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Butchers' Wholesale (Newcastle and Northern) Award
  
Date10/30/2009
Volume369
Part2
Page No.405
DescriptionVSW - Variation following State Wage Case
Publication No.C7219
CategoryAward
Award Code 074  
Date Posted10/29/2009

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Butchers' Wholesale (Newcastle and Northern) 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 1295 of 2009)

 

Before Commissioner Macdonald

17 September 2009

 

VARIATION

 

1.        Delete subclause 27.3 of clause 27, Wages, of the award published 2 March 2001 (322 I.G. 727) and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

27.3    Arbitrated Safety Net Adjustment

 

27.3.1 The rates of pay in this award include the adjustments payable under the State Wage Case 2009. These adjustments may be offset against;

 

(a)      any equivalent over award payments, and/or;

 

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

 

2.        Delete Appendix 1 - Wages, and Appendix 2 - Other Rates and Allowances, of Part 9, Appendix, and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

T1.1    The minimum rate of pay for 40 ordinary hours of any classification shall be as follows:

 

 

Total Weekly Classification

Total Weekly Rate

 

 

$

1

Slaughterperson

629.20

2

Employee Grading beef carcases

590.80

3

Employee weighing and/or recording

584.60

4

Knocker down and/or shackler and/or employee opening up neck and

 

 

tying weasand before hoisting to bleeding rail

588.00

5

Slaughterhouse labourer whose work includes trimming carcases after

 

 

slaughter persons, skinning heads, removing eyes, removing horns,

 

 

removing tongues and/or cheeks, removing brains and boning for pet

 

 

foods and boning heads and crutching sheep

584.60

6

Employee skinning feet and taking out sinews

583.50

7

Tripe persons and employee cutting, turning and washing tripes and

 

 

cutting and washing bibles

583.50

8

Slaughterhouse Labourer

578.80

9

Laundry Attendant

578.80

10

Stockperson (working under conditions of the stock person clause)

585.40

11

Stockperson, stock receiver and penner-up

581.10

12

Yard person and general labourer

574.00

13

Freezer room employee

583.50

14

Dripping and/or lard operator, tallow person, digester person and/or dry

 

 

melter operator, expeller and/or dryer attendant

586.50

15

Mill hand, by-products labourers and save-all attendant

576.50

 

Casing Cleaning Department

 

16

All-round person

588.30

17

Employee trimming and sliming bungs and bladders and sliming runners

581.10

 

Boning Department

 

18

Boner

606.20

19

Slicer and/or sawyer

591.70

20

Trimmer

584.60

21

Weigh person

580.90

22

Packer, strapper, wiring and/or gluing machine operator

578.80

23

Shop person/butcher

613.80

 

Motor Wagon Drivers

 

24

Motor wagon driver of a vehicle with carrying capacity of up to 3,048 kg

 

 

(3 tons)

585.50

 

For each additional 1,016 kg (1 ton) or part thereof up to 8,128 kg (8 tons)

 

 

extra

1.99

 

 

 

 

For each additional 1,016 kg (1 ton) or part thereof exceeding 8,128

1.55

 

(8 tons) but not exceeding 12,192 kg (12 tons) extra

 

 

 

 

 

For each additional 1,016 kg (1 ton) or part thereof exceeding 12,192 kg

 

 

(12 tons) when a trailer is attached to a motor wagon, the carrying

1.24

 

capacity of such trailer shall be computed with the rate in determining the

 

 

driver’s wages

 

25

Driver of tractor under 50 h.p. or forklift driver

585.50

26

Driver of bulldozer

585.50

27

Loader

594.60

28

Cleaner - cleaning production plant and equipment (working under shift

 

 

work provisions)

584.60

 

T1.2    The minimum rate of pay for 40 ordinary hours for juniors shall be as follows:

 

Age

Percentage of Classification 12-General Labourer

Total Weekly Rate

 

 

$

At 15 years of age

36%

206.60

At 16 years of age

48%

275.50

At 17 years of age

60%

344.40

At 18 years of age

74%

424.80

At 19 years of age

87%

499.40

At 20 years of age

Adult rates

 

 

Upon any adjustment, junior rates to be calculated to the nearest ten cents.

