SUGAR FIELD WORKERS (STATE) CONSOLIDATED AWARD

 

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES

 

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

 

(No. IRC 5723 of 2003)

 

 

REVIEWED AWARD

 

1.          Renumber in the Arrangement of the award published 16 March 2001 (323 I.G. 64), clause 27A, Deduction of Union Membership Fees to read as clause 28 and renumber the existing clause 28, Area, Incidence and Duration to read as clause 29.

 

28.       Deduction of Union Membership Fees

29.       Area, Incidence and Duration

 

2.          Delete the words "leisure day" wherever appearing in clause 2, Implementation of the 38 - Hour Week, and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

Rostered Day Off

 

3.          Delete the acronym "TAFE" appearing in subclause 1 of clause 5, Definitions and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

Registered Training Organisation

 

4.          Delete clause 8, Enterprise Arrangements, and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

8.  Enterprise Arrangements

 

See the enterprise arrangements principle of the State Wage Case decision of May 2003.

 

5.          Delete the word "Local Labour Day" appearing in subclause (i), of clause 10, Sundays and Holidays, and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

Labour Day

 

6.          Delete subclause (ii) of clause 12, Annual Holidays Loading, and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

(ii)        Before an employee is given and takes an annual holiday or where, by agreement between the employer and employee, the annual holiday is given and taken in more than one separate period, then before each of such separate periods the employer shall pay the employee a loading determined in accordance with this clause.

 

(NOTE: The obligation to pay in advance does not apply where an employee takes an annual holiday wholly or partly in advance - see subclause (vi) of this clause.)

 

7.          Delete subclause (iii) of clause 20, Bereavement Leave, and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

(iii)       Bereavement leave shall be available to the employee in respect to the death of a person prescribed for the purposes of personal carer’s leave as set out in subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (c) of subclause (1) of Clause 14, Personal/Carer’s Leave, provided that for the purposes of bereavement leave, the employee need not have been responsible for the care of the person concerned.

 

8.          Delete the words "Employment National" wherever appearing in paragraph (D) (vi) of clause 24, Redundancy, and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

Centrelink

 

9.          Delete subclause (c) of clause 25, Superannuation, and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

(c)        The employer shall contribute to the Fund in accordance with the legislation provided that employer contributions do not fall below 3% of ordinary time earnings:

 

Notation: Employer contributions under relevant legislation are set at 9% from 1st July 2002.

 

10.        Delete clause 26, Training Wage, and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

See Rural Traineeships (State) Award published on 16 June 2000 (316 I.G. 605) as varied or any successor to the industrial instrument.

 

11.        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 5 January 2004.

 

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

 

 

 

J. P. GRAYSON  D.P.

 

 

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