Bacon Factory Employees (Cumberland) Consolidated Award

 

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES

 

Application by The Australasian Meat Industry Employees' Union, New South Wales Branch, Industrial Organisation of Employees.

 

(No. IRC 1270 of 2008)

 

 

VARIATION

 

1.        Delete clause 5, Arbitrated Safety Net Adjustment of the award published 2 May 2008 (365 I.G. 701) and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

5.  Arbitrated Safety Net Adjustment

 

State Wage Case Adjustment

 

The rates of pay in this award include the adjustments payable under the State Wage 2008.  These adjustments may be offset against:

 

(i)       any equivalent overaward payments, and/or

 

(ii)       award wage increases since 29 May 1991 other than safety net, State Wage Case, and minimum rates adjustments.

 

2.        Delete Part B, Monetary Rates, and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

PART B

 

MONETARY RATES

 

Table 1 - Wage Rates

 

		SWC 2008
		eff. 1 Dec. 08
		Amount Per Week
		$
1	First curer	572.10
2	Second curer	562.75
3	Backer down or chopper down	562.75
4	Boner and trimmer(including tunnel boning)	562.75
5	Pickle pumper (arterial or stab)	556.50
6	First man - cutting up	556.50
7	Packer - ham canning	552.70
8	First man - washing, smoking and drying	560.55
9	Bacon boner	558.35
10	Cutter up	553.70
11	Tally and despatch hand	552.70
12	Cooker and lardman	552.70
13	Closing machine operator	552.70

 

14	Solderer	552.70
15	Bacon curer’s labourer - doing salting	552.70
16	Smokehouse labourer	552.70
17	Labourer	552.70

 

Table 2 - Other Rates and Allowances

 

Item No.	Clause No	Explanation	SWC 2008
			eff. 1 Dec. 08
			Amount
			$
1	3(v)	Meal Allowance	10.50
2	4(v)	Leading Hand allowance
		In charge of more than two but not
		more than ten employees	11.26
		In charge of more than ten employees	19.51
3	7(i)	Working in cold temperatures per hour
		or part thereof	0.38
4	2(iv)(b)	Supply of special clothing, knives and
		accessories
		(i) per week	5.79
		(ii) per day	1.15
		(iii) per week	3.47
		(iv) per day	0.69

 

3.        This variation shall take effect from the first full pay period to commence on or after 1 December 2008.

 

 

 

I. TABBAA, Commissioner

 

 

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