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FAIR WORK AUSTRALIA

ORDER

Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009
Sch 5, Item 14—Variation of modern award


ROAD TRANSPORT AND DISTRIBUTION AWARD 2010
(AM2008/21)

JUSTICE GIUDICE, PRESIDENT
VICE PRESIDENT LAWLER
VICE PRESIDENT WATSON
SENIOR DEPUTY PRESIDENT WATSON
SENIOR DEPUTY PRESIDENT HARRISON
SENIOR DEPUTY PRESIDENT ACTON
COMMISSIONER SMITH

MELBOURNE, 16 MARCH 2010

Award modernisation – residual variations – statement by Australian Industrial Relations Commission 21 December 2009 [2009] AIRCFB 980 1

A. It is ordered that the Road Transport and Distribution Award 2010 2 be varied as follows:

1. By deleting the definition of Act in clause 3—Definitions and interpretation and inserting the following:

2. By deleting the definition of employee in clause 3—Definitions and interpretation and inserting the following:

3. By deleting the definition of employer in clause 3—Definitions and interpretation and inserting the following:

4. By deleting the definition of NES in clause 3—Definitions and interpretation and inserting the following:

5. By inserting the following definitions in clause 3—Definitions and interpretation in alphabetical order:

6. By deleting from clause 3—Definitions and interpretation the definitions of Commission, enterprise award and NAPSA.

7. By deleting clause 4.4 and inserting the following:

4.4 The award does not cover employees who are covered by a modern enterprise award, or an enterprise instrument (within the meaning of the Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009 (Cth)), or employers in relation to those employees.

8. By inserting new clauses 4.5–4.7 as follows:

4.5 The award does not cover employees who are covered by a State reference public sector modern award, or a State reference public sector transitional award (within the meaning of the Fair Work (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2009 (Cth)), or employers in relation to those employees.

4.6 This award covers any employer which supplies labour on an on-hire basis in the industry set out in clause 4.1 in respect of on-hire employees in classifications covered by this award, and those on-hire employees, while engaged in the performance of work for a business in that industry. This subclause operates subject to the exclusions from coverage in this award.

4.7 This award covers employers which provide group training services for trainees engaged in the industry and/or parts of industry set out at clause 4.1 and those trainees engaged by a group training service hosted by a company to perform work at a location where the activities described herein are being performed. This subclause operates subject to the exclusions from coverage in this award.

9. By renumbering the existing clause 4.5 as clause 4.8.

10. By replacing the words “the Commission” with “Fair Work Australia” wherever they appear in clause 10—Dispute resolution.

11. By deleting clauses 14.5(a) and (b) and inserting the following:

14.5 Transitional provisions

12. By deleting the title of subclause 16.1(a) and inserting “Leading hand allowance”.

13. By deleting the words “5.05% of the standard rate” in clause 16.1(f)(i) and inserting “$30.33”.

14. By deleting clause 16.4(b) and inserting the following:

15. By deleting clause 17.1(a) and inserting the following:

16. By deleting clause 17.2 and inserting the following:

17.2 Western Australia

17. By deleting clause 18.1(a) and inserting the following:

18. By deleting clause 18.2 and inserting the following:

18.2 The employee’s entitlement to accident pay under the notional agreement preserving a State award or the award is limited to the amount of accident pay which exceeds the employee’s entitlement to accident pay, if any, under any other instrument.

19. By inserting the words “or its successor” in clause 21.4 after the words “the following superannuation funds”.

20. By deleting the words “full-time worker” from clause 28.2(a) and inserting “full-time or part-time employee”.

21. By deleting the words “weekly employee” from clause 28.2(c) and inserting “full-time or part-time employee”.

22. By deleting clause A.1.2 and inserting the following:

A.1.2 The provisions of this schedule are to be applied:

23. By deleting clause A.2.1(b) and inserting the following:

24. By deleting clause A.3.1(b) and inserting the following:

25. By deleting clause A.5.1 and A.5.2 and inserting the following:

A.5.1 The following transitional arrangements apply to an employer which, immediately prior to 1 January 2010:

A.5.2 Prior to the first full pay period on or after 1 July 2010 the employer must pay no less than the loading or penalty in the relevant transitional minimum wage instrument or award-based transitional instrument for the classification concerned.

