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T6314, T6353, T6354, T6388 etc

 

TASMANIAN INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION

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

The Australian Workers' Union, Tasmania Branch
(T6314 of 1996)

Australian Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union
- Tasmanian Branch

(T6353 and T6354 of 1996)

Australian Municipal, Administrative, Clerical and Services Union
(T6388, T6391, 6395 and T6406 of 1996)

National Union of Workers, Tasmanian Branch
(T6342 of 1996)

Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Association, Tasmanian Branch
(T6377 and T6379 of 1996)

BAKERS AWARD
INSURANCE AWARD
SOFTGOODS AWARD
WHOLESALE PLANT BAKERIES AWARD
WHOLESALE TRADES AWARD

 

COMMISSIONER R J WATLING

HOBART, 15 August 1996

Award variation - wage rates - third $8.00 Safety Net Adjustment - consent matter - application granted - award varied - operative date ffpp 14 August 1996

REASONS FOR DECISION

These applications were lodged for the purpose of varying the above awards to reflect the third $8 Safety Net Adjustment arising out of the State Wage Case decision (T Nos. 6284 and 6305 of 1996) handed down by the Tasmanian Industrial Commission on 24 July 1996.

All the applications came before the Commission as consent matters. The awards sought to be varied, in all cases, reflected the first and second $8 per week Safety Net Adjustment and more than 12 months had elapsed between the second and third level Safety Net Adjustment.

The parties also agreed that the increases in the respective awards should be operative from the first full pay period to commence on or after 14 August 1996.

I am satisfied that all the registered employee organisations with an interest in the respective awards have given a commitment to review the awards in the context of:

(i) Consistent awards formatting;

(ii) Removal of discriminatory provisions;

(ii) Removal of obsolete or amendment of inaccurate award provisions;

(iv) Update Clause 6 - Parties and Persons Bound;

(v) Rewrite the award in plain English;

(vi) The appropriate use of flexibility provisions;

(vii) The inclusion of an appropriate enterprise flexibility clause.

During the course of hearing application T.6406 of 1996 the parties amended the application to include the previously mentioned matter, and also to make a minor variation to Clause 21 - Parental Leave to correct a cross-reference error.

The submissions presented by the parties, in respect of all applications, conform with the requirements of the Wage Fixing Principles and the public interest requirements of s.36 of the Act.

Therefore the awards will be varied in the manner sought by the parties, including the operative date, and I decide accordingly. The Orders giving effect to this decision are attached.

 

R J Watling
COMMISSIONER

Appearances:
Mr P Noonan for the Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Association, Tasmanian Branch
Mrs H Dowd for the Australian Municipal, Administrative, Clerical and Services Union
Ms M O'Byrne for the Australian Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union - Tasmanian Branch
Mr J Long for The Australian Workers' Union, Tasmania Branch
Mr G Cooper for the National Union of Workers, Tasmanian Branch

Date and place of hearing:
1996
August 14
Hobart