T2025, T2069, T2076, T2090 and T2104

IN THE TASMANIAN INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION

Industrial Relations Act 1984


T2025, 2069, 2076, 2090 & 2104 of 1989	IN THE MATTER OF APPLICATIONS BY THE AUSTRALIAN BUILDING CONSTRUCTION EMPLOYEES' AND BUILDERS LABOURERS' FEDERATION, TASMANIAN BRANCH; THE BUILDING WORKERS' INDUSTRIAL UNION OF AUSTRALIA (TASMANIAN BRANCH); THE AMALGAMATED SOCIETY OF CARPENTERS AND JOINERS OF AUSTRALIA, TASMANIAN BRANCH; THE OPERATIVE PAINTERS AND DECORATORS' UNION OF AUSTRALIA, TASMANIA BRANCH AND THE PLUMBERS & GASFITTERS EMPLOYEES' UNION OF AUSTRALIA, TASMANIAN BRANCH TO VARY THE BUILDING TRADES AWARD

	RE: COST RELATED ALLOWANCES

COMMISSIONER R. J. WATLING	HOBART, 31 August 1989

REASONS FOR DECISION

APPEARANCES:

For the Australian Building Construction Employees' and Builders Labourers' Federation, Tasmanian Branch	- Mr. J. Bacon

For the Building Workers' Industrial Union of Australia (Tasmanian Branch)	- Mr R. Fuller

For the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners of Australia, Tasmanian Branch	- Mr. M. Dowd

For the Operative Painters and Decorators' Union of Australia, Tasmanian Branch	- Mr. W. Thompson

For the Plumbers and Gasfitters Employees' Union of Australia, Tasmanian Branch	- Mr. R. Hevey

For the Master Builders' Association of Tasmania	- Mr. A. Lenthall

For the Tasmanian Confederation of Industries and	- Mr. T. Edwards

DATE AND PLACE OF HEARING:

17 August 1989 Hobart

These applications made by the respective unions sought to increase the following expense related allowances in Divisions A, B, C and F of the Building Trades Award.

Those allowances are:

. Fares and Travelling

. Tool Allowance

. Meal Allowance

. Living Away From Home - Distant Work

. Camping Allowance

The figures used to support the applications to determine the quantum of the increase were:

Fares and Travelling - Australian Bureau of Statistics Consumer Price Index weighted average of Eight Capitals; Transportation; from the June quarter 1988 up to and including the March quarter 1989 (2.8%).

Tool Allowance - Australian Bureau of Statistics Consumer Price Index weighted average of Eight Capitals; from the June quarter 1988 up to and including the March quarter 1989 (5.03%).

Meal Allowance - Australian Bureau of Statistics Consumer Price Index weighted average of Eight Capitals; Food - Meals out and take away foods; from the June quarter 1988 up to and including the March quarter 1989 (5.63%).

Living Away From Home - Distant Work - Australian Bureau of Statistics Consumer Price Index weighted average of Eight Capitals; Holiday Accommodation in Australia; from the June quarter 1988 up to and including the March quarter 1989 (12.26%).

Camping Allowance - AWU Construction and Maintenance (Consolidated) Award 1987 - being an average of percentage increases in the Australian Bureau of Statistics Consumer Price Index - Food, Housing and Transportation Groups from the June quarter 1988 up to and including the March quarter 1989 (6.05%).

All parties to the award agreed that the applications should be endorsed by the Commission and they tendered a document (Exhibit F1) showing the effect of any successful applications.

The applications conform with the Wage Fixing Principles and in particular the Allowances Principle.

These allowances have, in the past, been varied in accordance with the previously-mentioned formulae. That being the case, the award will now be varied in the manner sought, with an operative date from the first full pay period to commence on or after 17 August 1989. Order

R. J. WATLING
COMMISSIONER

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