JOURNALISTS' SURBURBAN NEWSPAPERS (STATE) AWARD
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES
Application by Media,
Entertainment and Arts Alliance New South Wales, industrial organisation of
employees.
(No. IRC 5563 of 2002)
Before The Honourable
Mr Justice Peterson
|
17 October 2002
|
VARIATION
1. Delete
subclause (d) of clause 5, Supplementary Payments, of the award 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
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
(a) Journalists
and press photographers working on newspapers published on five or more days in
a week -
Classification
|
Previous minimum
|
SNA
|
Column 1 minimum
|
Column 2 minimum
|
|
weekly rates of pay
|
2002
|
weekly rates of pay
|
weekly rates of pay
|
|
($)
|
($)
|
($)
|
($)
|
Grade 1
|
495.00
|
18.00
|
513.00
|
543.80
|
Grade 2
|
568.30
|
18.00
|
586.30
|
621.50
|
Grade 3
|
653.70
|
18.00
|
671.70
|
712.00
|
Grade 4
|
698.50
|
18.00
|
716.50
|
759.50
|
Grade 5
|
739.20
|
18.00
|
757.20
|
802.65
|
Grade 6
|
790.10
|
18.00
|
808.10
|
856.60
|
Grade 7
|
847.10
|
18.00
|
865.10
|
917.00
|
(b) Journalists
and press photographers working or newspapers published on less than five days
in a week -
Classification
|
Previous minimum
|
SNA
|
Column 1 minimum
|
Column 2 minimum
|
|
weekly rates of pay
|
2002
|
weekly rates of pay
|
weekly rates of pay
|
|
($)
|
($)
|
$
|
$
|
1 (AJA 1a)
|
495.00
|
18.00
|
513.00
|
543.80
|
2 (AJA 1b)
|
550.00
|
18.00
|
568.00
|
602.10
|
3 (AJA 2)
|
588.00
|
18.00
|
606.00
|
642.40
|
4 (AJA 3)
|
|
|
|
|
5 (AJA 4)
|
678.20
|
18.00
|
696.20
|
738.00
|
6 (AJA 5)
|
|
|
|
|
7 (AJA 6)
|
790.10
|
18.00
|
808.10
|
856.60
|
* 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 2002
|
Supplementary
payment per week
|
|
$
|
$
|
Grade 1
|
3.5%
|
9.70
|
Grade 2
|
3.5%
|
13.45
|
Grade 3
|
3.5%
|
19.04
|
Grade 4
|
3.5%
|
20.00
|
Grade 5
|
3.5%
|
22.35
|
Grade 6
|
3.5%
|
25.95
|
(d)
Grade
|
SNA 2002
|
Supplementary
payment per week
|
|
$
|
$
|
AJA 1a
|
3.5%
|
55.30
|
AJA 1b
|
3.5%
|
56.40
|
AJA 2
|
3.5%
|
48.00
|
AJA 3
|
3.5%
|
TBD
|
AJA 4
|
3.5%
|
22.10
|
AJA 5
|
3.5%
|
TBD
|
AJA 6
|
3.5%
|
25.60
|
3. This
variation shall take effect from the first full pay period to commence on or
after 17 October 2002.
R. J. PETERSON J.
____________________
Printed by
the authority of the Industrial Registrar.