Plasterers, Shop Hands and Casters
(State) Consolidated Award
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES
Application by Construction,
Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (New South Wales Branch), Industrial Organisation
of Employees.
(No. IRC 2619 of 2006)
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Before The Honourable
Justice Kavanagh
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6 July 2006
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VARIATION
1. Delete clause
3, Wages of the award published 22 April 2005 (350 I.G. 331), and insert in
lieu thereof the following:
3. Wages
(i) The following
minimum rates of pay shall be paid to adult employees:
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Total Rate Eff
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SWC 2005
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Total Rate
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SWC 2006
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Total Rate Eff
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Classification
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10/07/05
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SWC 2005
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10/07/06
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$
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$
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$
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$
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$
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Shop Hand
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561.30
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17.00
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578.30
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20.00
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598.30
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Caster
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475.90
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17.00
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492.90
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20.00
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512.90
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Mechanical Cornice
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Attendant & Operator
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467.40
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17.00
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484.40
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20.00
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504.40
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Cornice Machine
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Attendant
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467.40
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17.00
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484.40
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20.00
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504.40
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All Others
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467.40
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17.00
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484.40
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20.00
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504.40
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Tool Allowances
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$
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Shop Hand
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3.20
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Caster
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1.30
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(ii) Junior
casters minimum rates of pay shall be the rates set out hereunder calculated to
the nearest five cents, any fraction of
five cents in the result not exceeding half of five cents to be
disregarded:
Percentage of the sum of the total wage assigned to an
adult caster
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Percentage per week
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%
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1st year
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48
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2nd year
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68
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3rd year
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90
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(iii) Casual
Employees.--A casual employee, that is an employee engaged for less than forty
hours per week, shall be paid one-fifth of the weekly rate plus 10 per centum
per day or portion thereof.
(iv) Leading Hands:
(a) An employee
appointed to be in charge of more than two and up to and including five
employees shall be a leading hand and shall be paid $15.44 per week extra.
(b) An employee
appointed to be in charge of more than five and up to and including ten
employees shall be a leading hand and shall be paid $19.52 per week extra.
(c) An employee
appointed to be in charge of more than ten employees shall be a leading hand
and shall be paid $27.49 per week extra.
(v) Where an
employee is sent from a shop to a job to perform casters and/or fibrous fixers
and gypsum plasterboard fixers' work the worker shall be paid the hourly rates
and conditions applying to fixers in the Building and Construction Industry
(State) Award whilst he or she is actually employed on this work and this
hourly rate shall be paid in lieu of normal pay.
2. Delete clause
4, State Wage Case Adjustments, and insert in lieu thereof the following:
4. State Wage Case
Adjustments
The rates of pay in this award include the adjustments payable
under State Wage Case 2006. These
adjustments may be offset against:
(i) any
equivalent over-award payments and/or
(ii) award wage
increases since 29 May, 1991 other than Safety Net, State Wage Case and minimum
rates adjustments
3. This variation
shall take effect from the beginning of the first pay period to commence on or
after 10 July 2006.
T.
M. KAVANAGH
J
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Printed by
the authority of the Industrial Registrar.