MECHANICAL OPTICIANS (STATE) AWARD
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES
Applications by Automotive,
Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union, New South Wales
Branch, industrial organisation of employees.
(Nos. IRC 6877 of 1999 and 3414 of 2000)
Before Commissioner
McLeay
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26 June 2001
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VARIATION
1. Delete clause
1, Arrangement, of the award published 2 March 2001 (322 I.G. 796), and insert in
lieu thereof the following:
1. Arrangement
Clause No. Subject Matter
1. Arrangement
2. Anti-Discrimination
3. Definitions
4. Wages
5. Apprentices
6. Adult Apprentices
7. Hours
8. Shift Work
9. Overtime
10. Casual and Part-time Employees
11. Meals
12. No Extra Claims
13. Contract of Employment
14. Structural Efficiency
15. Training
16. Enterprise Arrangements
17. Sundays
18. Holidays
19. Annual Leave
20. Long Service Leave
21. Sick Leave
22. Personal/Carer's Leave
23. Parental Leave
24. General Conditions
25. Bereavement Leave
26. Jury Service
27. Shop Stewards
28. Payment of Wages
29. Redundancy
30. Grievance and Dispute
Resolution Procedures
31. Right of Entry
32. Area, Incidence and Duration
Schedule 'A' - Rates
of Pay and Allowances
Part 1 - Rates of Pay
Part 2 - Allowances
2. Delete clause
4, Wages, and insert in lieu thereof the following:
4. Wages
(i) (a) Optical Worker 1 - An adult employee
with no previous experience during the first year of employment in the
industry.
Total Rate: See Schedule A - Part 1
(b) Optical Worker
2 - An adult employee who has been an Optical Worker 1 for twelve months and is
required to carry out the majority of the following functions:
Material Selection;
Painting or Taping;
Grind Blocking:
Tool Selection;
Fining;
Polishing;
Deblocking;
Cleaning;
Grind File;
Template Selection;
Fitting Blocking;
Deblocking (Fitting)
Cleaning (Fitting);
Lens Toughening;
Dispatching;
Tinting.
Total Rate: See
Schedule A - Part 1
(c) Optical Worker
3 - An adult employee who has been an Optical Worker 2 for 12 months and is
required to carry out the majority of the following additional functions:
Automatic Generating;
Template Making;
Automatic Edging;
Layout Marking (Grind and Fitting); or
An adult employee, after working as an Optical Worker 1
for twelve months and carries out vacuum coating operations, computer
calculations, or work in a laboratory service office:
Total Rate: See
Schedule A - Part 1
(d) Optical Worker
4 - An adult employee who has been an Optical Worker 3 for 12 months and is
required to carry out the majority of the following additional functions:
Manual Generating;
Power Checking (Dotting);
Fitting;
Hand Roughing;
Final Checking.
Total Rate: See
Schedule A - Part 1
(e) Optical
Mechanic 1 - A tradesperson who has served an apprenticeship in this industry.
Reject control and determining remedial action after
final checking will be the responsibility of a tradesperson only.
Total Rate: See
Schedule A - Part 1
(f) Optical
Mechanic 2 - An Optical Mechanic 1 with twelve months experience who, through
the application of additional skills, is required by his/her employer to carry
out all of the following work in the normal course of his/her employment, with
minimum supervision:
Fault finding;
Removal of parts, assemblies or machines and arrange
for their repair;
Replacement of parts, assemblies or machines with new
or repaired parts, assemblies or machines.
Total Rate: See
Schedule A - Part 1
(g) Optical
Mechanic 3 - An Optical Mechanic who, through the application of additional
skills, is required by his/her employer to carry out work in a laboratory
and/or a superstore laboratory, in the normal course of his/her employment
without supervision.
Total Rate: See
Schedule A - Part 1
(ii) Contact
Lenses Definitions - The laboratory is split up into a number of work
areas. Some jobs consist of three or
four separate processes, other jobs consist of only one process. An optical worker will train to perform a
majority of the following functions:
Function 1: Base
surface cutting (automatic);
Base curve cutting (manual);
Edge rounding;
Base curve polishing.
