TASMANIAN INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION

Industrial Relations Act 1984
s.23 application to vary an award

Australian Municipal, Administrative, Clerical and Services Union
(T.4908 of 1994)

PRINTERS AWARD

Wage rates - State Wage Case December 1993 - arbitrated safety net adjustment

This was an application by the Australian Municipal, Administrative, Clerical and Services Union (the Union) for the $8 arbitrated safety net adjustment, determined by a full bench of the Commission in the State Wage decision dated 24 December 19931 to be implemented in the Printers Award (the Award).

The Union produced a draft order and in seeking the increase confirmed that the restructuring of the Award had commenced. To date there had been no movement towards enterprise bargaining.

The Printing and Allied Trades Employers' Federation of Australia, Tasmanian Region and the Tasmanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Limited both consented to the application.

I am satisfied that the application is not against the guidelines of the Commission, nor the provisions of the Act. The Award will be amended as sought, operative from the first full pay period from the date of this decision.

An order is attached.

P A Imlach
COMMISSIONER

Appearances:
H. Dowd for the Australian Municipal, Administrative, Clerical and Services Union.
J. Hargrave for The Printing and Allied Trades Employers' Federation of Australia, Tasmanian Region.
S. Clues for the Tasmanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Limited.

Date and place of hearing:
1994.
Hobart:
February 24.

1 T4692 of 1993