T5696
TASMANIAN INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION Industrial Relations Act 1984 Australian Education Union, Tasmanian Branch GENERAL CONDITIONS OF SERVICE AWARD
Award variation - kilometreage allowances - consent matter - award varied - operative ffpp 9.8.95 REASONS FOR DECISION This was an application to adjust the kilometreage allowance rates contained in Clause 8, Allowances of the General Conditions of Service Award to reflect movement in the costs of private motoring over the six months to 31 March 1995. The applicant organisation, the Australian Education Union, Tasmanian Branch (AEU) submitted that, using the formula determined by a Full Bench of this Commission in T.33 of 1985, the rates set out in Clause 8, P. Travelling, paragraph 2 Kilometreage Allowance, should be varied in the following manner:
Mr Hunt for the AEU submitted that the Wage Fixing Principles of the Commission provided for such an adjustment to the rates and cited the Allowances Principle at 9.1.1:
He said the public interest would not be offended by the increases to the allowances and he asked that the operative date of any order resulting from the matter be the first full pay period to commence on or after the date of the Commission's decision. On behalf of the Minister for Public Sector Management, Ms Lawrence informed the Commission of the Minister's consent to the application. Given the level of agreement reached on the method of calculating the increases to these allowances and the agreed view that they conform with the Wage Fixing Principles and are in the public interest, the application as amended is approved. The operative date to be the first full pay period to commence on or after 9 August 1995. The order dealing with this matter and other expense related allowances, the subject of Matter T5696 of 1995, will issue this day.
F D Westwood Appearances: Date and place of hearing:
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