PLASTERERS, SHOP HANDS AND CASTERS (STATE) CONSOLIDATED AWARD

 

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES

 

Application by Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (New South Wales Branch), industrial organisation of employees.

 

(No. IRC 3227 of 2003)

 

 

VARIATION

 

1.          Delete clause 3, Wages of the award published 15 February 2002 (331 I.G. 387), and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

3.  Wages

 

(i)         The following minimum rates of pay shall be paid to adult employees:

 

Classification	Total Rate eff.	SWC 2002	Total Rate eff.
	01/06/02	$	10/07/03
Shop Hand	507.30	18.00	525.30
Caster	421.90	18.00	439.90
Mechanical Cornice Attendant	413.40	18.00	431.40
& Operator
Cornice Machine Attendant	413.40	18.00	431.40
All Others	413.40	18.00	431.40

 

Tool Allowances	($)
Shop Hand	2.92
Caster	1.22

 

(ii)        Junior casters minimum rates of pay shall be the rates set out hereunder calculated to the nearest five cents, any fraction of five cents in the result not exceeding half of five cents to be disregarded:

 

Percentage of the sum of the total wage assigned to an adult caster

 

	Percentage per week
1st year	48
2nd year	68
3rd year	90

 

(iii)       Casual Employees:  A casual employee, that is an employee engaged for  less than forty hours per week, shall be paid one-fifth of the weekly rate plus 10 per centum per day or portion thereof.

 

(iv)       Leading Hands:

 

(a)        An employee appointed to be in charge of more than two and up to and including five employees shall be a leading hand and shall be paid $13.50 per week extra.

 

(b)        An employee appointed to be in charge of more than five and up to and including ten employees shall be a leading hand and shall be paid $17.05 per week extra.

 

(c)        An employee appointed to be in charge of more than ten employees shall be a leading hand and shall be paid $24.02 per week extra.

 

(v)        Where an employee is sent from a shop to a job to perform casters and/or fibrous fixers and gypsum plasterboard fixers' work the worker shall be paid the hourly rates and conditions applying to fixers in the Building and Construction Industry (State) Award whilst he or she is actually employed on this work and this hourly rate shall be paid in lieu of normal pay.

 

2.          Delete clause 4, State Wage Case Adjustments, of the award and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

4.  State Wage Case Adjustments

 

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

 

(i)         any equivalent over-award payments and/or

 

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

 

3.          This variation shall take effect from the beginning of the first pay period to commence on or after 10 July 2003.

 

 

 

M. J. WALTON  J, Vice-President.

 

 

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Printed by the authority of the Industrial Registrar.