AN120098 – Butter, Cheese & Other Dairy Products (State) Award

26. SUPPLY OF PROTECTIVE CLOTHING

26.1 The employer will each year supply, free of cost, adequate approved work uniforms.

26.2 Uniforms will be replaced on a fair wear and tear basis. If an employee can show to the employer’s satisfaction that his/her clothing is subject to excessive wear and tear because of duties of the position, the employer will supply to the employee such additional clothing as is reasonably necessary.

26.3 Each employee required to work in a room in which the temperature has been artificially reduced below two degrees Celsius (35.6 degrees Fahrenheit) will be supplied, free of cost, with suitable warm clothing for use in such work.

26.4 Where the duties of an employee require the use of gloves, they will be supplied free of cost by the employer.

26.5 An employee whose work is performed under wet conditions or who works in all weathers will be supplied, free of cost, according to the nature of the work, with waterproof aprons, gumboots or oilskins.

“Wet conditions” means conditions in which clothing or boots of an employee would, in the absence of protective clothing, become saturated with moisture in the course of the work.

26.6 Subject to the provisions of the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2000, any employee applying for new items issued in accordance with this clause, who fails to return those corresponding items already issued, will not be entitled to those new items unless they pay for them at a reasonable price.

26.7 Upon termination of employment, an employee will be required to return to the employer the uniforms and/or protective clothing last issued to him/her. In the event that the employee fails to return those items without reasonable cause or excuse, the employer will be entitled to deduct from any monies due to the employee, a fair and reasonable sum for the value of such articles, as at the time of the termination of employment.