BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY (STATE) AWARD

 

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES

 

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

 

(No. IRC 5596 of 2001)

 

 

VARIATION

 

1.          Delete paragraph (a) of subclause 24.3 of clause 24, Allowances, of the award published 31 August 2001 (327 I.G. 279), as varied and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

24.3      Tool Allowance

 

(a)        A tool allowance shall be paid for all purposes of the Award to tradesperson and apprentices in their respective trades in accordance with the following table:

 

Trade	Tool Allowance $
Artificial stoneworker, carpenter and/or joiner, carpenter-diver, carver, bridge and wharf carpenter, letter cutter, marble and slate worker, stonemason	20.90
Caster, fixer, floorlayer specialist, plasterer	17.20
Bricklayer, Tilelayer, Hard Floor Coverer	14.80
Rooftiler, slater, ridger or roof fixer	10.90
Signwriter, painter	5.20

 

2.          Delete the amount of $54.00 appearing in paragraph (a) of subclause 24.4 of the said clause 24 and replace it with the following amount:  $59.30.

 

3.          Delete the amount of $2.70 appearing paragraph (c) of subclause 24.4 of clause 24 and replace it with the following amount:  $3.00

 

4.          Delete the amount of $8.30 in appearing subclause 24.6 of clause 24 and replace it with the following amount: $9.30.

 

5.          Delete the amount of $1146.00 appearing subparagraph (a) of paragraph 24.7.2 of subclause 24.7 of clause 24 and replace it with the following amount: $1,215.00.

 

6.          Renumber the existing subclause 37.6 of clause 37, Living Away From Home - Distant Work, to read as paragraph 37.6 (a) and insert the following new paragraphs:

 

37.6     

(b)        An apprentice or builder's labourer who works as required during the ordinary hours of work on the working day before and the working day after a weekend and who notifies the employer or his/her representative no later than Tuesday of each week of his/her intention to return to his/her usual place of residence at the weekend and who returns to his/her usual place of residence for the weekend shall be paid an allowance as set out in Item 5 of Table 37.12 for each occasion.

 

37.6     

(c)        Paragraph (b) of this subclause shall not apply to an apprentice or builder's labourer who is receiving the payment prescribed in subclause (37.3) of this clause in lieu of board and lodging being provided by the employer or who is receiving a camping allowance as prescribed in subclause (37.7(b)) of this clause)

 

7.          Delete the words "Item 5" and "Item 6" appearing in paragraph (b) of subclause 37.7, the said clause 37 and replaces with the words "Item 6" and "Item 7" respectively.

 

8.          Delete subclause 37.12, of clause 37 and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

37.12    Table of Allowances

 

Item No.	Clause No.	Description	Amount $
1	37.3(b)	Living away from home weekly rate	308.50
2	37.3	Living away from home daily rate	44.10 p/d
3	37.4(a)(iii)	Meals while travelling	9.30 p/meal
4	37.4	Return journey	16.10
5	37.6	Returning to usual place of residence for a weekend while on distant work apprentices and Builders' Labourers	27.10
6	37.7(a)	Weekly camping rate	127.80 p/w
7	37.7(b)	Daily camping rate	18.40 p/d

 

9.          Delete subclause 38.12 of clause 38, Fares and Travel Patterns Allowance and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

38.12    Table of Fares and Travel Patterns Allowances

 

Item	Clause No.	Description	Amount
No.			$
1	38.1.1(a)	Fares within the counties	13.30p/d
2	38.1.1(b)	Fares within a 50 kilometre radius	13.30 p/d
3	38.4.1(b)	Use of own vehicle outside radial ares	0.39 p/km
4	38.8.2	Use of own vehicle transferring between sites	0.73 p/km
5	38.11.1	Apprentices fares
		1st year	12.45 p/d
		2nd year	12.90 p/d
		3rd year	13.00 p/d
		4th year	13.20 p/d

 

 

 

10.        This variation shall take effect from the beginning of the first pay period to commence on or after 11 September 2001.

 

 

 

M. J. WALTON  J, Vice-President.

 

 

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