PUBLIC TRANSPORT CONSTRUCTION AWARD

 

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES

 

Application by The Australian Workers' Union, New South Wales, industrial organisation of employees.

 

(No. IRC 55 of 2003)

 

 

VARIATION

 

1.          Insert in numerical order into clause 1, Arrangement, of the award published 10 August 2001 (326 I.G. 1044), the following new clause number and subject matter:

 

33A.    Deduction of Union Membership Fees

 

2.          Insert after clause 33, Anti Discrimination, of the award, the following new clause:

 

33A.  Deduction of Union Membership Fees

 

(i)         The union shall provide the employer with a schedule setting out union fortnightly membership fees payable by members of the union in accordance with the union’s rules.

 

(ii)        The union shall advise the employer of any change to the amount of fortnightly membership fees made under its rules. Any variation to the schedule of union fortnightly membership fees payable shall be provided to the employer at least one month in advance of the variation taking effect.

 

(iii)       Subject to (i) and (ii) above, the employer shall deduct union fortnightly membership fees from the pay of any employee who is a member of the union in accordance with the union’s rules, provided that the employee has authorised the employer to make such deductions.

 

(iv)       Monies so deducted from employee’s pay shall be forwarded regularly to the union together with the necessary information to enable the union to reconcile and credit subscriptions to employees’ union membership accounts.

 

(v)        Unless other arrangements are agreed to by the employer and the union, all union membership fees shall be deducted on a fortnightly basis.

 

(vi)       Where an employee has already authorised the deduction of union membership fees from his or her pay prior to this clause taking effect, nothing in this clause shall be read as requiring the employee to make a fresh authorisation in order for such deductions to continue.

 

3.          This variation shall take effect from the first pay period after 14 January 2003.

 

T. M. KAVANAGH  J.

 

 

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