DETERMINATION

Fair Work Act 2009
s.156 - 4 yearly review of modern awards

4 yearly review of modern awards—Payment of wages
(AM2016/8)

PLUMBING AND FIRE SPRINKLERS AWARD 2010
[MA000036]

4 yearly review of modern awards – payment of wages common issue – penalties for late payment.

A. Further to the Full Bench decision issued by the Fair Work Commission on 1 December 2016 1, the above award is varied as follows:

1. By deleting clause 27.3 and inserting the following:

27.3 Where an employee is paid by cash or cheque and the employee is kept waiting for their wages on pay day for more than a quarter of an hour after the usual time of ceasing work, the employee must be paid at overtime rates after that quarter hour for the duration spent waiting at the workplace for payment, with a minimum payment of a quarter of an hour.

2. By deleting clause 27.4 and inserting the following:

27.4 When notice is given in accordance with clause 17—Termination of employment, monies due to the employee must be paid at the time of termination. Where this is not practicable monies will be sent by registered post or, if the employee is normally paid by electronic funds transfer, transferred into the employee’s account within two working days.

B. This determination comes into operation from 16 December 2016. In accordance with s.165(3) of the Fair Work Act 2009 this determination does not take effect until the start of the first full pay period that starts on or after 16 December 2016.

PRESIDENT

 1   [2016] FWCFB 8463

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