AN120145 – Cold Storage and Ice Employees (State) Award
(i) For the purpose of increasing productivity and flexibility, as well as enhancing career opportunities for employees multiskilling may extend, by agreement between the employer and the majority of employees concerned, to allow the employees to perform any work in an enterprise within the scope of their skills and competence.
(ii) Employees shall perform a wider range of duties, including work which is incidental or peripheral to their main tasks or functions.
(iii) An employer may direct an employee to carry out such duties as are within the limits of the employee’s skill, competence and training consistent with the classification structure of this award provided that such duties are not designed to promote deskilling.
(iv) Employees shall not impose or continue to enforce existing demarcation barriers between the work covered by this award, provided that it is agreed that the work lies within the scope of the skill and competence of the employee concerned.
(v) Employees shall perform such work as reasonable and lawfully required of them by the employer, including accepting instruction from authorised personnel. Instructions may go to occupational health and safety issues.
(vi) Employees shall take all reasonable steps to achieve quality, accuracy and completion of any job or task assigned to the employee.
