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

32. AREA, INCIDENCE AND DURATION

32.1 This Award is made following a review under section 19 of the Industrial Relations Act 1996 and rescinds and replaces the Butter, Cheese and Bacon Factories and Milk and Cream Condenseries, &c. (State) Award published 19 May 1995 (285 I.G. 1187), as varied, and the Butter, Cheese and Bacon Factories and Milk and Cream Condenseries Redundancy Award published 21 April 1995 (285 IG 433).

32.2 The changes made to the award pursuant to the Award Review pursuant to section 19 (6) of the Industrial Relations Act 1996 and Principle 26 of the Principles for Review of Award made by the Industrial Relations Commission of the New South Wales on 18 December 1998 (308 IG 307) take effect on and from 15 December 2000.

32.3 This award remains in force until varied or rescinded, the period for which it has been made having already expired.

32.4 This award applies to persons engaged in whole milk receival and treatment plants other than plants which receive, treat and retail milk only, butter, cheese, condensed milk, dried milk, casein factories associated with milk, butter and/or cheese factories, and/or including persons employed by any such factory or plant to collect bulk milk and/or cream at farms other than farms inside the County of Cumberland who are required to grade milk and/or cream before collection in the State, excluding the County of Yancowinna, the County of Northumberland and that part of the State which is bounded on the south by the northern boundary of the last mentioned county from its eastern extremity westward to the point of its intersection by the main railway line from Singleton to Walgett, thence on the west by the said railway line to Walgett (and including all towns on such railway line from Singleton to Walgett), thence by a line running due north to the New South Wales-Queensland border, thence on the north by such border extending eastwards to the coastline, thence on the east by the coastline extending southwards, to the north-eastern extremity of the County of Northumberland and in all towns on the railway line from Muswellbrook to Merriwa, inclusive;

Excepting:

Persons employed in the preparation and manufacture of malted milk, carters, grooms, stablepersons, yardpersons, drivers of motor or other power propelled vehicles (other than persons engaged in the collection of bulk milk and/or cream at farms outside the County of Cumberland who are required to grade milk and/or cream before collection) and labourers employed in connection therewith;

Engine-drivers, firepersons, greasers, trimmers and cleaners and pumpers engaged in or about the driving of engines and electrical crane, winch and motor drivers;