Transport Industry - Excavated Materials, Contract Determination

 

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES

 

Application by Transport Workers' Union of New South Wales, Industrial Organisation of Employees.

 

(Case No. 35042 of 2020)

 

 

VARIATION

 

1.         Delete Part B, Rates of Remuneration, and Part C, Rise and Fall Formula, of the award published 24 October 1997 (301 I.G. 1082) and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

PART B

 

RATES OF REMUNERATION

 

 

PART C

 

Rise and Fall Formula

 

1.         The rates prescribed in Part B may be adjusted each year upon application to the Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales.

 

2.         Application for adjustment shall be made by reference to the weighted movement in the following benchmarks for each cost component, calculated as at the end of the full quarter immediately preceding the variation, with each adjustment application based upon the rates and amounts in the immediately preceding variation.

 

Component Current	Benchmark	Current Index	Weighting
Wages	Road Transport and Distribution Award 2010, Grade Three Transport Worker	814.2	34.86
Capital	ABS Consumer Price Index (CPI), Motor Vehicles, Australia	95	18.27
Insurances	ABS CPI, Insurance, Australia	131.3	5.83
Registration	ABS CPI, Transportation Group, Other Services in respect of motor vehicles	133.1	3.45
Repairs & Maintenance	ABS CPI, Transportation Group, Maintenance and Repair of Motor and Repair of motor vehicles	113.6	17.55
Tyres	ABS CPI, Transportation Group, Spare Parts and Accessories for motor vehicles	112	4.71
Fuel AIP NSW State	Average for the Retail Price of diesel (excluding GST), calculated by determining the average of the weekly figures	136.32	11.93
	between the end of the quarter relating to the last variation and the end of the quarter prior to any new variation.
Administration	ABS CPI, All Groups, Sydney	116.5	3.41
Total			100

 

3.         If the cost components, excepting fuel, change such that it causes an increase in the total remuneration of 2 per cent of more from the date of the last variation, an interim adjustment may be made. An application to vary rates of remuneration for changes in the price of fuel may be made at any time, provided that the date upon which any rate adjustment is sought to become operative is at least one calendar month after the last occasion upon which a fuel rate adjustment became operative.

 

4.         Each cost component will be re-weighted after each adjustment.

 

5.         Parties to this Determination will confer with a view to reaching agreement on any application for adjustment on any application for adjustment. In the absence of agreement the rates and amounts shall be determined by the IRC.

 

6.         Notwithstanding anything contained in this Part, a variation shall not be retrospective in operation but shall operate from a date not earlier than the date upon which it is made.

 

2.         This variation shall take effect on and from 10 February 2020.

 

 

 

D. SLOAN, Commissioner

 

 

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