AN120089 – Building and Construction Industry (State) Award

APPENDIX D - ROOF SLATERS AND TILERS PIECEWORK RATES, ETC.

1. Piecework: When employees do tiling on a piecework basis the following schedule of prices shall apply:

		Per square Metre
1.1		$
(a)	Fixing tiles, every second tile wired or nailed, including cutting	3.25
(b)	Fixing concrete tiles with a lap of less than 89 mm (31/2 inches) every second tile wired or nailed including cutting.	3.08
(c)	Fixing concrete tiles with a lap of 89 mm (31/2 inches) or more but not more than 114 mm (41/2 inches) every second tile wired or nailed including cutting	3.25
(d)	Fixing concrete tiles with lap of more than 114 mm (41/2 inches) every second tile wired or nailed including cutting	3.42
1.2	Fixing tiles, every tile wired, including cutting	0.41
	Two storey	0.36
	Three storey work	0.44
	Lacing tiles	0.84
	Fixing felt	0.43
	Fixing wiring battens - every course	0.24
	every second course	0.09
	every third course	0.04
		Per metre
		$
1.3	Ridging	3.40
	Screwing and pointing to gables	2.79
	Bedding and pointing to gables	4.32
	Gables -
	Single ridging	5.62
	Double ridging	11.17
1.4	Wire netting -	$0.36 per square metre extra.
1.5	Roofs of 35 degrees of steeper -	15 per cent extra.
	Roofs of 40 degrees or steeper -	40 per cent extra.
	Roofs over 45 degrees at a price to be mutually agreed upon between employer and employee.
		Per square metre extra
		$
1.6	When tiles are worked to a pattern	0.36
	When hardwood battens are used	0.36
	When cement and/or concrete tiles are fastened to hardwood battens by nails	0.10

2. Extra Conditions Applying to Piecework:

2.1 On a building of more than one storey if the material is hoisted for the employee and the employee takes delivery from the tray or rope, as the case may be, in which materials are lifted the additional allowances for second and third storey work, as provided for by subclause 1.2 of this appendix shall not apply.

2.2 All materials shall be delivered within 9 metres of the building or an allowance made at a rate to be agreed upon.

2.3 All upright work shall be done at a price to be agreed upon by employer and employee.

2.4 When an employer directs an employee to proceed with work and the employee is unable to proceed owing to the roof not being sufficiently advanced for tiling, the employer shall pay for all time lost at hourly rates of pay.

2.5 Should an employee be delayed from completing his work by reason of insufficient supply of materials the employer shall pay the hourly rates of pay for loss of time so incurred plus expenses incurred; provided that payment shall be made only for work in respect of which the employee has given the employer twenty-four hours notice that material would be required.

2.6 Where pieceworkers are required to attend at the employer's yard or place of business for materials they shall be paid at the hourly rates of pay for the time occupied by them in travelling between the yard or place of business and the job in addition to all fares.

2.7 The employee shall be provided with the following tools: ladder, bucket, shovel, broom and all scaffolding.

2.8 (a) The application of section 50 of the Act, in respect of the piecework rates set out in clause 1, Piecework, of this appendix, is hereby excluded, but the said piecework rates shall adjusted to accord with variations in the weekly award for adult males in the following manner: The total increase or decrease of the weekly rate of pay of a slater and tiler under the Building and Construction Industry (State) Award shall be expressed as a percentage increase or decrease, as the case may be, to two decimal places to determine the variation in the fixing rate of tiling.

(b) The method of adjustment prescribed in 2.8 (a) of this subclause in relation to the award wage for time workers is prescribed to affect the intention that the average weekly earnings of a pieceworker on the basis of the rate of 148.64 square metres of roofing or production operative at the date of this award shall be 15.5 per cent in excess of the ordinary weekly wage of a time worker.

(c) The piecework schedule of this appendix shall be increased or decreased to the nearest two decimal points, where the third decimal point is exactly .5 it shall be adjusted to the higher second decimal point.

A. See Appendix B, 2.7 Tilelayers Wall and Roof Slaters and Tilers - 38-Hour Week

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