CEMETERY AND CREMATORIA (STATE) AWARD

 

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES

 

Application by The Funeral and Allied Industries Union of New South Wales Branch, industrial organisation of employees.

 

(No. IRC 4310 of 2002)

 

 

VARIATION

 

1.       Delete subclauses (i), (iv), (v), (vi) and (vii) of clause 6, Wages, of the award published 23 February 2001 (322 I.G. 514), and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

(i)       The following rates of pay shall be the minimum rates to be paid to weekly employees in the classifications shown hereunder:

 

Classification	Rate Per Week
	$
Employee engaged in grave digging	485.00
Transformer Hand	481.10
General Hand	457.50

 

The rates of pay in this award include the adjustments payable under the State Wage Case 2002.  These adjustments may be offset against:

 

(a)      any equivalent overaward payments; and/or

 

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

 

(iv)     In addition to the wage rates set out in this award, a weekly employee only shall be paid an industry allowance of $51.85 per week. This allowance will be paid on all public holidays as outlined in this award, annual leave exclusive of the loading and any sick leave entitlement payable under this award, excepting where a pay- out provision exists. This allowance will not be included for the purpose of computing overtime or the calculation of workers' compensation.

 

(v)      An industry disability allowance of $9.10 per week shall be paid to all employees to compensate for the disability of being available to the employer at short notice on each Saturday throughout the year. This allowance shall be paid for all purposes of the award. An employee required to do any work in connection with an exhumation shall receive an allowance for each body exhumed in addition to his/her ordinary wage as set out in the following scale:

 

(vi)     Where a body has been buried for 14 days or less, $53.25.  Where a body has been buried for more than 14 days but less than seven years and had been arterially embalmed and sealed in a metal, polythene or other approved plastic container, $63.85. Where a body has been buried for more than 14 days but less than seven years and has not been arterially embalmed and inserted in a metal, polythene or other approved plastic container, $106.50. Where a body has been buried in excess of seven years, $53.25

 

(vii)    An additional $9.00 per employee shall be paid when such employee is engaged in hand digging a grave.

 

2.       Delete clause 8, Leading Hand, and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

8.  Leading Hand

 

Where an employer in his/her sole discretion appoints an employee as a leading hand, such an employee shall be paid an allowance of $26.20 per week above his/her appropriate classification as provided for in subclause (i) of clause 6, Wages.

 

3.       Delete clause 11, Tea Money, and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

11.  Tea Money

 

(i)      Employees required to work overtime for more than two hours after their ordinary ceasing time on any day, Monday to Friday inclusive, and who have not been so advised the day previously, shall be paid a meal allowance of $9.20.

 

(ii)     Employees who are advised that they are required to work overtime and who are not so required to work shall be paid $5.75 meal allowance.

 

4.       This variation shall take effect from the beginning of the first pay period to commence on or after 10 August 2002.

 

 

 

P. J. SAMS  D.P.

 

 

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