AP782505CR - Graphics Arts - General - Award 2000
[1.4.1 corrected by S2976 from 01Feb00]
1.4.1 Award means the Graphic Arts - General - Award 2000.
1.4.2 Act means the Workplace Relations Act 1996.
1.4.3 Adult means:
1.4.3(a) An employee who has attained the age of 21 years other than an apprentice who has not completed their period of apprenticeship.
1.4.3(b) Any employee who has completed their apprenticeship but has not attained the age of 21 years.
1.4.3(c) A non-apprenticed junior who has not attained the age of 21 years who is employed as a Keyboard operator/assembler.
1.4.4 Adult apprentice means a person of 21 years of age or over at the time of entering into an indenture of apprenticeship provided for in 5.1.3(a).
1.4.5 Commission means the Australian Industrial Relations Commission constituted under the Workplace Relations Act 1996.
1.4.6 Day's work means work performed between the usual hours of commencing and finishing work on any day work, or shift work.
1.4.7 Hourly rate means the weekly wage prescribed by this award for the work performed divided by the number of hours which constitute the employee's ordinary working week. In the event of an employee being employed on shift work the penalty payable for work at such hours will be part of the weekly wage of that employee.
1.4.8 Saturday means the time between midnight Friday and midnight Saturday.
1.4.9 Sunday means the time between midnight Saturday and midnight Sunday.
1.4.10 Union means the Automotive, Food, Metals, Engineering, Printing and Kindred Industries Union.
1.4.11(a) Embossing means the making of an impression or impressions upon any surface by the use of male and female dies, whether or not ink, foil (whether of metal or otherwise), or any other colouring medium is being or has been applied to the surface upon which the impression is being or has been made.
1.4.11(b) Graphic pre press means image design and development, composition and graphic reproduction and all incidental processes.
1.4.12 Graphic reproduction definitions
1.4.12(a) Dot etching and retouching means the following group of operations or any of them: aerographing, tracing, stripping opaquing, staging, dot reducing, retouching, colour correcting negatives and/or positives, and all things incidental thereto.
1.4.12(b) Lithography and lithographic without limiting the meaning of such words, means the lithographic processes known as photo-lithography, photo-lithographic, lithographic offset, photo offset, offset, lithography, offset printing, metalithography, metalography, planeography, chromolithography, and dry lithography.
1.4.13 Printing definitions
1.4.13(a) Flexographic printing means a method of rotary letterpress printing which employs rubber or other types of flexible plates rapid drying fluid inks.
1.4.13(b) Gravure printing means a process of printing, from a recessed surface; the opposite of letterpress printing, in that the design areas are recessed into the plate instead of being in relief.
1.4.13(c) Letterpress printing means printing by direct or offset printing processes from electrotypes, stereotypes, photo-engraved blocks, type, or any other form of printing from a relief surface and shall include printing by multigraph, writer press, roneotype, or similar machines printing from type, stereos, electros, zincos, photo-engraving or the like, but does not apply to printing which is done wholly by ribbon process using a stencil of waxed paper or prepared tissue paper.
1.4.13(d) Lithographic printing means planographic printing by direct or offset printing processes from surfaces or stone, rubber, metal, or other material on paper, tin or other material, and includes printing by Multilith, Rotaprint, or any similar type of printing machine but does not apply to printing which is done wholly by ribbon process using a stencil of waxed paper or prepared tissue paper.
1.4.13(e) Non-impact printing machining means:
1.4.13(e)(i) Non-impact printing machines used in or in connection with the commercial printing industry but not including non-impact printing machines used solely for photocopying or facsimile transmission; and
1.4.13(e)(ii) Non-impact printing machines which employ non-impact printing technology in applying images to paper and or other surfaces and includes (either singularly or in combination) but is not limited to - lasography, inkjet and inkbubble, ion deposition, thermal transfer, xerography, magnetography, cathode ray tube projection, light emitting diode, liquid crystal display; and
1.4.13(e)(iii) Non-impact printing machines called Electronic Printing Machines or Laser Printing Machines that use one or more of the above processes. Major manufacturers of this type of equipment include, but are not limited to Canon, Hewlett Packard, Siemens, Rank-Xerox and IBM.
1.4.13(f) Small-offset lithographic printing machines means small-offset lithographic printing machines known by the trade names A.B. Dick, Gestelith, Hamada, MGD 22, Multilith, Romayor and Rotaprint (and any other similar kind of machine) having a sheet size the longest side of which is less than 620 millimetres (24-1/2 inches) with the shortest side not exceeding 450 millimetres (eighteen inches) and with the printing mechanism driven by a motor which is specified by the manufacturer as not exceeding 1.1 kilowatt power (1-1/2 horsepower): Provided that nothing herein shall be construed to include the printing machines known by the trade name Davidson Dualith or letterpress printing machines of any description.
