PRIVATE HOSPITAL AND NURSING HOME NURSES' SUPERANNUATION (STATE) AWARD

 

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES

 

Application by New South Wales Nurses Association, industrial organisation of employees.

 

(No. IRC 6872 of 2004)

 

 

VARIATION

 

1.          Delete Clause 5, Contributions of the award published 25 June 2004 (345 I.G. 1) and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

5.  Contributions

 

(i)

 

(a)        This subclause shall only apply to employees of:

 

(1)        private hospitals that are members of the Private Hospitals Association of NSW Inc as at 29 July 2005;

 

(2)        nursing homes owned by the Moran Health Care Group.

 

(3)        the Private Hospitals listed below

 

Manly Waters Private Hospital

 

Delmar Private Hospital

 

Eastern Suburbs Private Hospital

 

President Private Hospital

 

Hurstville Community Private Hospital

 

Lithgow Community Private Hospital.

 

Minchinbury Community Private Hospital

 

Note: Employers covered by subparagraph (1) will continue to be bound by the provisions of this subclause regardless of whether the employer remains a member of the Private Hospital Association of NSW.

 

(b)        For qualified employees the employer shall, in respect of each employee, pay a sum equal to the Superannuation Guarantee legislation, as amended from time to time, of the employee’s gross ordinary time earnings into an approved fund. Such contributions shall be remitted to the approved fund on a monthly basis. With respect to casual employees, contributions shall be remitted at the time that employees receive their annual group certificates

 

(ii)        For employers who are not the subject of subclause (i) the following shall apply.

 

(a)        The employer shall make, in respect of qualified employees, superannuation contributions of three per cent of ordinary-time earnings into an approved fund on a monthly basis. With respect to casual employees, contributions shall be remitted at the time that employees receive their annual group certificates.

 

(iii)       An employee may nominate one complying fund to which all award and statutory superannuation contributions shall be paid, subject to employer approval of the fund nominated by the employee. Provided that the employer shall not unreasonably withhold agreement unless it establishes good and proper reasons for the withholding of the agreement.

 

(iv)       Where no such nomination is made before any such contributions become payable, the contributions referred to in subclauses (i)(b) and (ii)(a) of this clause will be paid to the approved fund for that place of employment."

 

2.          This variation shall take effect from the first pay period commencing on or  from 29 July 2005.

 

 

 

R. P. BOLAND  J.

 

 

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