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TASMANIAN INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION Industrial Relations Act 1984 Shop Distributive and Allied Employees Association, PHOTOGRAPHIC INDUSTRY AWARD
Award variation - wage rates - third $8.00 Safety Net Adjustment - allowances - consent matter - application granted - award varied - operative date ffpp 21 August 1996 REASONS FOR DECISION This application, as amended, was lodged for the purpose of varying the Photographic Industry 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 application came before the Commission as a consent matter. 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 should be operative from the first full pay period to commence on or after 21 August 1996. I am satisfied that all 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.
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