Function 2: Blocking;
Front surface cutting (automatic);
Front surface cutting (manual).
Function 3: Edge
curve polishing;
Optic curve polishing;
Final edge rounding.
Function 4: Final dry
lens checking.
Function 5: Slab off
cutting (Accucyls).
Function 6: Toric
bending;
Toric blocking.
Function 7: P/B
fronts;
Optic cutting;
Slab off cutting.
Function 8: Truncation.
Function 9: Final
checking.
Function 10: Intake:
Lens Cleaning:
Despatch.
Function 11: Hard lens
cleanse.
Function 12: Soft lens
cleanse.
Definitions - Contact Lenses -
Optical Worker 1 — An adult employee
during the first year of employment in the industry.
Rate of Pay: See Schedule A - Part 1
Optical worker 2 — An adult
employee who has been an Optical Worker 1 for 12 months, and successfully
performs at least three of the contact Lens functions.
Rate of pay: See Schedule A - Part 1
Optical Worker 3 - An adult
employee who has been Optical Worker 2 for 12 months, and successfully performs
at least five of the Contact Lens functions.
Rate of Pay: See Schedule A - Part 1
Optical Worker 4 - An adult
employee who has been an Optical Worker 3 for 12 months, and successfully
performs at least eight of the contact Lens functions.
Rate of Pay: See Schedule A - Part 1
Definitions - Optical Mechanic -
Optical Mechanic 1 - A
tradesperson who has served an apprenticeship in this industry and performs
functions 1 - 12.
A number of preventative
maintenance and quality control procedures are the responsibility of a
tradesperson:
Setting of NC machinery;
Setting of lathes for sphere;
Inspection, replacement and
setting of diamond tools;
Reject analysis, remedial action;
Rx adjustment.
Rate of pay: See Schedule A - Part 1
Optical Mechanic 2 - An Optical
Mechanic 1 who, through the application of additional skills, is required by
his/her employer to carry out all of the following work in the normal course of
his/her employment:
Fault finding;
Removal and replacement of parts;
Periodic on-line maintenance.
Rate of pay: See Schedule A - Part 1
Optical Mechanic 3 - An Optical
Mechanic 2 who is required to carry out the following quality control and
maintenance reliability procedures:
Acceptance sampling;
Calibration of checking equipment;
Checking and adjustment of
equipment setting.
Rate of pay: See Schedule A - Part 1
(iii) Charge Hands
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(a) In charge of not less than two employees
and not more than ten employees.
(b) In charge of more than ten employees but
not more than twenty employees.
(c) In charge of more than twenty employees.
Allowance(s): See Schedule A - Part 2
(iv) Juniors -
Unapprenticed juniors shall be paid the undermentioned percentages of the total
rate of pay prescribed for Optical Worker 2 in paragraph (b) of subclause (i)
of this clause for adult employees for work in other than a declared trade:
At 16 years of age and under )
At 17 years of age )
At 18 years of age ) See Schedule A - Part 1
At 19 years of age )
At 20 years of age )
Such rates shall be calculated to the nearest 5 cents,
any broken part of 5 cents not exceeding half of 5 cents to be disregarded.
(v) The rates of
pay in this award include the adjustments payable under the State Wage Case
2000. 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.
(vi) Casual
Employee - Casual employees shall be paid at an hourly rate equal to that
appropriate weekly rate divided by forty or by the number of ordinary hours
worked by employees, other than casual or part-time employees, in the
establishment, whichever is the lesser, plus 15 per cent with a minimum payment
of four hours' work at the appropriate rate.
(vii) Part-time
Employee - Part-time employees shall be paid at an hourly rate equal to the appropriate
weekly rate divided by:
(a) 40; or
(b) by the number
of hours worked by weekly employees in the establishment in which the person is
employed, whichever is less.
