WAREHOUSE EMPLOYEES’ - GENERAL (STATE) AWARD
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES
Application by the Shop,
Distributive and Allied Employees' Association, New South Wales, and another,
industrial organisation of employees.
(Nos. IRC 1519 and 1520 of 2003)
Before Mr Deputy
President Sams
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27 March 2003
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VARIATION
1. Insert in
numerical order in the Arrangement of the award published 23 November 2001 (329
I.G. 860) the following new clause number and subject matter:
22A. Union Membership Fee Deduction
2. Insert after
subclause (ii), of clause 22, Union Delegates, a new subclause:
(iii) “Union” means
the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees’ Association, New South Wales
and/or the Shop Assistants and Warehouse Employees’ Federation of Australia,
Newcastle and Northern New South Wales.
3. Insert after
clause 22, Union Delegates, the following new clause:
22A. Union Membership Fee Deduction
(i) The employer
shall deduct Union membership fees (not including fines or levies) from the pay
of any employee, provided that:
(a) the employee
has authorised the employer to make such deductions in accordance with
subclause (ii) herein;
(b) the Union
shall advise the employer of the amount to be deducted for each pay period applying
at the employer's workplace and any changes to that amount;
(c) deduction of
union membership fees shall only occur in each pay period in which payment has
or is to be made to an employee; and
(d) there shall be
no requirement to make deductions for casual employees with less than two
months' service (continuous or otherwise).
(ii) The
employee's authorisation shall be in writing and shall authorise the deduction
of an amount of Union fees (including any variation in that fee effected in
accordance with the Union rules) that the Union advises the employer to
deduct. Where the employee passes any
such written authorisation to the Union, the Union shall not pass the written
authorisation on to the employer without first obtaining the employee's consent
to do so. Such consent may form part of
the written authorisation.
(iii) Monies so
deducted from employees' pay shall be remitted to the Union on either a weekly,
fortnightly, monthly or quarterly basis at the employer's election, together
with all necessary information to enable the reconciliation and crediting of
subscriptions to employees' membership accounts, provided that:
(a) where the
employer has elected to remit on a weekly or fortnightly basis, the employer
shall be entitled to retain up to five per cent of the monies deducted; and
(b) where the
employer has elected to remit on a monthly or quarterly basis, the employer
shall be entitled to retain up to 2.5 per cent of the monies deducted.
(iv) Where an
employee has already authorised the deduction of Union membership fees in
writing 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 commence or continue.
(v) The Union
shall advise the employer of any change to the amount of membership fees made
under its rules, provided that this does not occur more than once in any
calendar year. Such advice shall be in
the form of a schedule of fees to be deducted specifying either weekly,
fortnightly, monthly, or quarterly as the case may be. The Union shall give the employer a minimum
of two months' notice of any such change.
(vi) An employee
may at any time revoke in writing an authorisation to the employer to make
payroll deductions of Union membership fees.
(vii) Where an
employee who is a member of the Union and who has authorised the employer to
make payroll deductions of Union membership fees resigns his or her membership
of the Union in accordance with the rules of the Union, the Union shall inform
the employee in writing of the need to revoke the authorisation to the employer
in order for payroll deductions of union membership fees to cease.
4. The above
variations shall take effect:
(i) In the case
of employers which currently deduct union membership fees, or whose payroll
facilities are carried out by way of an outsourcing arrangement, or whose
payroll calculations are made through the use of computerised means, from the
beginning of the first pay period to commence on or after 27 March 2003.
(ii) In the case
of employers who do not fall within subparagraph (i) above, but who currently
make deductions, other than union membership fee deductions or mandatory
deductions (such as for taxation instalments or superannuation contributions)
from employees' pay, or have in place facilities to make such deductions, from
the beginning of the first pay period to commence on or after 27 June 2003.
(iii) For all other
employers, from the beginning of the first pay period to commence on or after
27 September 2003.
5. Delete Items
3, 5, 6 and 7 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
Item No.
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Clause No.
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Brief Description
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Amount
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$
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3
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10
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Meal Allowance
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9.70
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5
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26(i)
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Laundry Allowance – Ironing required
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8.30 per week
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6
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26(i)
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Laundry Allowance – Ironing not required
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5.00 per week
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7
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27
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Use of employee vehicle
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0.51 per km
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6. This
variation shall take effect from the first full pay period commencing on or
after 27 March 2003.
P. J. SAMS D.P.
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Printed by the authority of the Industrial Registrar.