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PLUMBERS AND GASFITTERS (STATE) AWARD
  
Date09/27/2002
Volume336
Part4
Page No.
DescriptionVSW - Variation following State Wage Case
Publication No.C1390
CategoryAward
Award Code 539  
Date Posted09/26/2002

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BEFORE THE INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION

(539)

SERIAL C1390

 

PLUMBERS AND GASFITTERS (STATE) AWARD

 

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES

 

Application by The New South Wales Plumbers and Gasfitters Employees' Union, industrial organisation of employees.

 

(No. IRC 3361 of 2002)

 

Before The Honourable Justice Haylen

28 June 2002

 

VARIATION

 

1.          Delete paragraph (e) of subclause (2) of clause 6, Wages, of the award published 12 September 1997 and reviewed award published 25 February 2000 (313 I.G. 709) as varied, and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

(e)        The rates of pay in this award include the adjustments payable under the State Wage Case 2002. These adjustments may be offset against:

 

(i)         any equivalent overaward payments; and/or

 

(ii)        award wage increases since 29 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:

 

Table 1 - Rates of Pay

 

(effective first full pay period on or after 16 August 2002)

 

(i)         Wages -

 

Classification

Amount

 

$

Journeyperson Plumber Margin for Skill -

369.10 per week

Arbitrated Safety Net Adjustments -

106.00 per week

Hourly Rate -

16.11 per hour

Ships Plumber Margin for Skill-

369.10 per week

Arbitrated Safety Net Adjustments -

106.00 per week

Hourly Rate -

15.85 per hour

 

(ii)        Wages Apprentices - Indentured Apprentices - For apprentices employed by employers bound by this award, other than those employed in ship’s plumbing, the following wage rates shall apply:

 

Years of

Former Rate

Industry Allowance

Special allowance

SWC 2002

Total Per

Service

Per Week

Per Week

Per week

$

Week

 

$

$

$

 

$

Building Industry -

1st year

171.00

19.70

17.10

6.00

213.80

2nd year

250.00

19.70

25.30

8.80

303.80

3rd year

329.40

19.70

32.50

11.50

393.10

4thyear

387.40

19.70

38.70

13.60

459.40

For all other apprentices -

1st year

171.00

 

 

6.00

177.00

2nd year

250.00

 

 

8.80

258.80

3rd year

329.40

 

 

11.50

340.90

4th year

387.40

 

 

13.60

401.00

 

Trainee Apprentices - Building Industry-

 

Years of

Former Rate

Industry Allowance

Special Allowance

SWC 2002

Total Per

Service

Per Week

Per week

Per Week

$

Week $

 

$

$

$

 

 

Building Industry -

1st year

193.20

19.70

18.40

6.80

238.10

2nd year

281.10

19.70

27.90

9.80

338.50

3rd year

363.50

19.70

35.30

12.70

431.20

4th year

409.00

19.70

43.10

14.30

486.10

For all other apprentices -

1st year

193.20

 

 

6.80

200.00

2nd year

281.10

 

 

9.80

290.90

3rd year

363.50

 

 

12.70

376.20

4th year

409.00

 

 

14.30

423.30

 

3.          Delete Item Nos. 1 to 54 and 73 of Table 2 - Other Rates and Allowances, of Part B, Monetary Rates, and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

Table 2 - Other Rates and Allowances

 

(effective first full pay Period on or after 16 August 2002)

 

Item

Clause No.

Brief Description

Amount $

No.

 

 

 

1

6(2)(a)(i),(ii), (iii)

Journeyman Plumber (Other than Ship’s Plumber) -

 

 

 

Industry Allowance

19.70 per week

 

 

Tool Allowance

20.30 per week

 

 

Supplementary Payment

52.10 per week

 

 

Special Allowance

7.70 per week

 

 

Registration Allowance

0.52 per hour

 

6(2)(b)

Amount deducted from hourly rate of journeyman

 

 

 

plumber for Drainer

0.05

2

6(2)(c)(i),(ii),

Ship’s Plumber -

 

 

(iii),(iv)

Industry Allowance

10.40 per week

 

 

Tool Allowance

20.30 per week

 

 

Supplementary Payment

52.10 per week

 

 

Special Allowance

7.70 per week

 

 

Registration Allowance

0.52 per hour

 

6(2)(d)(iii)(a)

Ships Plumbers Apprentice

4.35 per week

3

7(i)(a)

Plumber’s Licence

0.68 per hour

4

7(i)(b)

Gasfitter’s Licence

0.68 per hour

5

7(i)(c)

Drainer’s Licence

0.58 per hour

6

7(i)(d)

Plumber’s and Gasfitter’s Licence

0.91 per hour

7

7(i)(e)

Plumber’s and Drainer’s Licence

0.91 per hour

8

7(i)(f)

Gasfitter’s and Drainer’s Licence

0.91 per hour

9

7(i)(g)

Plumber’s, Gasfitter’s and Drainer’s Licence

1.25 per hour

10

7(ii)

Licensed Drainer

0.58 per hour

11

7(iii)(a)

Lead Burner

0.59 per hour

12

7(iii)(b)

