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T2179 - 11 January

 

IN THE TASMANIAN INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION

Industrial Relations Act 1984

 

T2179 of 1989

IN THE MATTER OF AN APPLICATION BY THE FEDERATED CLERKS UNION OF AUSTRALIA, TASMANIAN BRANCH TO VARY THE INSURANCE AWARD

   
 

RE: TRAINEESHIPS

   

COMMISSIONER P A IMLACH

HOBART, 11 January 1990

 

REASONS FOR DECISION

 

APPEARANCES:

 

For the Federated Clerks Union
of Australia, Tasmanian Branch

- Mr A Grubb

 

For the Tasmanian Confederation
of Industries

- Mr. T. Edwards

 

DATE AND PLACE OF HEARING:

 

20 December 1989   Hobart

 

This application is for a "traineeships" provision to be put into the Insurance Award.

A "traineeship", according to the definition proposed, means a system under the Australian Traineeship Scheme comprising structured, on-the-job training with an employer and off-the-job training in a Technical and Further Education College or other training approved by the Training Authority of Tasmania: this is a reasonable explanation. The system is aimed at providing young people, who would not otherwise have the opportunity, with access to some basic work training at the commencement of their working career.

For all practical purposes the terms of the award addition sought are the same as traineeship provisions put into some other awards of this Commission in recent times (e.g. T.2092 and T.2096 of 1989).

Mr Grubb, for the Federated Clerks Union of Australia, Tasmanian Branch (FCU), spoke in support of his union's application for the traineeships provisions in the Award and Mr Edwards of the Tasmanian Confederation of Industries (TCI), expressed agreement and support for the proposed amendment.

For the record, Mr Grubb said that the FCU did not agree with the overtime provisions in the proposals, as a matter of principle, although he did not wish to nullify the whole arrangement as a result. The FCU considers that when a trainee works overtime the appropriate full award rate of pay for the relevant classification should be the basis of pay calculations. Mr Edwards refuted the FCU position and said that the TCI policy is for any overtime to be paid at the trainee wage rate.

Both advocates sought the date of decision as the operative date.

The Award will be amended in the terms sought and agreed, operative from 11 January 1989.

An order reflecting this decision is attached.

 

PA Imlach
COMMISSIONER