26. By deleting clauses A.6.1–A.6.3 and inserting the following:

A.6.1 The following transitional arrangements apply to an employer which, immediately prior to 1 January 2010:

A.6.2 Prior to the first full pay period on or after 1 July 2010 the employer must pay no less than the loading or penalty in the relevant transitional minimum wage instrument or award-based transitional instrument.

A.6.3 The difference between the loading or penalty in this award and the rate in clause A.6.2 is referred to as the transitional percentage. Where there is no equivalent loading or penalty in this award, the transitional percentage is the rate in A.6.2.

27. By deleting clause A.7.1 and inserting the following:

A.7.1 The following transitional arrangements apply to an employer not covered by clause A.5 or A.6 in relation to a particular loading or penalty in this award.

28. By deleting clause A.7.3 and inserting the following:

A.7.3 From the following dates the employer must pay no less than the following percentage of the loading or penalty in this award:

29. By inserting Schedule D as follows:


Schedule D—National Training Wage

D.1 Title

This is the National Training Wage Schedule.

D.2 Definitions

In this schedule:

D.3 Coverage

D.3.1 Subject to clauses D.3.2 to D.3.6 of this schedule, this schedule applies in respect of an employee covered by this award who is undertaking a traineeship whose training package and AQF certificate level is allocated to a wage level by Appendix D1 to this schedule or by clause D.5.4 of this schedule.

D.3.2 This schedule only applies to AQF Certificate Level IV traineeships for which a relevant AQF Certificate Level III traineeship is listed in Appendix D1 to this schedule.

D.3.3 This schedule does not apply to the apprenticeship system or to any training program which applies to the same occupation and achieves essentially the same training outcome as an existing apprenticeship in an award as at 25 June 1997.

D.3.4 This schedule does not apply to qualifications not identified in training packages or to qualifications in training packages which are not identified as appropriate for a traineeship.

D.3.5 Where the terms and conditions of this schedule conflict with other terms and conditions of this award dealing with traineeships, the other terms and conditions of this award prevail.

D.3.6 At the conclusion of the traineeship, this schedule ceases to apply to the employee.

D.4 Types of Traineeship

The following types of traineeship are available under this schedule:

D.4.1 a full-time traineeship based on 38 ordinary hours per week, with 20% of ordinary hours being approved training; and

D.4.2 a part-time traineeship based on less than 38 ordinary hours per week, with 20% of ordinary hours being approved training solely on-the-job or partly on-the-job and partly off-the-job, or where training is fully off-the-job.

D.5 Minimum Wages

D.5.1 Minimum wages for full-time traineeships

D.5.2 Minimum wages for part-time traineeships

D.5.3 Other minimum wage provisions

D.5.4 Default wage rate

D.6 Employment conditions

D.6.1 A trainee undertaking a school-based traineeship may, with the agreement of the trainee, be paid an additional loading of 25% on all ordinary hours worked instead of paid annual leave, paid personal/carer’s leave and paid absence on public holidays, provided that where the trainee works on a public holiday then the public holiday provisions of this award apply.

D.6.2 A trainee is entitled to be released from work without loss of continuity of employment and to payment of the appropriate wages to attend any training and assessment specified in, or associated with, the training contract.

D.6.3 Time spent by a trainee, other than a trainee undertaking a school-based traineeship, in attending any training and assessment specified in, or associated with, the training contract is to be regarded as time worked for the employer for the purposes of calculating the trainee’s wages and determining the trainee’s employment conditions.

D.6.4 Subject to clause D.3.5 of this schedule, all other terms and conditions of this award apply to a trainee unless specifically varied by this schedule.


Appendix D1: Allocation of Traineeships to Wage Levels

The wage levels applying to training packages and their AQF certificate levels are:

D1.1 Wage Level A

D1.2 Wage Level B

D1.3 Wage Level C

30. By deleting the amount “$69” in clause E.4.2 and inserting “$71”.

31. By replacing the words “the Commission” with “Fair Work Australia” wherever they appear in clause E.6.

32. By deleting the words “the Industrial Registrar” in clause E.6.2 and inserting “Fair Work Australia”.

33. By inserting deleting the amount “$69” in clause E.10.3 and inserting “$71”.

34. By updating the Table of Contents and cross-references accordingly.

B. This order commences on 1 January 2010.

PRESIDENT

 1   [2009] AIRCFB 980

 2   MA000038  PR986380



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