Bacon Factory Employees (Cumberland) Consolidated Award

 

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES

 

Application by The Australasian Meat Industry Employees' Union, New South Wales Branch, Industrial Organisation of Employees.

 

(No. IRC 2046 of 2007)

 

 

VARIATION

 

1.          Delete subclause (v) of clause 3, Meal Breaks of the award published 25 March 2005 (349 I.G. 669), and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

(v)        An employee who has not been notified on the immediately preceeding work day that the employee will be required to work overtime on any day for more than one and one-half hours, shall be provided with a meal by the employer or in lieu thereof shall be paid the sum at Item 1 of Table 2 - Other Rates and Allowances of Part B Monetary Rates of this Award for the first meal and each subsequent meal.  Any employee who has provided themselves with a meal after being notified and who is not then required to work after the normal ceasing time shall be paid the sum at Item 1 of Table 2 - Other Rates and Allowances of Part B Monetary Rates of this award.

 

2.          Delete subclause (v) of clause 4, Wages and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

(v)        Leading Hands - Employees employed as leading hands shall, in addition to the appropriate rate of pay prescribed by this award, be paid the following allowance at Item 2 of Table 2 - Other Rates and Allowances of Part B Monetary Rates of this Award.  Provided that this subclause shall not apply to an employee classified and paid as first curer, first employee cutting up and first employee washing, smoking and drying.

 

3.          Delete clause 5, Arbitrated Safety Net Adjustment and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

5.  Arbitrated Safety Net Adjustment

 

State Wage Case Adjustment

 

The rates of pay in this award include the adjustments payable under the State Wage Case 2005, 2006, and 2007.  These adjustments may be offset against:

 

(i)         any equivalent overaward payments, and/or

 

(ii)        award wage increases since 29 May 1991 other than safety net, State Wage Case, and minimum rates adjustments.

 

4.          Delete subclause (i) of clause 7, Working in Cold Temperatures and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

(i)         Each employee shall be paid the allowance at Item 3 of Table 2 - Other Rates and Allowances of Part B Monetary Rates of the award per hour or part thereof, in addition to this ordinary rate of pay, for time worked in a room wherein the temperature had been artificially reduced below 1.667 degrees Celsius: Provided that if, when commencing work in the morning, the temperature is below 1.667 degrees Celsius no such additional sum shall be payable in respect thereof unless the temperature remains at less than 1.667 degrees Celsius for at least one hour after commencing work: Provided further time worked which, on any day, is less than thirty minutes in the aggregate shall be disregarded.

 

5.          Delete paragraph (b) of subclause (iv) of clause 20, Supply of Special Clothing, Knives and Accessories, and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

(b)        Where an employer does not provide tools of trade to employees whose work necessarily requires the use of knives, oil-stones, steels and pouches, boners shall be paid an allowance at Item 4(i) per week or (ii) per day, any other employees (iii) per week or (iv) per day of Table 2, Other Rates and Allowances of Part B Monetary Rates of this Award.

 

6.          Delete Part B, Monetary Rates, and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

PART B

 

MONETARY RATES

 

Table 1 - Wage Rates

 

		Column A	Column B	Column C
		SWC 2005	SWC 2006	SWC 2007
		eff. 1 Dec. 07	eff. 1 Dec. 07	eff. 1 Dec. 07
		$	$	$
1	First curer	510.10	530.10	550.10
2	Second curer	501.10	521.10	541.10
3	Backer down or chopper down	501.10	521.10	541.10
4	Boner and trimmer(including tunnel boning)	501.10	521.10	541.10
5	Pickle pumper (arterial or stab)	495.10	515.10	535.10
6	First man - cutting up	495.10	515.10	535.10
7	Packer - ham canning	484.40	504.40	524.40
8	First man - washing, smoking and drying	499.00	519.00	539.00
9	Bacon boner	496.90	516.90	536.90
10	Cutter up	492.40	512.40	532.40
11	Tally and despatch hand	489.60	509.60	529.60
12	Cooker and lardman	489.40	509.60	529.60
13	Closing machine operator	486.50	506.50	526.50
14	Solderer	486.50	506.50	526.50
15	Bacon curer’s labourer - doing salting	484.40	504.40	524.40
16	Smokehouse labourer	484.40	504.40	524.40
17	Labourer	484.40	504.40	524.40

 

Table 2 - Other Rates and Allowances

 

Item No.	Clause No	Explanation	Column A	Column B	Column C
			SWC 2005	SWC 2006	SWC 2007
			eff. 1 Dec. 07	eff. 1 Dec. 07	eff. 1 Dec. 07
1	3(v)	Meal Allowance	9.41	9.74	10.09
2	4(v)	Leading Hand allowance
		In charge of more than
		two but not more than ten
		employees	10.01	10.41	10.83
		In charge of more than ten
		employees	17.35	18.04	18.76
3	7(i)	Working in cold
		temperatures per hour or
		part thereof	0.36	0.37	0.37

 

4	2(iv)(b)	Supply of special clothing,
		knives, and accessories
		(i) per week	5.15	5.36	5.57
		(ii) per day	1.03	1.07	1.11
		(iii) per week	3.09	3.21	3.34
		(iv) per day	0.62	0.64	0.67

 

7.          This variation shall take effect from the first full pay period to commence on or after 1 December 2007.

 

 

 

I. TABBAA, Commissioner

 

 

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