JEWELLERS AND WATCHMAKERS, &c. (STATE) AWARD

 

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES

 

Review of Award pursuant to Section 19 of the Industrial Relations Act 1996.

 

(No. IRC 5674 of 2003)

 

 

REVIEWED AWARD

 

1.          Delete clauses 18, State Personal Carer's Leave Case August 1996 and clause 24, Redundancy and Retrenchment Provisions of the Arrangement of the award published 1 March 2002 (331 I.G. 1023), and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

18.       Personal/Carer's Leave

24.       Redundancy

 

2.          Delete paragraph 2.3(d) of clause 2, Conditions of Employment.

 

3.          Insert after subclause 2.3 of clause 2, Conditions of Employment the following new subclause:

 

2.4        Casual Employees are engaged and paid as such.

 

4.          Renumber existing subclause 2.4 to read as subclause 2.5.

 

5.          Delete subclause 5.4 of clause 5, Hours, and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

5.4        Within the commencing and ceasing times prescribed in subclauses 5.2 and 5.3 of this clause, employees shall be given a regular starting and finishing time for each day which shall not change except by a minimum of seven days notice or unless by agreement with the employee or in the event of an emergency.

 

6.          Delete subclause 13.1 of clause 13, Holidays, and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

13.1      The days observed as New Year's Day, Australia Day, Good Friday, Easter Saturday, Easter Monday, Anzac Day, Queen's Birthday, Labour Day, Christmas Day, Boxing Day and all days proclaimed as public holidays for the State shall be holidays; provided that any day proclaimed as a holiday for the State for a special purpose but observed throughout the State on different days shall also be a holiday.

 

7.          Delete subclause 24.6 of clause 24, Redundancy and Retrenchment Provisions and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

24.6      Savings - Nothing in these provisions shall be construed so as to require the reduction or alteration of more advantageous benefits or conditions which an employee may be entitled to under any existing redundancy arrangement, taken as a whole, between the union and any employer bound by this award.

 

8.          Delete paragraphs 24.4(vi) and 24.4(vii) of clause 24, Redundancy and Retrenchment Provisions and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

(vi)       Notice to Centrelink - Where a decision has been made to terminate employees, the employer shall notify the Commonwealth Employment Service thereof as soon as possible, giving the relevant information, including the number and categories of the employees likely to be affected and the period over which the terminations are intended to be carried out.

 

(vii)      Centrelink Separation Certificate - The employer shall, upon receipt of a request from an employee whose employment has been terminated, provide to the employee an Employment Separation Certificate in the form required by the Centrelink.

 

9.          The changes made to the award pursuant to the Award Review pursuant to section 19(6) of the Industrial Relations Act, 1996 and Principle 26 of the Principles for Review of Awards made by the Industrial Relations Commission of NSW on 28 April 1999 (310 I.G. 359) and take effect on 22 December 2003.

 

This award remains in force until varied or rescinded, the period for which it was made already having expired.

 

 

 

I. TABBAA, Commissioner.

 

 

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Printed by the authority of the Industrial Registrar.