestic worker)
- Pipelayer (civil construction)
- Plant operator
- Refrigeration and air conditioning mechanic (onsite building installation)
- Refrigeration and air conditioning mechanic (onsite building maintenance)
- Refrigeration and air conditioning industrial or commercial equipment installation or maintenance
- Rigger, dogman or scaffolder (metal trades construction)
- Trades assistant
- Welder (onsite construction)
- Responsible officer (on-shore & offshore oil or gas facilities)
- Platform services officer (offshore oil or gas facilities)
- Metal trades other (not machinery maintenance)
For a list of partially covered trades and details on foreman/supervisor or managers, please visit the CoINVEST website.
