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 1105 of 2008)
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Before Commissioner
Cambridge
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3 September 2008
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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 2008
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Total Rate Eff
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10/07/07
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05/08/08
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$
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%
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$
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Classification
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Shop Hand
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618.30
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4%
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643.00
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Caster
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532.90
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4%
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554.20
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Mechanical Cornice
Attendant
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& Operator
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531.40
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4% + 0.05
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552.70
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Cornice Machine
Attendant
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531.40
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4% + 0.05
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552.70
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All Others
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531.40
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4% + 0.05
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552.70
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Tool Allowances
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$
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Shop Hand
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3.40
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Caster
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1.40
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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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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 $16.70 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 $21.10 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 $29.70 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 2008.
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 5 August 2008.
I.
W. CAMBRIDGE, Commissioner
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Printed by
the authority of the Industrial Registrar.