AN150029 – Carpenters & Joiners (General) Award 1993
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1. Apprentices
(a) Joinery Shops
(Percentage of $542.20 Per Week - Group 5 Tradesperson) First Year 50 271.10
Second Year 62 336.20
Third Year 75 406.70
Fourth Year 90 488.00
(b) Other than Joinery Shops
(Percentage of $542.20 Per Week - Group 5 Tradesperson) First Year 45 244.00
Second Year 55 298.20
Third Year 75 406.70
Fourth Year 90 488.00
The above rates are calculated to the nearest 10 cents per week any fraction less than 5 cents to go to the lower multiple and 5 cents or more to go to the higher.
In addition to the above rates apprentices shall receive the appropriate amount prescribed in Clause 14 - Tool Allowance.
Provided that an apprentice employee under this Award who is required to perform construction work (as defined) on any day or part thereof shall be paid for the whole day an industry allowance at the rate of $20.40 per week. Where an apprentice has an entitlement under this provision on three or more days in any pay week they shall be paid the industry allowance of $20.40 for the whole of that pay week.
Should an apprentice attain a pass at credit standard for the first annual examination the employee passes at a technical college the employee shall receive the sum of $1.55 per week additional to the rates prescribed in subclause (b) of this subclause for the next following year of the apprenticeship. Should the apprentice receive a pass at credit standard in the second annual examination the employee shall receive $1.76 per week in addition to the rates prescribed in paragraph (b) of this subclause for the next following year of the apprenticeship.
For a similar pass in any subsequent examination the apprentice shall receive $2.00 per week in addition to the rates prescribed in paragraph (b) of this subclause for the next following year of the apprenticeship.
Where an apprentice is unable to sit for an annual examination because of personal illness or injury and then attains a pass at credit standard at a deferred examination in lieu thereof, the relevant additional amount shall be payable for the next following year of apprenticeship but from the beginning of the first pay period commencing on or after the date on which the results of that deferred examination are published only.
Any dispute as to the proof in respect of such illness shall be determined by the Commission.
Provided that an employer may, by agreement with the apprentice's parent or guardian, elect to provide the apprentice with a kit of tools and, subject to establishing the value of the tools at the time of so providing, deduct the Tool Allowance until the cost of the kit of tools is reimbursed. In the event of an apprentice being dismissed or leaving his/her employment before the cost of the tool kit has been reimbursed the employer shall be entitled to:
(i) deduct from any monies owing to the apprentice the remaining cost of the tool kit; or
(ii) by agreement retain tools at the originally nominated value to the amount still owing.
Provided that, irrespective of years of service, apprentices shall be paid at the rate of 70 cents per week extra when engaged on the construction of silos, water towers, grain elevators or on a multi-storey building beyond the third floor prior to an elevator being available.
(c) An employee who is under 21 years of age on the expiration of his/her apprenticeship and thereafter works as a minor in the occupation to which he/she has been apprenticed, shall be paid the adult rate for the classification. Adult rate for the purpose of this subclause means the appropriate rate of pay prescribed in clause 9 of this award.
(d) All apprenticed junior employees shall be indentured in accordance with the provisions of the Industrial Commercial and Training Act 1981. Provided that a period of probation of three months shall be allowed to each such junior employee which shall be reckoned as part of the period of his/her apprenticeship should he/she at the commencement thereof or during or at the termination thereof become indentured as aforesaid.
(e) The proportion of apprenticed junior employees to adult journeyperson shall not exceed two to three. The calculation of the proportion shall be based when it is proposed to take an apprentice, upon the aggregate number of employees on full-time employment with the employer for the preceding six months. If an employer is actually working in the trade he/she shall count as a journeyperson.
(f) If an employer is unable to fulfil his/her obligations to an apprentice, the apprentice shall be entitled to complete his/her term of apprenticeship with another employer, who may take and employ him/her as such an apprentice and for that purpose the apprentice shall if required so to do, sign a deed of apprenticeship to such other employer.
(g) No employer shall be entitled to take an apprentice unless he/she has been in business for at least one year. Provided that this subclause shall not apply to the case of an employer or an apprentice in a joinery mill.
2. Unapprenticed Junior Employees
(a) The proportion of unapprenticed junior employees to journeyperson employed by an employer shall not exceed one to four on building construction work performed on site and one to six on work performed in shops or joinery mills: Provided nevertheless that an employer who employs two adult employees may employ one unapprenticed junior employee.
(b) Unapprenticed junior employees shall be paid the same wage prescribed in subclause 1 (a) of this Schedule, provided that at the completion of four years employment at a particular trade or calling, or on attaining twenty-one years of age, whichever is the sooner, such employee shall be paid the appropriate adult rate prescribed in this Schedule.
(c) The provisions of clauses 1 to 11 (inclusive), 12 to 34 (inclusive) and 38 of the award shall be applicable to an in respect of the employment of unapprenticed junior employees.
(d) No unapprenticed junior employee shall be permitted or required by his/her employer to attend winches, sling timber or work power driven machinery.
3. Supplementary Payments
Apprentices and unapprenticed junior employees will receive a proportion of the supplementary payment in accordance with the relative percentages as prescribed in subclause 1 (a) of this Schedule.
