JOURNALISTS' SUBURBAN NEWSPAPERS (STATE) AWARD

 

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES

 

Application by the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance New South Wales, industrial organisation of employees.

 

(No. IRC 6116 of 2001)

 

 

VARIATION

 

1.          Delete subclause (d) of clause 5, Supplementary Payments, of the award published 3 February 1995 and award review published 28 June 2002 (334 I.G. 711) and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

(d)        The rates of pay in this award include the adjustments payable under the State Wage Case 2001.  These adjustments may be offset against:

 

(i)         any equivalent overaward payments, and/or

 

(ii)        award wage increase  since 20 May 1991 other than safety net, State Wage Case and Minimum rates adjustments.

 

2.          Delete Table 1 - Rates of Pay, of Part B, Monetary Rates and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

PART B

 

MONETARY RATES

 

Table 1 - Rates of Pay

 

(a)        Journalists and press photographers working on newspapers published on five or more days in a week -

 

Classification	Previous minimum	ASNA	Column 1 minimum	Column 2 minimum
	weekly rates of pay	2001	weekly rates of pay	weekly rates of pay
	($)	($)	($)	($)
Grade 1	482.00	13.00	495.00	524.70
Grade 2	553.30	15.00	568.30	602.40
Grade 3	636.70	17.00	653.70	692.90
Grade 4	681.50	17.00	698.50	740.40
Grade 5	722.20	17.00	739.20	783.55
Grade 6	773.10	17.00	790.10	837.50
Grade 7	830.10	17.00	847.10	897.90

 

(b)        Journalists and press photographers working or newspapers published on less than five days in a week -

 

Classification	Previous minimum	ASNA	Column 1 minimum	Column 2 minimum
	weekly rates of pay	2001	weekly rates of pay	weekly rates of pay
	($)	($)	$	$
1 (AJA 1a)	482.00	13.00	495.00	524.70
2 (AJA 1b)	535.00	15.00	550.00	583.00
3 (AJA 2)	573.00	15.00	588.00	623.30
4 (AJA 3)	-	-	-	-
5 (AJA 4)	661.20	17.00	678.20	718.90
6 (AJA 5)	-	-	-	-
7 (AJA 6)	773.10	17.00	790.10	837.50

 

* The minimum rate of pay in column 2 is the sum of the minimum rate of pay in column 1 and an allowance of six percent, paid to an employee required to use a visual display terminal in the creation or editing or editorial material in production.

 

(c)

 

Grade	SNA	Supplementary payment per week
	$	$
Grade 1	3%	9.40
Grade 2	3%	13.00
Grade 3	3%	18.40
Grade 4	3%	19.30
Grade 5	3%	21.60
Grade 6	3%	25.05

 

(d)

 

Grade	SNA	Supplementary payment per week
	$	$
AJA 1a	3%	53.40
AJA 1b	3%	54.50
AJA 2	3%	46.40
AJA 3	3%	TBD
AJA 4	3%	21.35
AJA 5	3%	TBD
AJA 6	3%	24.75

 

3.          This variation shall take effect from the first full pay period to commence on or after 8 October 2001.

 

 

M. SCHMIDT  J.

 

 

 

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