STOREMEN AND PACKERS - GROCERY AND VARIETY WAREHOUSE (STATE)
SUPERANNUATION AWARD
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES
Review of Award pursuant to Section 19 of the Industrial Relations Act 1996.
(No. IRC 2886 of 2000)
Before Commissioner
Patterson
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18 June 2001
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REVIEWED AWARD
Arrangement
Clause No. Subject Matter
1. Title
2. Definitions
3. Contributions
4. Area, Incidence
and Duration
1. Title
This Award shall be known as the Storemen and Packers
Grocery and Variety Warehouse (State) Superannuation Award.
2. Definitions
(i) In this award
"the fund" can mean either the participating employers superannuation
fund or the Labor Union Co-operative Retirement Fund (LUCRF).
(ii) "Eligible
Employee" - means a full-time employee who has completed one month’s
continuous service or a casual employee who has accumulated 39 hours continuous
service with the employer and is a member of, or eligible to be a member of,
the National Union of Workers New South Wales Branch.
(iii) "Ordinary
Time Earnings" - means the eligible employees ordinary weekly or casual
hourly rate of pay that includes only shift penalties, responsibility/leading
hand rates, freezer allowances and productivity bonuses where applicable.
3. Contributions
(i) Each
participating employer shall pay to the Trustee of the fund on behalf of each
eligible employee who is a member of the Fund employed by that employer,
contributions of three per cent of the employee’s ordinary weekly rate or
casual hourly rate as at 1 July each year.
(ii) When the
employee becomes an eligible employee by having completed the required
qualifying period of employment, the employer shall pay contributions for that
qualifying period.
(iii) Any employee
who at the commencement of this award has already completed the appropriate
eligibility period will be classified as an eligible employee.
(iv) Provided that
where an eligible employee has not joined the fund and refuses or fails to
complete the election to so join, the employer shall not be bound to make
contributions for that eligible employer.
(v) There a
participating employer’s fund is available, each eligible employee shall have
the right of choice between either that participating employer’s fund or the
Labor Union Co-operative Retirement Fund.
(vi) An eligible
employee’s election pursuant to this award shall be in writing in such terms as
the participating employer’s fund or the Labor Union Co-operative Retirement
Fund (LUCRF) may reasonably require.
(vii) An eligible
employee, having made an election pursuant to this award, shall not be entitled
to change the election.
(viii) A pro rata
deduction shall be made from the weekly contribution made for each hour an
employee is absent from work without pay.
(ix) Such
contribution will continue to be credited to the appropriate fund whilst the
Union, its officials, and its members accept and honour in full the terms of
the agreed variations to the work practices as documented in Matter No. 1601 of
1986 and Matter No. 462 of 1987.
(x) Notation: Employees covered by this award are also
covered by the provisions of the Superannuation Guarantee Charge Act,
1992 (Cth.) and the Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act, 1992
(Cth.) and complimentary legislation.
Nothing in this notation, however, shall be used to reduce any benefits
enjoyed by employees as at the date of making this award.
4. Area, Incidence
And Duration
(a) This award
rescinds and replaces the Storemen and Packers - Grocery and Variety Warehouse
(State) Superannuation Award published 22 February 1991 (261 I.G. 426) and
shall apply to all eligible employees being storemen and packers employed in
Grocery and Variety Warehouses operated by Coles Myer Ltd., Franklins Limited,
IGA Distribution Pty. Ltd., Woolworths Limited and Woolstar Pty. Ltd.
(a) The changes
made to the award pursuant to the Award Review pursuant to Section 19(6) of the
Industrial Relations Act 1996 and Principle 26 of the Principles for
Review of Awards made by the Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales
on 18 December 1998 (308 I.G. 307) and take effect on 18 June 2001.
(b) This award
remains in force until varied or rescinded, the period for which it was made
having already expired.
R. J. PATTERSON,
Commissioner.
Printed by the authority of the Industrial Registrar.