 

APPENDIX 2

 

Other Rates and Allowances

 

T2.1    Other rates and allowances - Subject to the provisions of the relevant clauses, allowances and special rates are as follows:

 

Item No.

Clause No.

Brief Description

Amount

 

 

 

$

1

31.4

Alternating Shifts - per shift

9.93

2

31.5

Afternoon Shift - per shift

14.27

3

32.9.1

Extraordinary Hours Allowance per day

8.57

4

35.5

Horse Allowance - per week

16.15

5

33.3

Meal Money - per meal

9.75

6

29.1

Temperature Allowance - per hour

 

 

 

Below minus 1 degree celsius

0.50

 

 

Below minus 16 degree celsius

0.80

 

 

Below minus 20 degree celsius

1.48

 

 

Below minus 26 degree celsius

2.21

7

29.2

Freezing Room Allowance - per hour

0.54

8

29.4

Temperature Allowance - per hour

0.54

 

 

 

0.86

9

10.1

Rovers Allowance - per day

3.32

10

20.1.2

Bull Penalty - per head

3.32

11

23.1

Dog Allowance - per dog per week

8.33

12

23.3

First Aid Attendant - per day

3.98

13

23.4

Leading Hand - per week

29.77

14

23.5.1

Pedestrian Stacker - Cold Temperature - per week

15.36

15

23.5.2

Pedestrian Stacker - per week

11.35

16

23.5.3

Fork Lift - per week

7.99

17

17.1.1

Objectionable Work - Ordinary Hours

3.67

18

17.1.2

Objectionable Work - Outside Ordinary Hours per sheep,

 

 

 

calf or pig

4.29

 

 

per head of cattle

18.23

19

17.1.3

Objectionable Work - on Sundays and Public Holidays - per

 

 

 

sheep, calf or pig

6.57

 

 

per head of cattle

26.40

20

17.1.4

Condemned Carcass Allowance - per day

3.67

21

17.1.5

Brucella Reactor - per day

8.30

22

17.1.6

Work in Artificially Increased Temperature - per hour

0.50

23

17.1.7

Foetal Blood Extraction Allowance - per day

8.30

24

13.4

TP Slaughtering Allowance - all type of Animals

 

 

 

per day

5.41

 

 

per half day

2.71

25

13.5

TP Slaughtering Allowance - two types of animals

 

 

 

per day

4.63

 

 

per half day

2.22

26

13.6

TP Slaughtering Allowance - one type of animal

 

 

 

per day

3.32

 

 

per half day

1.61

27

51.2

Knife Allowance -

 

 

 

Slaughterpersons, boners and labourers skinning cattle,

 

 

 

heads and feet -

 

 

 

per week

3.87

 

 

per day

0.76

 

 

Other employees using a knife -

 

 

 

per week

2.78

 

 

per day

0.51

28

49.1(a)

Clothes Allowance - per day

1.64

29

49.1(b)

Laundry Allowance - per day

1.34

30

49.1(c)

Clothes Allowance - per day

0.43

31

49.3

Clothes/Laundry Allowance -

 

 

 

(Employees not covered by Items 28-30 of this Appendix)

 

 

(a)

Clothes Allowance - per day

0.80

 

(b)

Laundry Allowance - per day

0.64

 

(c)

Clothes Allowance - per day

0.19

32

46.5(b)

TP Boner Allowance

1.87

 

3.        This variation shall come into effect from the first full pay period on or after 22 November 2009.

 

 

 

 

A. MACDONALD, Commissioner

 

 

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Printed by the authority of the Industrial Registrar.

 

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