MA000071 PR545317 |
FAIR WORK COMMISSION |
DETERMINATION |
Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009
Item 6, Sch. 5—Modern awards review
Modern Awards Review 2012—Apprentices, Trainees and Juniors
(AM2012/135)
TIMBER INDUSTRY AWARD 2010
[MA000071]
Timber industry | |
JUSTICE BOULTON, SENIOR DEPUTY PRESIDENT |
SYDNEY, 11 DECEMBER 2013 |
Transitional review of modern awards - apprentices, trainees and junior rates - common matters - consequential variations - correction.
A. The determination issued by the Fair Work Commission on 22 November 2013 [MA000071 PR544324] is corrected as follows:
1. By deleting item A.3 and inserting the following:
“3. By deleting clause 17.6 and inserting the following:
17.6 Adult apprentices
(a) Adult apprentices in the Wood and Timber Furniture Stream
(i) The minimum weekly rates of pay for adult apprentices who commenced before 1 January 2014 are the following percentage of the minimum weekly wage rate for the adult classification of Level 5 in clause 17.2.
Year of apprentice |
% of level 5 minimum weekly wage |
First |
83.5 |
Second |
88.3 |
Third |
93.4 |
Fourth |
98.5 |
(ii) The minimum weekly rates of pay for adult apprentice who commenced on or after 1 January 2014 will be either the relevant percentage of the level 5 rate in the table below, the rate prescribed by clause 17.4 or 17.5 for the relevant year of the apprenticeship, or, in the case only of adult apprentices in the second or subsequent years of their apprenticeship, the rate for the lowest adult classification in clause 17.1, whichever is the greater.
Year of apprentice |
% of level 5 minimum weekly wage |
First |
83.5 |
Second |
88.3 |
Third |
93.4 |
Fourth |
98.5 |
(iii) A person employed by an employer under this award immediately prior to entering into a training agreement as an adult apprentice with that employer must not suffer a reduction in their minimum wage by virtue of entering into the training agreement, provided that the person has been an employee in that enterprise for at least six months as a full-time employee or twelve months as a part-time or regular and systematic casual employee immediately prior to commencing the apprenticeship. For the purpose only of fixing a minimum wage, the adult apprentice must continue to receive the minimum wage that applies to the classification specified in clause 17.2 in which the adult apprentice was engaged immediately prior to entering into the training agreement.
(b) Adult apprentices other than those in the Wood and Timber Furniture Stream
(i) The minimum wage of an adult apprentice who commenced on or after 1 January 2014 and is in the first year of their apprenticeship must be 80% of the relevant Level 5 rate, or the relevant rate prescribed by subclauses 17.4 or 17.5 for the relevant year of the apprenticeship, whichever is the greater.
(ii) The minimum wage of an adult apprentice who commenced on or after 1 January 2014 and is in the second and subsequent years of their apprenticeship must be the rate for the lowest relevant adult classification in subclause 17.1, or the relevant rate prescribed by subclauses 17.4 or 17.5 for the relevant year of the apprenticeship, whichever is the greater.
(iii) A person employed by an employer under this award immediately prior to entering into a training agreement as an adult apprentice with that employer must not suffer a reduction in their minimum wage by virtue of entering into the training agreement, provided that the person has been an employee in that enterprise for at least six months as a full-time employee or twelve months as a part-time or regular and systematic casual employee immediately prior to commencing the apprenticeship. For the purpose only of fixing a minimum wage, the adult apprentice must continue to receive the minimum wage that applies to the classification specified in clause 17 in which the adult apprentice was engaged immediately prior to entering into the training agreement.”
B. This determination comes into operation on the first full pay period commencing on or after 1 January 2014.
SENIOR DEPUTY PRESIDENT
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