Local Government (Electricians) (State) Award
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES
Application by Local Government NSW, Industrial
Organisation of Employers.
(Case No. 211169 of 2024)
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Before The Honourable Justice Taylor
The
Honourable Justice Chin
The Honourable Justice Paingakulam
Senior Commissioner Constant
Commissioner McDonald
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5 August 2025
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VARIATION
1. Delete clause
1, Arrangement, of the award published 27 July 2022 (Vol 392 I.G. 292) and
reprinted 23 May 2025 (397 I.G. 1973), and insert in lieu thereof the
following:
1. Arrangement
PART A
Clause No. Subject Matter
1. Arrangement
2. Anti-Discrimination
3. Definitions
4. Skill Descriptors
5. Rates of Pay
6. Appointments and Promotions
7. Special Allowances
8. Tool Allowances
9. Terms of Employment
10. Calculation of Service
11. Hours
12. Part-time and Casual Employees
13. Overtime
14. On Call
15. Meal Breaks and Allowances for Overtime
Work
16. Holidays
17. Annual Leave
18. Sick Leave
19. Carer’s Leave
20. Bereavement Leave
20A. Parental Leave
21. Paid Family and Domestic Violence Leave
22. Leave Without Pay
23. Long Service Leave
24. Training
25. Travelling Allowance
26. Higher Paid Work
27. Clothing
28. Driving of Motor Vehicles
29. Industry Allowance
30. Termination of Employment
31. Redundancy and Technological Change
32. Miscellaneous
33. Disciplinary, Grievance and Dispute
Procedures
34. Council Agreement
35. Performance Evaluation and Reward
36. Consultative Mechanisms
37. Jury Service
38. Salary Sacrifice
39. Superannuation Fund Contributions
40. Area, Incidence and Duration
PART B
MONETARY RATES
Table 1 - Wages
Table 2 - Other
Rates and Allowances
Schedule A
Clothing
Regulations
2. Delete
subclause (i) of clause 16,
Holidays, and insert in lieu thereof the following:
(i) The
days on which holidays shall be observed are as follows: New Years Day,
Australia Day, employees picnic day (to be held on such day as is mutually
agreed between the council and the majority of all of its employees) Good
Friday, Easter Saturday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, Anzac Day, King’s
Birthday, Labour Day, Christmas Day, Boxing Day and/or proclaimed public
holidays.
3. Delete
paragraph 19(1)(a) of clause 19, Carere's Leave and
insert in lieu thereof the following:
(i) Use of Sick Leave
(a) An employee,
other than a casual employee, with responsibilities in relation to a class of
person set out in 19(1)(c) who needs the employee’s care and support, shall be
entitled to use, in accordance with this subclause, any current or accrued sick
leave entitlement, provided for at clause 18, Sick Leave of the award, for
absences to provide care and support for such persons when they are ill, or who
require care due to an unexpected emergency. Such leave may be taken for part
of a single day.
4. Delete
paragraph 19(7)(1) of clause 19, Carer's Leave and
insert in lieu thereof the following:
(vii) Personal Carers Entitlement for casual
employees
(1) Subject to the
evidentiary and notice requirements in 19(1)(b) and 19(1)(d) casual employees
are entitled to not be available to attend work, or to leave work if they need
to care for a person prescribed in subclause 19(1)(c) of this clause who are
sick and require care and support, or who require care due to an unexpected
emergency, or the birth of a child.
5. Delete
paragraph 20(vi)(a) of clause 20, Bereavement Leave, and insert in lieu thereof
the following:
(vi) Bereavement
entitlements for casual employees
(a) Subject to the
evidentiary and notice requirements in 20(ii) casual employees are entitled to
not be available to attend work, or to leave work upon the death in Australia
of a person prescribed in subclause 19(1)(c) of clause 19, Carer's Leave.
6. Insert after
clause 20, Parental Leave, the following new clause 21, and renumber subsequent
clauses accordingly:
21.
Paid Family and Domestic Violence Leave
(i) Subdivision
CA of Division 7 of Part 2-2 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) forms part of this Award.
Note:
• Division 2A of Part 6-3 of the Fair
Work Act 2009 (Cth) extends federal entitlements
to family and domestic leave to all employees/employers, including NSW local
government employers/employees.
• Under the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) all employees can access 10 days of paid family and
domestic violence leave during each 12 month period of
employment. This includes part-time and casual employees. The entitlement does
not accumulate from year to year.
7. Delete
subclause (xi) of clause 31, Redundancy and Technological Change (formerly
clause 30) and insert in lieu thereof the following
(xi) The council
shall, upon receipt of a request from an employee whose employment has been
terminated, provide to the employee an "Employment Separation
Certificate" in the form required by the Department of Social Services.
8. Delete
subclause (ii) of clause 34, Council Agreement (formerly clause 33) and insert
in lieu thereof the following:
(ii) The terms of
any agreement reached between the parties shall substitute for the provisions
of the award provided that:
(a) the extent of
the agreement shall be limited to the award's Clause 5, Rates of Pay, Clause 25
Travelling Allowances, Clause 11 Hours, Clause 13 Overtime, Clause 16 Public
Holidays, Clause 12 Part time Employment and Clause 35 Performance Evaluation
and Reward.
(b) the agreement
does not provide less than the entry level rates of pay
(c) the agreement
is consistent with the Industrial Relations Act NSW 1996 and current
Award Making Principles
(d) the agreement
shall be processed in accordance with subclause (iii) of this Clause.
Provided further that, where the agreement proposes to vary
award provisions other than those nominated in paragraph (a) above, the
agreement shall be processed in accordance with the Review of the Principles
for Approval of Enterprise Agreements 2021/2022 [2022] NSWIRComm
1005.
