TASMANIAN INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION

Industrial Relations Act 1984
s.23 application for award or variation of award

Federated Clerks Union of Australia
Tasmanian Branch
(T.4178 of 1992)

PUBLIC VEHICLES AWARD

Award variation - second minimum rates adjustment - Division C - Clerks - Public Vehicles Award

REASONS FOR DECISION

This application by the Federated Clerks Union of Australia, Tasmanian Branch (the union) sought insertion of the second minimum rates adjustment in Division C - Clerks, of Clause 8 of the Public Vehicles Award in accordance with the agreed procedure adopted in Commissioner Imlach's decision of 19 May 19921. Adjustments were to be effected at 9-monthly intervals, the second (the subject of this application) to be operative from the first full pay period commencing on or after 13 February 1993.

Mr Fry, representing the union, informed the Commission that the application was required in order to comply with the Commission's Wage Fixing Principle in respect of minimum rates adjustments. He tendered a draft order setting out the new rates of pay and citing the aforementioned date of operation.

Mr. Clues, for the Tasmanian Confederation of Industries, submitted that the parties had had discussions in relation to the minimum rates adjustment processes and the Confederation consented to the draft order presented to the Commission and the operative date. He indicated that the rates proposed did not offend the public interest, and complied with the Commission's wage fixing principles.

In the circumstances the application is approved in the terms sought and the appropriate order is attached.

F.D. Westwood
PRESIDENT

Appearances:
Mr D. J. Fry for the Federated Clerks Union of Australia, Tasmanian Branch
Mr S. Clues for the Tasmanian Confederation of Industries

Date and place of hearing:
1993
January 15
Hobart

1 T.3770 of 1992