AN120221 – Funeral Industries (State) Award 2005

PART III – GENERAL 

14. DEFINITIONS

(i) Head Office shall mean the premises which are fitted as a Funeral Parlour and the principal place of business of a Funeral Director. Where a Funeral Director has only one funeral parlour those premises shall be the Head Office.

(ii) A Branch shall be any Funeral Parlour other than Head Office or any Agency.

(iii) An Agency shall be any premises other than a Head Office or a Branch.

(iv) Resident Manager at Head Office

At the Head Office of a Funeral Director incorporating a chapel, funeral parlour or workshop, a Resident Manager may be employed and if so employed shall reside on the premises and shall be paid the same wages and shall enjoy the same conditions of employment as a Branch Manager.

(v) Resident Manager at a Branch shall mean a weekly employee required to look after, and who resides at a branch and who may be employed in any capacity in the funeral industry covered by this award, and except where otherwise provided for therein, shall be paid overtime rates and shall be entitled to all other conditions of this award applying to other employees. Any person temporarily relieving the resident manager at head office or a branch on his/her time off duty shall be granted the same conditions and overtime rates as those provided for Resident Managers but both must not be on duty at the same time.

(vi) Relieving Manager shall mean a weekly employee who may be employed in any capacity in the funeral industry covered by this award and who is regularly employed to relieve a Resident Manager during his/her time off duty. Such employee, whilst relieving a Resident Manager shall, except where otherwise provided for herein, be granted the same conditions and overtime rates as those provided for Resident Managers, but both must not be on duty at the same time.

(vii) Non-Resident Officer and Duty Officer

Non-Resident Officer or Duty Officer may be employed at Head Office or a Branch. His/Her ordinary working hours and limitation on work during normal hours will be as provided in subparagraph (3) of paragraph (a) of subclause (i) of Clause 3 - Hours, of Part I - Funeral Directors, of this award. Where a Non-Resident Officer or Duty Officer is employed under this category a Resident Manager need not be employed. They may be employed in any capacity in the funeral industry covered by this award.

(viii) Resident Arranging Officer shall mean a weekly employee residing at branch premises fitted for use as a funerals chapel or parlour, and who acts in the arranging of funerals, the carrying out of any receptionist duties or any administrative functions connected with the arranging or planning of funerals and the supervision of viewing and other duties connected with the administrative conduct of that branch, but shall not be employed to do any other work in the funeral industry covered by this award.

(ix) Arranging Officer shall mean a weekly employee required to make funeral arrangements, the carrying out of any receptionist duties or any administrative functions connected with the arranging or planning of funerals and the supervision of viewing and other duties connected with the conduct of any office of branch, but shall not be employed to do any other work in the funeral industry covered by this award.

(x) Embalmer shall mean a weekly employee or a duly qualified casual employee engaged for more than half of his/her working time in the work of sterilisation and/or preservation of human remains and who may be employed also in any other capacity in the undertaking industry covered by this award.

(xi) Conductors shall mean an employee engaged for more than half of his/her working time to supervise the carrying out of funerals from any place to a cemetery or crematorium and the return there from.

(xii) Trainee Embalmer shall mean an employee engaged to perform the duties of a Shopman, as defined, and who in addition to body preparation, will perform invasive procedures under supervision of a qualified embalmer.

(xiii) Shop person shall mean a weekly or casual employee engaged in the making, trimming, polishing or finishing of coffins, wholly or partially, and who may also be employed in any capacity in the undertaking industry covered by this award.

(xiv) Casket Maker shall mean any employee, other than a shop person, wholly or partially engaged in the making, spraying, staining, lacquering, varnishing, and/or polishing of caskets and/or crematoria urns by hand or any mechanical process. He/She shall not be employed in any other capacity in the undertaking industry covered by this award.

(xv) Labourer is an employee engaged to perform routine labouring duties in and about casket making production facilities.

(xvi) Casket without limiting its general meaning, shall include any casket irrespective of the material used in its construction and manufactured for the purpose of the transfer, cremation or interment of a deceased person.

(xvii) Funeral shall mean the conveying of a casket containing the body of a deceased person from any place direct to a cemetery, crematorium or mausoleum for the purpose of interring, cremating or entombment of the remains.

No employee shall be required or permitted to deliver a deceased person to a cemetery, crematorium or mausoleum for the purpose of interring, cremating, entombment or committal of such deceased persons more than eight hours (8) prior to the commencement of service or committal for such deceased person and such employee shall not be required or permitted to deliver a deceased person to a crematorium for the purpose of cremation other than to the crematorium chapel.

(xviii) Transfer shall mean the conveying of a deceased person from one place to another other than for the purpose of interment, cremation or entombment.

(xix) Union shall mean The Funeral and Allied Industries Union of New South Wales.