CEMENT MIXERS AND CONCRETE
WORKERS, CENTRAL BATCH PLANTS (STATE) AWARD
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES
Application by the Employers’ Federation of New South Wales,
industrial organisation of employers.
(No. IRC 611 of 2000)
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Before Commissioner O’Neill
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24 February and 17
April 2000
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VARIATION
1. Delete
clause 7, Enterprise Arrangements, of the award published 13 January 1995 (283
I.G. 33) as varied, and insert in lieu thereof the following:
7. Enterprise Arrangements
The parties to this award may negotiate enterprise
arrangements consistent with the principles set out in the Industrial Relations
Act 1996 and the relevant State Wage Case principles.
2. Renumber
subclauses (v) to (vii) of clause 15, Contract of Employment, to read as
subclause (vi) to (viii) and insert the following new subclause (v):
(v) "Part-time
Employees" - Employees may be employed to work regular days and regular
hours less than 38 hours per week, provided that -
(a) The set weekly
hours for such an employee shall be determined upon engagement, which shall
include normal starting and finishing times and thereafter, not changed other
than by agreement.
(b) Notwithstanding
(a) above, a minimum of 3 days X 5 consecutive hours shall be worked each week
by such employees; provided that an employer may, instead of the
aforementioned, elect to observe any existing minimum engagement provisions for
part-time employees prescribed in enterprise arrangements.
(c) Any work
beyond the contracted hours, but not exceeding 2 hours per day, shall be at
single time, provided that the overtime provisions of this award shall apply.
(d) The spread of
ordinary hours allowable for part -time employees shall be as set out in
subclause 9 (i) and their hourly rate equal to the appropriate weekly rate for
full-time employees, and divided by 38.
(e) Where there
are more than 3 full-time employees engaged under this award in any
establishment the ratio of full-time employees to non-full-time employees
(including casual and permanent part-time employees) shall remain 4:1.
(f) No full-time
employee shall be forced to reduce to part-time employment because of the
insertion of this provision.
(g) All other
provisions of this award, where applicable, shall apply to part-time employees
on a pro-rata basis.
3. This
variation shall take effect on and from 24 February 2000.
B. W. O’NEILL,
Commissioner.
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Printed by the authority of the Industrial Registrar.