(viii) The rates of
wages for apprentices shall be as follows:
Per week
$
1st Year )
2nd Year ) See Schedule A - Part 1
3rd Year )
4th Year )
The industry allowance is included in the above rates.
The total wages of apprentices shall be calculated to
the nearest ten cents, less than five cents to go to the lower amount, five
cents or more to go to the higher amount.
(ix) Adult
Apprentices -
(a) Where a person
was employed by an employer in the optical industry immediately prior to
becoming an adult apprentice with that employer, such person shall not suffer a
reduction in the rate of pay by virtue of becoming indentured.
(b) Subject to
paragraph (a) of this subclause, the rate of pay for an adult apprentice shall
be the award wage prescribed in paragraph (a) of subclause (i) of this clause
at the time of undertaking an apprenticeship or the rate prescribed by
subclause (viii) of this clause for the relevant year of apprenticeship,
whichever is the greater.
3. Delete
subclause (ii) of clause 9, Overtime , and insert in lieu thereof the
following:
(ii) Where an employee
is required to work overtime for a period in excess of one and a half hours,
the employee shall be supplied with a meal by the employer or paid the amount
set out in Schedule A - Part 2 (Meal Allowance), where between Monday and
Friday, a second or subsequent meal is taken, the employee shall be supplied
with a meal by the employer or be paid the amount set out in Schedule A - Part
2 (Meal Allowance). This allowance to
be paid on the day when overtime is worked where practicable.
4. Delete
subclause (ix) of clause 24, General Conditions, and insert in lieu thereof the
following:
(ix) First-aid
Allowance - An employee who has been trained to render first-aid and who is the
current holder of appropriate first-aid qualifications such as a certificate
from the St. john Ambulance or similar body, shall be paid a weekly allowance
set out in Schedule A - Part 2 (First-aid Allowance).
5. Insert after
clause 32, Area, Incidence and Duration, the following new Schedule 'A' - Rates
of Pay and Allowances:
Schedule 'A' - Rates of Pay and Allowances
Part 1 - Rates of Pay
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First Phase
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Second Phase
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Optical Worker
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Current Rate
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Effective 26/06/01
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Effective 26/09/01
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($20.00)
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(Remainder)
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$
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$
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$
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1
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376.80
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396.80
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411.80
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2
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395.30
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415.30
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430.30
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3
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428.40
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448.40
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463.40
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4
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436.40
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456.40
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471.40
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Optical
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First Phase
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Second Phase
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Mechanic
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Current Rate
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Effective 26/06/01
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Effective 26/09/01
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($20.00)
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(Remainder)
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$
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$
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$
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1
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484.80
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504.80
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517.80
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2
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500.20
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520.20
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533.20
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3
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512.60
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532.60
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545.60
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Un-Apprenticed Juniors
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Percentage of Optical Worker 2
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%
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16 years and under
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34
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17 years
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43.5
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18 years
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55
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19 years
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68
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20 years
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81
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Apprentice
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Old Rate
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Rate Per Week
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Per Week
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Effective 26/06/01
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$
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$
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1st year
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193.20
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207.40
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2nd year
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282.20
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302.60
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3rd year
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374.00
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400.20
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4th year
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422.00
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451.60
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Part 2 - Allowances
Clause
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Clause
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Description
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Amount
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Number
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Title
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$
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4 (iii)
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Wages - Charge Hands
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Not less than 2 employees and not more than
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10 employees
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17.40
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More than 10 employees but not more than
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20 employees
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26.00
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In charge of more than 20 employees
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33.20
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9 (ii)
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Overtime
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Meal Allowance
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7.60
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24 (ix)
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General Conditions
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First Aid Allowance
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7.20
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6. This variation
shall take effect from the first pay period to commence on or after -
(i) 26 September
2001 in respect to the "Second Phase" of pay increases appearing in
Part 1 - Rates of Pay, of Schedule 'A' - Rates of Pay and Allowances; and
(ii) 26 June 2001
in all other respects.
J. McLEAY, Commissioner.
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Printed by the authority of the Industrial Registrar.