Butchers'
Wholesale (State) 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 1294 of 2009)
Before Commissioner
Macdonald
|
17 September 2009
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VARIATION
1. Delete
subclause 27.3, of clause 27, Wages, of the award published 25 January 2001
(321 I.G. 1167), and insert in lieu 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;
(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 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:
APPENDIX 1
Wages
T1.1 The minimum rate of
pay for 40 ordinary hours of any classification shall be as follows:
|
Total
Weekly Classification
|
Rate
|
|
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$
|
1
|
Slaughterperson
|
629.20
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2
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Employee grading beef carcases
|
590.80
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3
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Employee weighing and/or
recording
|
584.60
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4
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Knocker down and/or shackler
and/or employee opening up neck and tying
|
588.00
|
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weisand before hoisting to
bleeding rail
|
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5
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Slaughterhouse labourer whose
work includes trimming carcases after
|
584.60
|
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slaughterperson, skinning heads;
removing eyes, removing horns, removing
|
|
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tongues and/or cheeks,
removing brains and boning for pet foods and boning
|
|
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heads and crutching sheep
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|
6
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Employee skinning feet and
taking out sinews
|
583.50
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7
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Tripeperson and employee
cutting, turning and washing tripes and cutting and
|
583.50
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washing bibles
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8
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Slaughterperson labourer
|
578.80
|
9
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Laundry attendant
|
578.80
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10
|
Stockperson (working under conditions
of the stockperson clause)
|
585.40
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11
|
Stock person, stock receiver
and penner-up
|
581.10
|
12
|
Yard person and general
labourer
|
574.00
|
13
|
Freezer room employee
|
583.50
|
14
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Dripping and/or lard operator,
tallow person, digester person and/or dry melter
|
|
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operator, expellor and/or
dryer attendant
|
586.50
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15
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Mill hand, by-products
labourer and save-all attendant
|
576.50
|
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Casing
Cleaning Department
|
|
16
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All-round person
|
588.30
|
17
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Employee trimming and sliming
bungs and bladders and sliming runners
|
581.10
|
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Boning
Department
|
|
18
|
Boner
|
606.20
|
19
|
Slicer and/or sawyer
|
591.70
|
20
|
Trimmer
|
584.60
|
21
|
Weighperson
|
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
|
585.50
|
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(3 tons)
|
|
|
|
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For each additional 1,016 kg
(1 ton) or part thereof up to8,128 kg (8 tons) extra
|
1.99
|
|
|
|
|
|
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For each additional 1,016 kg
(1 ton) or part thereof exceeding 8,128 kg (8 tons)
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1.55
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but not exceeding 12;192 kg
(12 tons) extra
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|
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|
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For each additional 1,016 kg
(1 ton) or part thereof exceeding 12,192 kg
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|
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(12 tons) when a trailer is
attached to a motor wagon; the carrying capacity of
|
1.24
|
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such trailer shall be computed
with the rate in determining the drivers wages
|
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25
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Driver of a tractor under 50h.
or fork lift driver
|
585.50
|
26
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Driver of a bulldozer
|
585.50
|
27
|
Loader
|
594.60
|
28
|
Cleaner - cleaning production plant
and equipment (working under shift work
|
584.60
|
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provisions)
|
|
T1.2 The minimum rate
of pay for 40 ordinary hours for juniors shall be as follows:
Age
|
Percentage of
Classification
|
Amount
|
|
12 - General
Labourer
|
$
|
|
|
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At 15 years of age
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36%
|
206.60
|
At 16 years of age
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48%
|
275.50
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At 17 years of age
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60%
|
344.40
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At 18 years of age
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74%
|
424.80
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At 19 years of age
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87%
|
499.40
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At 20 years of age
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Adult rates
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Upon any adjustment, junior rates to be calculated to the
nearest ten cents
APPENDIX 2
Other Rates and Allowances
Other Rates and Allowances - Subject to the provisions of the
relevant clauses, allowances and special rates are as follows:
Item
No
|
Clause
No
|
Allowance
|
Amount
|
|
|
|
$
|
1
|
34.1
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Alternating Shifts - per shift
|
9.93
|
2
|
31.5
|
Afternoon Shift - per shift
|
14.27
|
3
|
32.9.1
|
Extraordinary Hours Allow - 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 degrees Celsius
|
0.80
|
|
|
Below minus 20 degrees Celsius
|
1.48
|
|
|
Below minus 26 degrees 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 do 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
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Objectionable work - ordinary hours
|
3.67
|
18
|
17.1.2
|
Objectionable work - outside ordinary hours
|
|
|
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per sheep, calf or pig
|
4.29
|
|
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Per head of cattle
|
18.23
|
19
|
17.1.3
|
Objectionable work - on Sundays; and public
|
|
|
|
holidays -
|
|
|
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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 -
|
|
|
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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
|
1.65
|
29
|
49.1
(b)
|
Laundry allowance - per day
|
1.34
|
30
|
49.1
(c)
|
Clothes allowance - per day
|
0.43
|
31
|
49.3
(a)
|
Clothes/laundry allowance (employees not covered
|
|
|
49.3
(b)
|
by Items 28-30 of the Appendix)
|
|
|
49.3
(c)
|
Clothes allowance - per day
|
0.80
|
|
|
Laundry allowance - per day
|
0.64
|
|
|
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 29 October 2009.
A.
MACDONALD, Commissioner
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Printed by
the authority of the Industrial Registrar.