AN120098 – Butter, Cheese & Other Dairy Products (State) Award
7.1 Adults
The minimum rates of wages for adults employed, as weekly employees in the grades below will be as set out in Table 1 – Wages, of Part B, Monetary Rates:
7.2 Juniors
7.2.1 A junior employee will be paid, according to age, a percentage of Production Assistant 1.
If the junior has acquired the skills of that of a higher grade the payment made to the junior will be a percentage of the adult rate of the relevant grade according to age.
Years of Age |
Percentage of Adult Rates |
Under 16 years of age |
51% |
Under 17 years of age |
58% |
Under 18 years of age |
67% |
Under 19 years of age |
76% |
Under 20 years of age |
85% |
Under 21 years of age |
90% |
7.3 Casual Employees
7.3.1 For all ordinary time worked on any one day, a casual employee as defined will be paid at an hourly rate ascertained by dividing the weekly rate prescribed for an employee of the classification in which he/she works, plus 15 per cent, by 40.
7.3.2 Casual employees will be guaranteed four hours pay at the casual rate for each start.
7.4 Part-Time Employees
A part-time employee will receive all the benefits of the award in the ratio of hours, as fixed, as they bear to 40 hours. The hourly rate will be the weekly rate divided by 40 hours.
Notation: When the award is varied for the 38-hour week, all part-time provisions will be adjusted accordingly.
7.5 Grades
Employees will be classified and paid in accordance with the following:
7.5.1 Production Assistant I is an employee appointed by the employer to this grade who will be required to perform any one or more of the functions within this grade.
General Hand
General Hand - Laboratory
Packer
Machine Operator
Gardener
Employee responsible for cleanliness of plant and factory.
Packer means an employee who cuts product by wire for bulk packing, feeding product into packing machine, weighing, wrapping in bulk, boxing in bulk, ramming, handling finished product into storeroom and stacking and unstacking in storeroom.
General Hand (Laboratory) means an employee engaged in a laboratory washing bottles, labelling containers for samples and performing general cleaning duties.
7.5.2 Production Assistant II is an employee appointed by the employer to this grade who will be required to perform any one or more of the functions within this grade and who may be required to perform any of the duties for which they are trained under Production Assistant I.
Storesperson
Freezing Room Employee
7.5.3 Plant Operator Grade 1 is an employee appointed by the employer to this grade who will be required to perform any one or more of the functions within this grade and who may be required to perform any of the duties for which they are trained under Production Assistant I and II.
Tally, Record and Despatch Hand (Plants & Depots)
Evaporator Operator (Single Effect)
Ice Cream Mix Maker or Machine Operator
Syrup Maker
Head Packer
Special By-Product Machine Operator
Milk Drier Operator (Roller)
Milk and/or Cream Tester
Pasteuriser and/or Cooler and/or Tanker Flowmeter Operator
Spray Milk Drier Operator’s Assistant
Operator Carton or Bottling Machine
Cultured Product Maker
Forklift Operator
Milk and/or Cream Tester means an employee who determines by any test the purity and fat content of milk and/or cream.
Cultured Product Maker means an employee who mixes and cultures product measures P.H. and controls hot and cold water and is in direct control of the process.
7.5.4 Plant Operator Grade 2 is an employee appointed by the employer to this Grade who will be required to perform any one or more of the functions within this grade and who may be required to perform any of the duties for which they are trained under Production Assistant I and II and Plant Operator Grade 1.
Storeperson in charge
Milk Drier Operator (Spray)
Assistant Cheesemaker
Milk and/or Cream Grader
Laboratory Assistant
Multi-Function Pasteuriser Operator I
Milk and/or Cream Grader means an employee who determines by sight, scent, taste, or other means the quality or grade of milk or cream.
Store person in Charge means an employee who is responsible for store and records and/or purchasing replacements and/or in charge of other employees in the store.
Multi-Function Pasteuriser Operator I means an employee who is directly responsible for the receival and preparation of milk ready for further product processing and is responsible for some basic analytical testing as is required by recognised industry standards.
7.5.5 Plant Operator Grade 3 is an employee appointed by the employer to this grade who will be required to perform any one or more of the functions within this grade and who may be required to perform any of the duties for which they are trained under Production Assistant I and II and Plant Operator Grade 1 and 2.
Cheese maker
Evaporator Operator (Multiple Effect)
Butter or Butter oil Maker
Laboratory Person in Charge
Ice Cream Control Room Operator
Multi-Function Pasteuriser Operator II
Butter maker means an employee who directly controls the processes of the manufacture of butter and who performs and/or directly supervises the actual process of manufacture after buttermilk has been drained from the churn.
Cheese maker means an employee who directly controls the processes of the manufacture of cheese and who performs and/or directly supervises the addition of ingredients to milk, setting and cutting and making of tests.
Ice Cream Control Room Operator means an employee who directly controls the processes of the manufacture of ice cream and who knows formulas, weighs off, formulates and directly supervises the process of manufacture.
Multi-Function Pasteuriser Operator II means an employee who is directly responsible for the receival and preparation of milk ready for further product processing and is responsible for the full range of chemical analysis of product as is required by recognised industry standards.
7.6 An employer may direct an employee to carry out such duties as are within the limits of an employees’ skill, competence and training. The employee will follow such direction.