9. Delete
paragraph (iii)(d) of clause 34, Council Agreement and insert in lieu thereof
the following:
(d) the Council and
the appropriate union(s) shall sign the agreement and
a copy sent to Local Government NSW
10. Delete Clause
39. Superannuation Fund Contributions (formerly clause 38), and insert in lieu
thereof the following:
39. Superannuation Fund Contributions
Subject to the provisions of the Industrial Relations Act
1996, a council shall make superannuation contributions to Vision Super and not
to any other superannuation fund.
11. Delete clause
40, Area, Incidence, and Duration (formerly clause 39), and insert in lieu
thereof the following:
40. Area, Incidence
and Duration
This award shall take effect from the first pay period to
commence on or after 7 December 1995 and shall remain in force for a period of
twelve months.
This award was reviewed as part of the State Wage Case 2024
and all variations made pursuant to that review take effect from 1 September
2024.
This award shall apply to all councils (as defined in Clause
3) in Local Government within New South Wales (other than the Council of
Sydney, the Council of the City of South Sydney and the Council of the city of
Newcastle and also excluding the County of Yancowinna).
This award shall only apply to persons engaged in the
industries and callings of makers, fitters, repairers and installers of
electrical apparatus and installations, and persons assisting therein, or in
running electrical plant.
Provided further that this award shall apply only to
employees who are members of, or are eligible to be
members of the Electrical Trades Union of Australia, New South Wales.
12. Delete Part B,
Monetary Rates and insert in lieu thereof the following:
PART B
MONETARY RATES
The rates of pay and allowances in Part B, Monetary Rates
take effect from the first pay period on or after 1 September 2024.
Note: The rates of pay and allowances in this award include
the adjustments payable under the State Wage Case 2024. These adjustments may offset any or both of:
i. Any
equivalent over award payments, and/or
ii. Award wage
increases other than State Wage Case adjustments.
Table 1 - Wage Rates - Clause 5
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2022
Rate of Pay Per Week
$
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2023
Rate of Pay Per Week
$
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2024
Rate of Pay Per Week
$
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Technical/Trades Band Level 1
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1,022.19
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1,080.97
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1,121.51
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Technical/Trades Band Level 2
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1,124.29
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1,188.94
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1,233.53
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Technical/Trades Band Level 3
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1,286.18
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1,360.14
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1,411.15
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Professional Band Level 1
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1,124.29
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1,188.94
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1,233.53
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Professional Band Level 2
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1,286.18
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1,360.14
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1,411.15
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Professional Band Level 3
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1,441.96
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1,524.87
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1,582.05
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Professional Band Level 4
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1,685.14
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1,782.04
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1,848.87
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Apprentice 1st Year
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565.75
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598.28
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620.72
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Apprentice 2nd Year
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668.07
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706.48
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915.90
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Apprentice 3rd Year
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767.68
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811.82
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915.90
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Apprentice 4th Year
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864.44
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914.15
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948.43
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Table 2 - Other Rates and Allowances
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2022
Amount
$
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2023
Amount
$
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2024
Amount
$
3.75%
increase
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Clause 7 - Special Allowances
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(i)Wages
(a) Dirty work, etc.
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0.43
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0.45
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0.47
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(b) Wet places
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0.48
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0.51
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0.53
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(c) Confined spaces
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0.48
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0.51
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0.53
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(d) Working underground
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0.43
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0.45
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0.47
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(e) Working with raw sewerage
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9.54
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10.09
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10.47
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Clause 8 - Tool Allowances
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(i)
Electrical Tradesperson
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39.38
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41.64
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43.20
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(iv)(b) Amount payable by
employee for each claim for compensation of loss of tools
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100.03
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105.78
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109.75
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Clause 14 - On Call
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(iii) On call allowance
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130.14
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137.62
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142.78
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Clause 15 - Meal Breaks and
Allowances for Overtime Work
(i)
Meal allowance
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17.34
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18.34
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19.03
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(ii)(a) Meal allowance
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17.34
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18.34
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19.03
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(ii)(b) Meal allowance
working 4 hours overtime
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13.31
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14.08
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14.61
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Clause 25 - Travelling
Allowance
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Where the employee works at a
distance from the depot greater than:
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(ii) 3-10 km
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6.11
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6.46
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6.70
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10-20 km
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11.01
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11.64
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12.08
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20-30 km
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15.71
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16.61
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17.23
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30-40 km
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20.29
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21.46
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22.26
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40-50 km
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25.20
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26.65
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27.65
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For each additional kilometre
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0.47
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0.50
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0.52
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Clause 28 - Driving of Motor
Vehicles
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(ii)(a) Use of private
vehicle (cents) per kilometre
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Under 2.5 litres
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0.74
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0.78
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0.81
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2.5 litres and over
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0.85
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0.90
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0.93
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(b) Minimum yearly allowance
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8,243.59
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8,717.60
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9,044.50
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Clause 29 - Industry
Allowance
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Industry Allowance
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65.02
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68.76
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71.34
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Clause 32 - Miscellaneous
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(ii)(a) West of the line
allowance
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1.12
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1.18
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1.22
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(iii) First-aid allowance
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3.79
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4.01
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4.16
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13. This variation
shall take effect from the first full pay period commencing on or after 1
September 2024.
I. TAYLOR J., President
D. CHIN J., Vice President
J. PAINGAKULAM J., Deputy President
N. CONSTANT, Senior Commissioner
J. MCDONALD, Commissioner
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Printed by
the authority of the Industrial Registrar.