AN120196 – Engine Drivers General (State) Award
6.1 Boiler Cleaning - Any person engaged inside the gas or water space of any boiler, flue or economizer, in cleaning or scraping work shall, whilst so employed be paid an amount as set in Item 2 of Table 2, in addition to their ordinary or overtime rate of pay.
6.2 Cold Places - An employee working more than one hour in places where the temperature is reduced by artificial means below 0 degrees C shall be paid an amount as set in Item 7 of Table 2. Where work continues for more than two hours such employee shall be entitled to a rest period of twenty minutes every two hours without loss of pay.
6.3 Wet Places - An employee required to work in such a place as would render them liable to become wet shall be paid an amount as set in Item 8 of Table 2, extra for all such time worked unless protective clothing is provided in accordance with clause 36.4 (Protective Clothing).
6.4 Work which a foreman and workman shall agree is of an unusually dirty or offensive nature - an amount as set in Item 11 of Table 2. In the case of disagreement between the foreman and workman, the workman or a shop steward on their behalf shall be entitled, within 24 hours to ask for a decision on the workman's claim by the employer's industrial officer (if there be one), or otherwise by the employer or the executive officer responsible for the management or superintendence of the plant concerned. In such case a decision shall be given on the workman's claim within 48 hours of its being asked for (unless that time expires on a non-working day, in which case it shall be given during the next working day), or else the said allowance shall be paid. Any dispute arising under this subclause as to whether the work is of an unusually dirty or offensive nature shall be determined by the appropriate Industrial Committee.
6.5 (a) Construction Allowance - Australian Iron and Steel Project Port Kembla - Employees of contractors bound by this award engaged on construction site (in existence on 20 October 1971), of Australian Iron and Steel Proprietary Limited at Port Kembla and Commonwealth Steel Company Limited at Unanderra shall be paid an amount as set in Item 9 of Table 2. This payment shall be made in compensation for the particular disabilities experienced on these sites.
(b) An employee in receipt of the construction allowance prescribed by paragraph (a) of this subclause shall not be entitled to any of the other special rates prescribed by this clause.
(c) The construction allowance prescribed by paragraph (a) of this subclause shall be paid for all purposes of the award.
6.6 Employees of Quarries Pty Ltd engaged in the operation of mechanical shovels to dig and load blast furnace slag at No. 4 Blast Furnace and No. 21 Dump, Australian Iron and Steel Pty Ltd, Port Kembla, shall be paid an amount as set in Item 10 of Table 2, whilst so engaged.