1.4.13(g) Screen printing means the process of printing or reproducing through a metallic mesh screen or a screen made of silk or other material; the preparation of copy including screen art and/or designing and/or the making therefore of all classes of stencils.
1.4.13(h) Stamping means and includes the making of an impression or impressions upon any surface by the use of a blocking die or blocking dies and using ink, foil (whether of metal or otherwise), or any other colouring medium on the surface upon which the impression is being or has been made.
1.4.14 Classification definitions
1.4.14(a) Art and/or designing (including commercial art) however described means the work of an employee employed in or in connection with designing, sketching, drawing, tracing aerographing, keying, colouring photographs, retouching of bromides, reproducing, writing (including ticket writing) lettering, illustrating, commercial art, or in copying art work or layouts, or in any way preparing art work or layouts manually or electronically for the use or prospective use within the industry as defined in this award.
1.4.14(b) Binder and finisher means a tradesperson who performs the general trade skills of binding and finishing.
1.4.14(c) A despatcher in the corrugated and solid fibreboard containers industry section means an employee in a finished goods despatch area whose duties include (but not being the labouring aspects only of such functions): Receiving finished goods; assembling or collecting goods in store to satisfy orders, requisitions or Schedules; checking goods before despatch for quantity type or size; handing over goods to the person authorised to receive such goods. In addition they may be required to keep appropriate records. There will be at least one employee in each finished goods despatch area who is classified as a despatcher.
1.4.14(d) Fork-lift and/or grab truck and/or similar powered vehicle operator excludes an operator of any vehicle where the operator is not required to ride on the vehicle in order to operate it.
1.4.14(e) Graphic pre-press tradesperson means a tradesperson who performs the general trade skills of graphic pre-press.
1.4.14(f) Keyboard operator/assembler means an employee who performs limited functions of keyboard operating and/or assembly, who is neither a graphic pre-press tradesperson nor an Artist/Designer (including Commercial Artist) and who does not perform the general trade skills of a graphic pre-press tradesperson.
1.4.14(g) Machinist means in the corrugated and solid fibreboard containers industry section without limiting the generality of that term, the person who, under the direction of the employer is in charge of and responsible for the safety of those under their control, the efficient operation, care and cleanliness of the equipment and its immediately surrounding areas, the behaviour of the crew (if any) and the setting up, maintenance of quality and output of the machine in accordance with the standards set by the employer.
1.4.14(h) Assistant machinist means in the corrugated and solid fibreboard containers industry section the person (who is second in charge of the machine) appointed by the employer to assist the machinist in the performance of any of the duties of the machinist as defined but who is not responsible for taking charge of the machine unless so directed by the employer.
1.4.14(i) Any other employee on that machine means in the corrugated and solid fibreboard containers industry section any employee other than the machinist or assistant machinist who is assigned to the machine by the employer to perform work at the direction of the machinist.
1.4.14(j) Single facer machinist means in the corrugated and solid fibreboard containers industry section the person in charge of a single facer either operating in line with a double backer or as a separate unit, making single faced board.
1.4.14(k) Packer and/or despatcher means an employee engaged in the despatch of goods and whose duties include (but not being the labouring aspects only of such functions): receiving goods; assembling, packing or collecting goods to satisfy orders, requisitions or Schedules; checking goods before despatch for quantity, type or size; handing over goods to the person authorised to receive such goods. In addition they may be required to keep appropriate records. A packer and/or despatcher will not include an employee who merely takes off goods and/or materials from a machine, table or conveyor and/or wraps those goods and/or places them in containers and/or cartons and/or other receptacles but does not despatch them.
1.4.14(l) Printing attachment means a simple printing device incapable of printing on its own but which when attached to another machine can perform a limited printing function.
1.4.14(m) Printing machinist means a tradesperson who performs the general trade skills of printing machining.
1.4.14(n) Printer-slotter means a machine used for printing, slotting, scoring and/or slitting and includes printing machines (not being printing attachments). A printer-slotter may have attachments for limited die cutting operations, for example, hand holes and ventilation holes.
1.4.14(o) Storeperson is an employee in a store whose duties include receiving and/or storing away and/or issuing goods and materials used in or in connection with the industry (not being the labouring aspects only of such functions). In addition they may be required to keep appropriate records.