Lead Burner in Chemical Works

0.81 per hour

13

7(iii)(c)(1)

Oxyacetylene or Electric Welding Certificate

0.42 per hour

 

 

Minimum Payment

2.95 per day

14

7(iii)(c)(2)

Certificate Holder performing welding to AS4041 - 1998

0.61 per hour

 

 

Minimum

4.68 per day

15

7(iii)(d)

Computing quantities or make-up estimates

0.45 per hour

16

8(i)

Tool Allowance Apprentices

20.30 per week

17

9

Leading Hands -

 

 

 

In charge of up to two employees

0.61 per hour

 

 

In charge of three to five employees

0.73 per hour

 

 

In charge of six to ten employees

0.95 per hour

 

 

In charge of ten or more employees

1.20 per hour

18

10

Employed on any chokage or oil chokage etc.

5.05 per day

19

11(i)

Wet Work

0.45 per hour

20

11(ii)

Insulation Material

0.55 per hour

21

11(iii)

Cold Work

0.45 per hour

22

11(iv)

Work on WC’s, urinals, soil or waste pipes where used

 

 

 

principally by venereal patients

0.55 per hour

23

11(v)

Hot Work -

 

 

 

Between 46 and 54 degrees Celsius

0.43 per hour

 

 

Exceeding 54 degrees Celsius

0.55 per hour

24

11(vi)

Work with second-hand materials of an unusually dirty

 

 

 

or offensive nature

0.45 per day

25

11(vii)

Employed inside buildings where chlorine gas and/or

 

 

 

hydrogen sulphide gas re-manufactured

0.56 per day

26

11(viii)

Engaged on electric welding applicable to plumbing

0.12 per hour

27

11(ix)

Operator of explosive powered tools

1.06 per day

28

11(x)(a)

Work in maximum security

1.13 per hour

29

11(x)(b)

Work in geriatric hospital

0.31 per hour

30

11(xi)

Roof Repairs

0.63 per hour

 

 

Minimum Payment

0.63

31

11(xiii)

Employed in mental institutions

0.38 per hour

32

11(xiv)

Engaged in tunnel and sewer work and in underground

0.46 per hour

 

 

shafts exceeding 3 metres in depth

 

33

11(xv)

Engaged on alterations or repairs to boilers, flues,

 

 

 

furnaces, retorts and kilns

1.19 per hour

34

11(xvi)

Engaged on the construction of chimneys and air shafts

 

 

 

where construction exceeded 15 metres in height

0.45 per hour

 

 

Additional amount for work above each further 15

 

 

 

metres

0.45 per hour

35

11(xvii)

Employees required to work in a bosun’s chair or on a

 

 

 

swinging scaffold -

 

 

 

First 4 hours

3.23

 

 

For each hour thereafter

0.67 per hour

36

11(xviii)

Work on any structure at a height of more than 12.2

 

 

 

metres

0.45 per hour

37

11(xix)

Employees in sanitary works

4.95 per day

38

11(xx)

Employees in slaughtering yards

0.30 per hour

39

11(xxii)(a)

Employees working west and north of and excluding

 

 

 

State highway No. 17 etc, up to the Western Division

 

0.73 per day

40

11(xxii)(b)

Employees working in the Western Division

1.19 per day

41

11(xxii)(c)

Employees working in the southern districts

1.19 per day

42

11(xxiii)

Engaged in cramped position or without sufficient

 

 

 

ventilation

0.55 per hour

43

11(xxiv)

Employees required to use materials containing asbestos

 

 

 

or to work near asbestos

 

0.55 per hour

44

11(xxv)

Towers Allowance -

 

 

 

Exceeding 15 metres - for all work above 15 metres

0.45 per hour

 

 

For work above each further 15 metres

0.45 per hour

45

11(xxvi)(c)

Toxic Substances -

 

 

 

Employees using

0.55 per hour

 

 

Employee working in close proximity

0.45 per hour

46

11(xxx)(d)

Engaged in asbestos eradication

1.49 per hour

47

12(i)

Employees working in ballast tanks, oil tanks and side

0.55 per hour

 

 

tanks

 

48

12(ii)

Employees working in ship’s bilges or under engine

 

 

 

room or boiler room flooring

0.41 per hour

49

12(iii)

Employees working in and around diesel engines

0.41 per hour

50

12(iv)

Employees working in a confined space

0.58 per hour

51

12(v)(1)

Employees working inside a hull

0.70 per hour

52

12(v)(2)

Employees working in torpedo compartments, ballast

 

 

 

tanks, oil tanks, below floor plates

1.26 per hour

53

12(vi)

Plumber in pipe laundry

0.90 per hour

54

13(iii)

Multi-story Allowance -

 

 

 

from commencement to 15th floor

0.36 per hour

 

 

from 16th to 30th floor

0.43 per hour

 

 

from 31st to 45th floor

0.67 per hour

 

 

from 46th to 60th floor

0.85 per hour

 

 

from 61st floor onwards

1.07 per hour

73

43(ii)

First Aid Allowance

1.90

 

 

4.          This variation shall take effect from the first pay period to commence on or after 16 August 2002.

 

 

 

 

W. R. HAYLEN  J.

 

 

 

 

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