Stay-at-home advice for residents in restricted LGAs

In response to the measures coming into effect this weekend, we are adjusting our timetables to continue running essential services for customers to be able to travel safely. We will do this by prioritising our people who live outside the 3 affected LGAs for frontline work requirements.

Transport has an important role to play in suppressing COVID-19 and together we can help protect our customers, the community and our families. Thank you for your cooperation.

Under the Public Health Order, people who live or stay in the Canterbury- Bankstown, Fairfield or Liverpool LGAs (see the full list of affected suburbs here) cannot leave their residence for work if that work takes them outside their LGA.

There is exemption for ‘authorised workers’, which includes road and rail transport workers, but to reduce mobility as much as possible, Transport is prioritising employees who live outside the 3 restricted LGAs for work outside those areas wherever possible.

• If you are a frontline people leader, prioritise your employees from outside the restricted LGAs for all work outside those areas.
• If you are a frontline employee from one of the restricted LGAs, talk with your leader about how this applies for you. If you are not required for critical operations, discuss alternative duties and the options for working at home. If these approaches are not available, you will be supported with special leave.
• If you live in the Fairfield LGA and must leave the area to undertake critical operations work, you need to have surveillance testing for COVID-19 once every 3 days and complete the online testing declaration form before each shift as outlined on stayinformed.