AN150029 – Carpenters & Joiners (General) Award 1993
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8.1 "Assembler A" means an employee who in manufacturing any article is:
(a) wholly engaged in assembling prepared pieces of timber or other material (which is dressed, morticed, tenoned or otherwise prepared by machining) by cramping, nailing, screwing, gluing or fastening in any way.
(b) not responsible for the dimensions of the article other than by checking with gauges or other measuring instruments but may be required to trim, dress and/or sand such prepared articles (excepting the fitting of joints) in accordance with instructions given by a tradesperson.
8.2 "Assembler B" means an employee engaged exclusively on repetitive assembly of joinery components on any automatic, semi-automatic or single purpose machine and
whose work may include:
(a) the repetitive assembling of component parts of any article in predetermined positions in which no fitting or adjustment is required.
(b) the attachment of accessories, such as window fasteners, casement stays or balances, to articles in predetermined prepared positions provided that no such employee shall be responsible for the setting up of machinery or the dimension of the products.
8.3 "Carpenter or Joiner" means an employee engaged upon work ordinarily performed by carpenters or joiners in any workshop, establishment or yard. Such work may include:
(a) Work in connection with prefabricated units;
(b) Shopfitting;
(c) The stripping of form work shutters or boxing;
(d) The erection of curtain walling, cladding or roofing with galvanised iron or other types of sheet metal or any other materials which superseded the materials usually fixed by carpenters and joiners as roofing and cladding.
(e) The erection of suspended ceilings except where wet plaster is used;
(f) The erection of metal windows or doors provided that;
(i) the drawing or shaping of metal is not required in respect of (d), (e) and (f) hereof, and
(ii) nothing in this definition shall be construed as giving
a carpenter an exclusive right to the work specified in (d), (e)
and (f) hereof.
8.4 "Casual Employees" means an employee who is engaged and paid as such.
8.5 "Commission" means the Industrial Commission of South
Australia.
8.6 "Confined Space" means a place the dimensions or nature of which necessitate working in a cramped position or without sufficient ventilation.
8.7 "Construction Work" means all work performed under the Building Trades (S.A.) Construction Award in connection with the erection, repair, renovation, maintenance, ornamentation or demolition of buildings or structures, including the making, assembling or fixing of woodwork and fittings in connection therewith, the making, preparing, assembling and fixing of any material necessitating the use of tradesmen's tools or machines; and the prefabricating of a building in an open yard.
For the purpose of this definition `maintenance' is confined to tradesmen employed by building and construction industry employers.
8.8 "Employee" means a person employed under the terms and conditions of this Award.
8.9 "Joiner Setter Out" means a tradesperson joiner engaged in interpreting working drawings or plans, computing quantities, selecting materials and marking out components required for manufacture to a specific design.
8.10 "Joinery Shop" means any establishment wherein joinery work is performed, provided such establishment is not located on an `on-site' construction project or within a mixed industry (as defined).
8.11 "Joinery Work" means all work performed in a joinery shop (as defined) of the classifications contained in this Award, and includes the preparation, decoration and assembling of joinery or building components in timber or other recognised building and joinery material in the shop, factory or yard. All work performed "on-site" on a construction project by an employee who is principally employed in a joinery shop.
8.12 "Leading Hand" means an employee responsible for directing and/or supervising the work of other persons.
8.13 "Maintenance" means small carpentry, repair and renovation work carried out by a carpenter employed in an enterprise that is not connected with the building industry.
8.14 "Mixed Industry" means an employer's enterprise for the purpose of the production, treatment, distribution or provision of articles, goods, merchandise and materials not mainly attributed to or mainly dependent on the work performed by employees covered by this award. Provided that this definition shall not extend to the employees engaged on construction work (as defined). For the purposes of this provision, `enterprise' means any factory, depot, premises or other place of the employer at which employees normally report for work or for the location of work or from which work is normally allocated to employees. Provided that any one or more such factories, depots, premises or other places of the employer in the same immediate vicinity shall be counted as one establishment. Further for the purposes of this provision, `employees' shall mean all employees in any capacity excepting administrative, sales and clerical employees.
8.15 "Operator of Explosive-Powered Tools" means an employee qualified in accordance with the laws and regulation of the State to operate explosive-powered tools.
8.16 "Setter Out" means a tradesperson joiner engaged in interpreting working drawings or plans, computing quantities, selecting materials and marking out components required for manufacture to a specific design.
8.17 "Shopfitting" means the manufacture, installation, alteration, and/or repair of shop-fronts, show-cases, partitions involving wrap around glazing, partitions (including the insertion of glass panels where the glass is 6.35 millimetres or less in thickness by beads or moulds or other dry glazing methods), exhibitor's stands, and interior fittings and fixtures in or on buildings, other than small carpentry repair and renovation work carried out by a carpenter or joiner employed in a mixed industry (as defined).
8.18 "Shop work" or "Factory work" means any work performed in a workshop or factory or yard not located as an on site construction project.
8.19 "The Act" means the Industrial and Employee Relations Act 1994 as it may be amended from time to time.
8.20 "Union" means the organisations set out in sub-clause 7.1 of this Award.
