AN120192 – Electricians &c. (State) Award

AN120192 – Electricians &c. (State) Award

37. AREA, INCIDENCE AND DURATION

37.1 This award has been made pursuant to the s19 of the Industrial Relations Act 1996. It shall commence from the first full pay period to commence on or after 19 April 2001, and shall remain in force for 12 months.

This award rescinds and replaces:

(a) the Electricians, &c. (State) Award published 28 August 1974 and reprinted 3 February 1982 and further reprinted 7 August 1992 (270 I.G. 950) and all variations thereof.

(b) the Electricians &c., Redundancy and Technological Change (State) Award published 24 November 1995 (289 I.G. 617).

(d) the Electricians &c Family Leave (State) Award published 15 December 1995 (289 I.G. 1276).

(e) the Electricians &c. (State Wage Case) (State) Award 1996 published 24 October 1997 (301 I.G. 1059), and all variations thereof.

(f) the Electricians &c. (State) Expense Related Allowances Award 1996 published 14 June 1996 (293 I.G. 331), and all variations thereof.

37.2 The changes made to the award pursuant to the Award Review under section 19(6) of the Industrial Relations Act 1996 and Principle 26 of the Principles for Review of Awards made by the Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales on 28 April 1999 (310 I.G. 359) take effect on and from 16 September 2004.

This award remains in force until varied or rescinded, the period for which it was made already having expired.

ELECTRICIANS, &C. (STATE) INDUSTRIAL COMMITTEE

INDUSTRIES AND CALLINGS

This Award shall apply to all persons employed in the classifications specified in clause 8, Wage Rates, within the following industries and callings;

Makers, fitters, repairers and installers of electrical apparatus and installations and persons assisting therein, and employees engaged in the maintenance of electrical apparatus and installations and persons assisting therein, or in running electrical plant, and in connection with such industries, all oxy-acetylene and electric welders in the State, excluding the County of Yancowinna;

excepting employees of –

State Transit Authority of New South Wales; State Rail Authority of New South Wales; The Roads and Traffic Authority; The Water Board; The Hunter District Water Board; South Maitland Railways Pty Limited; Southern Copper Limited, Metal Manufactures Limited, Incitec Limited; The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited at Newcastle; Australian Iron and Steel Proprietary Limited, within the jurisdiction of the Iron and Steel Works Employees (Australian Iron & Steel Proprietary Limited) Conciliation Committee and Quarries (Australian Iron and Steel Pty Limited) Conciliation Committee;

Blue Circle Southern Cement Limited; The Council of the City of Sydney; Sydney Electricity; The Electricity Commission of New South Wales (Pacific Power); Municipal, shire and county councils, or of person or corporations supplying electricity to the said councils, or to the public under agreement with the said councils; Australian Wire Industries Pty Ltd at its Sydney Wiremill; Australian Wire Industries Pty Ltd at its Newcastle Wiremill; The Council of the City of Newcastle; The Australian Gas Light Company;

and excepting also employees –

In or about coal mines north of Sydney, in or about coal mines in the South Coast district, in or about coal and shale mines west of Sydney; In or about metalliferous and limestone mines; in or in connection with mining for minerals other than coal or shale; and in or about diamond and gembearing mines, mining dredges, ore cluicing process, ore smelting, refining, treatment and reduction works;

and excepting also –

All person employed in or in connection with hospitals, mental hospitals, public charitable institutions or ambulance work; Persons employed in or by The United Dental Hospital of Sydney;

and excepting also employees within the jurisdiction of the -

Australian Wire Industries Pty Ltd - Newcastle Ropery Industrial Committee; Breweries, &c. (State) Industrial Committee; Cement Workers, &c. (State) Industrial Committee; Crown Employees (Skilled Tradesmen) Industrial Committee) Electrical Contracting Industry (State) Industrial Committee; John Lysaght (Australia) Limited Newcastle Industrial Committee; John Lysaght (Australia) Limited Port Kembla Industrial Committee; John Lysaght (Australia) Limited Unanderra Industrial Committee; Milk Treatment, &c., and Distribution (State) Industrial Committee; Public Hospital (Skilled Tradesmen) Industrial Committee; Smelting and Fertilizer Manufacturing Industrial Committee; Special Steels and Steel Products Manufacture (Commonwealth Steel Company Limited) Industrial Committee; Tubemakers of Australia Limited, Newcastle Industrial Committee; Tubemakers of Australia Limited, Yennora Industrial Committee.

and excepting also employees in the following organisations meeting the appropriate criteria –

Australian Consolidated Press Ltd and Conpress Printing are exempted from this award so long as they observe the terms and conditions of Industrial Agreement No. 4066 filed 16 June 1970 and any variation or substitution therefor.

Subject to the provisions of clauses 14 and 15 of Industrial Agreement No. 4058 filed 2 June, 1970 John Fairfax & Sons Pty Ltd is exempt from this award so long as it observes the terms and conditions of the said Industrial Agreement No. 4058 or of any other industrial agreement in variation thereof or in substitution therefor.

Subject to the provisions as to temporary employees contained in clause 14 of Industrial Agreement No. 4067, filed 17 June 1970 Mirror Newspapers Limited is exempt from this award so long as it observes the terms and conditions of the said Industrial Agreement No. 4067 or of any other industrial agreement in variation thereof or in substitution therefor.

Subject to the provisions of clauses 14 and 15 of Industrial Agreement No. 4065, filed 10 June 1970 Sungravure Limited is exempt from this award so long as it observes the terms and conditions of the said Industrial Agreement No. 4065 or of any other industrial agreement in variation thereof or in substitution therefor.

Board of Fire Commissioners of New South Wales is exempt from this award so long as it observes the terms and conditions of Industrial Agreement No. 4822, filed 10 August 1973 or of any other industrial agreement in variation thereof or in substitution therefor.

Electrical tradesman's assistants employed under the provisions of the Crown Employees (Tradesman's Assistants) Award are exempt from the provisions of this award.

The State Dockyard, Newcastle, is exempt from the provisions of clauses 22, Sick Leave, 24, Annual Leave, and subclauses 25.1, Long Service Leave, and 25.3, Bereavement Leave, of clause 25, Other Leave, so long as it observes the provisions of the New South Wales Government Uniform Leave Conditions in force from time to time.

Koppers Australia Proprietary Limited is exempt from subclause 17.5, Spread of Hours, of clause 17, Hours of Work — Day Workers, of this award, so long as the company and the union observe the terms and conditions of the agreement ratified by the Industrial Commission of New South Wales on 24 February 1988 in Matter No. 16 of 1988 or any variation or substitution therefor.