Crown Employees (Department of Industry, Skills and
Regional Development) Geoscientists Award
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES
Review of Award pursuant to Section 19 of the Industrial
Relations Act 1996.
(No. IRC 734 of 2015)
Before Commissioner Stanton
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28 October 2015
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REVIEWED
AWARD
PART A
Clause No. Subject
Matter
1. Title
2. Definitions
3. Parties
to the Award
4. Salaries
5. Progression
of Staff
6. Anti-Discrimination
7. Area, Incidence
and Duration
PART B
MONETARY RATES
Table 1 - Salaries
PART A
1. Title
This award shall be known as the Crown Employees
(Department of Industry, Skills and Regional Development) Geoscientists Award.
2. Definitions
(a) "Association"
means the Public Service Association and Professional Officers’ Association
Amalgamated Union of New South Wales.
(b) “Department”
means the Department of Industry, Skills and Regional Development, as specified
in Schedule 1, Part 1 of the Government
Sector Employment Act 2013.
(c) "Geoscientist"
means a staff member who has obtained an Earth Science degree or equivalent
requiring a minimum of three years full-time study at a recognised university
or tertiary institution, with a major in a Geoscience discipline.
(d) “Industrial Relations Secretary” means
the Secretary of the Treasury, as established under the Government Sector Employment Act 2013.
(e) “Secretary”
means the Secretary of the Department of Industry, Skills and Regional
Development.
(f) "Service"
means continuous service.
(g) "Staff
member" means and includes all persons assigned to an ongoing full time,
ongoing part time or
temporary role under the provisions of the Government
Sector Employment Act 2013.
3. Parties to the
Award
The parties to this award are the Industrial Relations
Secretary and the Association.
4. Salaries
The rates of salary shall be paid to staff members assigned to the roles specified as set out in Table 1 -
Salaries, of Part B, Monetary Rates.
5. Progression of
Staff
Progression of staff members from Grade I to Grade II in this award
will be subject to:
(a) completion of 12 months satisfactory service on the maximum
salary for Grade I; and
(b) the staff member having demonstrated a capacity to undertake
geo-scientific investigations involving a degree of originality and
independence or to perform work of an equivalent importance or value.
The promotion of staff members beyond Geoscientist
Grade II will be subject to the occurrence of a vacancy, a comparative
assessment.
6. Anti-Discrimination
(1) It is the
intention of the parties bound by this award to seek to achieve the object in
section 3(f) of the Industrial Relations Act 1996 to prevent and
eliminate discrimination in the workplace.
This includes discrimination on the grounds of race, sex, marital
status, disability, homosexuality, transgender identity and age and
responsibilities as a carer.
(2) It follows
that in fulfilling their obligations under the dispute resolution procedure prescribed
by this award the parties have obligations to take all reasonable steps to
ensure that the operation of the provisions of this award are not directly or
indirectly discriminatory in their effects.
It will be consistent with the fulfilment of these obligations for the
parties to make application to vary any provision of the award which, by its
terms or operation, has a direct or indirect discriminatory effect.
(3) Under the Anti-Discrimination
Act 1977, it is unlawful to victimise an employee because the employee has
made or may make or has been involved in a complaint of unlawful discrimination
or harassment.
(4) Nothing in
this clause is to be taken to affect:
(a) any conduct or act which is specifically exempted from
anti-discrimination legislation;
(b) offering or providing junior rates of pay to persons under
21 years of age;
(c) any act or practice of a body established to propagate
religion which is exempted under section 56(d) of the Anti-Discrimination
Act 1977;
(d) a party to this award from pursuing matters of unlawful
discrimination in any State or Federal jurisdiction.
(5) This clause
does not create legal rights or obligations in addition to those imposed upon
the parties by legislation referred to in this clause.
(a) Employers and
employees may also be subject to Commonwealth anti-discrimination legislation.
(b) Section 56(d)
of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 provides:
"Nothing in this Act affects any other act or
practice of a body established to propagate religion that conforms to the
doctrines of that religion or is necessary to avoid injury to the religious
susceptibilities of the adherents of that religion".
7. Area, Incidence and
Duration
(a) This award
shall apply to all
staff members employed by
the Department of Industry, Skills and Regional Development as defined in
clause 2, Definitions, of this Award.
(b) Staff members
are entitled to the conditions of employment provided by this Award and by the
provisions in the following:
Government Sector Employment Act 2013;
Government Sector
Employment Regulation 2014;
Government Sector Employment Rules 2014
Crown Employees (Public Service Conditions of
Employment) Reviewed Award 2009
Crown Employees (Public Sector - Salaries 2015) Award;
or
any replacement award, except
where specifically varied by this award.
(c) The changes
made to the award pursuant to the Award Review pursuant to section 19(6) of the
Industrial Relations Act 1996 and Principle 26 of the Principles for
Review of Awards made by the Industrial Relations Commission of the New South
Wales on 28 April 1999 (310 I.G. 359) take effect on and from 28 October 2015.
(d) This award
remains in force until varied or rescinded, the period for which it was made
having already expired.
PART B
MONETARY RATES
Table 1 - Salaries
The salaries set out below, shall apply from the
beginning of the first pay period on or after 1 July 2015, in accordance with
the provisions of the Crown Employees (Public Sector – Salaries 2015) Award be
paid to staff members assigned to the roles specified.
Classification and
Grades
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Common Salary Point
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Per annum
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First full pay
period
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on or after 1 July
|
|
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2015
|
|
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(2.5% increase)
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|
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$
|
Geoscientists
|
|
|
Grade I
|
|
|
1st year of service
|
47
|
59,302
|
2nd year of service
|
51
|
61,471
|
3rd year of service
|
57
|
64,967
|
4th year of service
|
64
|
69,696
|
5th year of service
|
71
|
74,656
|
6th year of service and thereafter
|
77
|
78,971
|
Grade II
|
|
|
1st year of service
|
82
|
83,022
|
2nd year of service
|
85
|
85,455
|
3rd year of service
|
89
|
88,900
|
4th year of service and thereafter
|
94
|
93,440
|
Senior
|
|
|
1st year of service
|
97
|
96,373
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2nd year of service
|
99
|
98,361
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3rd year of service
|
102
|
101,290
|
4th year of service and thereafter
|
105
|
104,200
|
Principal
|
|
|
1st year of service
|
111
|
110,560
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2nd year of service and thereafter
|
114
|
113,787
|
Assistant Director, Geological Survey
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|
|
1st year of service
|
119
|
119,657
|
2nd year of service
|
124
|
125,773
|
3rd year of service and thereafter
|
128
|
131,247
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J. D. STANTON, Commissioner
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Printed by the authority of the Industrial Registrar.