TASMANIAN INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION

Industrial Relations Act 1984
s.29 application for hearing of an industrial dispute

Steven John Matthewson
(T10165 of 2002)

and

The Minister Administering the Tasmanian State Service Act
(Egg Marketing Board)

DIRECTIONS

On 26 April 2002, Steven John Matthewson (the applicant), applied to the President, pursuant to s.29(1A) of the Industrial Relations Act 1984, for a hearing before a Commissioner in respect of an industrial dispute with The Egg Marketing Board Tasmania (represented by Mr John di Falco, Dep't of Primary Industry Water and Environment, Fax No: 6233 3038 (the respondent) arising out of severance pay in respect of termination of employment as a result of redundancy, the breach of a registered agreement and a dispute over the entitlement to long service leave.

A hearing is to commence at `Lyndhurst', 448 Elizabeth Street, North Hobart, Tasmania on Wednesday 26 June 2002 at 10.30 am.

Section 29(1E) of the Industrial Relations Act 1984, as amended, provides:

"(1E) At any time before setting a date for a hearing, or before the date of the hearing, the Commission, of its own motion or at the request of a party to the dispute, may require the applicant to provide further and better particulars of -

(a) the nature and circumstances of the dispute; and

(b) the nature of the claim; and

(c) the remedy sought -

if the Commission considers it necessary to ensure that the Commission and the parties to the dispute are properly informed."

By faxed letter dated 12 June 2002, Mr C Willingham, Director of Industrial Relations, for the respondent, requested further and better particulars regarding this application.

The applicant is directed, with respect to (a) the amount of wage that should have been paid, (b) the superannuation entitlement that has accrued and (c) the long service leave and redundancy payment entitlements to which the applicant claims to have been entitled, to provide the respondent employer and the Commission, by 5.00 pm on Monday 24 June 2002, with:

• the basis upon which his claims are founded

• information relating to the actual amounts claimed to have been underpaid

• and the calculations showing how those amounts were arrived at.

P C Shelley
COMMISSIONER