AN120470 – Retail Services Employees (State) Award
(i) "Retail Security Assistant" means:
(a) an employee engaged by a retailer to watch, guard or protect its premises and/or property; or
(b) an employee stationed at an entrance and/or exit whose principal duties shall include the control of movement of persons, vehicles, goods and/or property coming out of or going into premises or property, including vehicles carrying goods of any description, to ensure that the quantity and description of such goods is in accordance with the requirements of the relevant document and/or gate pass and who also may have other duties to perform and shall include an area or door attendant or commissionaire in a retail store or commercial building who may be required to perform security checks on either employees or members of the public.
(ii) "Retail Building Assistant" means an employee whose presence is required on premises for the protection, good order or convenient use thereof and who also may have other duties in respect of the cleanliness or upkeep thereof, including routine or minor maintenance, which may involve the use of a variety of hand and power tools; provided that such work is not of a nature so as to require a qualified tradesperson.
(iii) "Retail Services Assistant" means an employee engaged to carry out the following duties: parking attendant duties and/or including motor car washing, cleaning, greasing of cars in parking stations and establishments both owned by and operated by and in connection with retail shops, lift driving or lift attending, cleaning work of any description of premises or in bringing into or maintaining premises in a clean condition, whatever may be the nature of the employees other duties and making and/or serving morning or afternoon teas or lunches or other meals including washing up and other duties in connection with such work.
(iv) "Propagator and/or Gardener" means an employee who is capable of determining the proper stage at which cuttings may be taken from ornamental trees and shrubs and whose principal duties include the maintenance of nursery stock and the budding, grafting and layering of such stock, who is responsible for the proper care and maintenance of a garden or rockery and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, shall include an employee who is responsible for the designing, laying out and preparation of gardens or rockeries, the preparation of sprays and pruning and transplanting of shrubs.
(v) "General Garden Hand" means an employee principally engaged in the maintenance of gardens, lawns and rockeries and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, shall include an employee engaged in trimming edges, mowing lawns, sowing, planting, watering, spreading fertiliser, weeding, clearing shrubs, trimming hedges and assisting the propagator and/or gardener, as defined.
(vi) "Union" means the Shop Distributive and Allied Employees' Association, New South Wales, and the Shop Assistants and Warehouse Employees' Federation of Australia, Newcastle and Northern, New South Wales.
(vii) "Day" means the period from midnight to midnight.
