HORTICULTURAL INDUSTRY (STATE) CONSOLIDATED AWARD

 

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES

FULL BENCH

 

Application by The Australian Workers' Union, New South Wales, industrial organisation of employees.

 

(No. IRC 5142 of 2001)

 

 

VARIATION

 

1.          Delete clause 6, Safety Net Commitments of the award published 25 February 2000 (313 I.G. 783), as varied, and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

6.  Safety Net Commitments

 

(i)         The rates of pay in this award include the adjustments payable under the State Wage Case 2001. These adjustments may be offset against:

 

(a)        any equivalent overaward payments, and/or

 

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

 

2.          Delete Section 1 - Adult Employees and Section 2 - Leading Hands of Table 1 - Rates of Pay, and Table 2 - Allowances of Part B, Monetary Rates and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

Section 1 - Adult Employees

 

Farm	Wage Rate	Ordinary Time	Casual	Casual	Casual
Employee	per week	Base	Ordinary Time	Ordinary	Ordinary Time
		Hourly Rate	Incl.	Time	Sunday
			1/12 loading	Saturday
	$	$	$	$	$
Level 6	513.40	13.51	16.60	20.75	24.90
Level 5	507.20	13.35	16.41	20.51	24.62
Level 4	484.00	12.74	15.66	19.58	24.83
Level 3	476.00	12.53	15.40	19.25	23.10
Level 2	455.20	11.98	14.73	18.41	22.10
Level 1	434.30	11.43	14.05	17.56	21.08

 

The above rates of pay shall take effect from the first full pay period to commence on or after 1 November 2001.

 

 

Farm	Wage Rate	Ordinary Time	Casual	Casual	Casual
Employee	per week	Base	Ordinary Time	Ordinary	Ordinary Time
		Hourly Rate	Incl.	Time	Sunday
			1/12 loading	Saturday
	$	$	$	$	$
Level 6	513.40	13.51	16.83	21.04	25.25
Level 5	507.20	13.35	16.63	20.79	24.95
Level 4	484.00	12.74	15.87	19.84	23.81
Level 3	476.00	12.53	15.61	19.51	23.42
Level 2	455.20	11.98	14.93	18.66	22.40
Level 1	434.30	11.43	14.24	17.80	21.36

 

The above rates of pay shall take effect from the first full pay period to commence on or after 1 March 2002.

 

Section 2 - Leading Hands

 

Leading Hand Allowance:
More than 2 and not more than 10 employees	$21.35 per week	22.00 per week
10 or more employees	$32.15 per week	33.10 per week

 

Table 2 - Allowances

 

Item No	Clause No	Brief Description	Existing Allowance	Total Amount
			$	$
1	2(c)	Meal Allowance (per meal)	7.90	8.80
2	22(b)	Sleeping away from home (per
		night)	39.00	40.25
3	23(b)	Wet Money (per day)	3.20	3.30
4	25	First-aid Allowance (per day)	2.00	2.05

 

 

NOTE: These allowances are contemporary for expense related allowances as at 30 March 2001 and for work related allowances are inclusive of adjustment in accordance with the May 2001 State Wage Case decision of the Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales.

 

 

3.          This variation shall take effect from the first full pay period to commence on or after 1 November 2001.

 

 

 

F. L. WRIGHT  J, President.

M. J. WALTON  J, Vice-President.

J. N. REDMAN, Commissioner.

 

 

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