Dairying Industry Employees (State) Award

 

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES

 

Application by The Australian Workers' Union, New South Wales, Industrial Organisation of Employees.

 

(No. IRC 67 of 2009)

 

 

VARIATION

 

1.        Delete subclause (f) of clause 3, Wages, of the award published 4 May 2001 (324. I.G. 474), and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

(f)       State Wage Case adjustment- The rates of pay in this award include the adjustments payable under the State Wage Case 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 subparagraphs (a) and (b) of paragraph (e) of subclause (g) Wages of clause 27, Training Wage, and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

Wage Rates for Certificate IV Traineeships

 

(a)      Trainees undertaking an AQF IV traineeship shall receive the relevant weekly wage rate for AQF III trainees at Industry/Skill Levels A,B, or C as applicable with the addition of 3.8 per cent of that wage rate.

 

(b)      An adult trainee who is undertaking a traineeship for an AQF IV qualification shall receive the following weekly wage as applicable based on the allocation of AQF III qualifications:

 

 

3.        Delete Table 4 - Training Wage Rates, of Part B, Monetary Rates, and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

Table 4 - Training Wage Rates - Industry/Skill Level C

 

(a)      The following Traineeships shall be paid in accordance with Table 4 below:

 

Rural Skills (Dairy Production) Certificate II

 

Rural Skills (Dairy Production) Certificate III

 

Rural Skills (Milk Harvesting) Certificate II

 

Rural Skills (Milk Harvesting) Certificate III

 

Where the accredited training course and work performed are for the purpose of generating skills which have been defined for work at Skill Level C.

 

 

The average proportion of time spent in structured training which has been taken into account in setting the above rates is 20 per cent.

 

Notation: - The parties to this award have agreed that the above rates shall be adjusted from time to time by the quantum of the increases awarded to Industry/Skill Level C rates in the National Training Wage Award 2000, as varied, or any successor industrial instrument.

 

(b)      See subparagraph (e) of subclause (g) of clause 27 Training Wage for trainees undertaking the following AQF IV traineeships: -

 

Rural Skills (Dairy Production) Certificate IV

 

Rural Skills (Milk Harvesting) Certificate IV

 

4.        This variation shall take effect from the first full pay period to commence on or after 20 February 2010.

 

 

 

D.W. RITCHIE, Commissioner

 

 

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