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T6325 and T6404

 

TASMANIAN INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION

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

Australian Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union
- Tasmanian Branch

(T6404 of 1996)

The Australian Workers' Union, Tasmania Branch
(T6325 of 1996)

OPTICAL INDUSTRIES AWARD

 

COMMISSIONER R J WATLING

HOBART, 30 August 1996

Award variation - wage rates - third $8.00 Safety Net Adjustment - work-related allowances - consent matter - application granted - award varied - operative date ffpp 28 August 1996

REASONS FOR DECISION

These applications, as amended, were lodged for the purpose of varying the Optical Industries Award by increasing the wage rates to reflect the third $8 Safety Net Adjustment and work-related allowances arising out of the State Wage Case decision (T Nos. 6284 and 6305 of 1996) which was handed down on 24 July 1996.

The amended applications came before the Commission as consent matters. The award sought to be varied 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 award be operative from the first full pay period to commence on or after 28 August 1996.

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

    (i) Consistent award 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.

The submissions presented by the parties in this matter conform with the requirements of the Wage Fixing Principles and the public interest requirements of s.36 of the Act.

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

 

R J Watling
COMMISSIONER

Appearances:
Mrs H Dowd for the Australian Municipal, Administrative, Clerical and Services Union
Mr G Cooper for The Australian Workers' Union, Tasmania Branch
Mr S Gates with Ms J Thomas for the Tasmanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Limited

Date and place of hearing:
1996
August 27
Hobart