AN120484 – Saddlery, Leather, Canvas and Plastic Material Workers' (State) Award
(a) "Double time" shall mean when applicable to ordinary hours of work on a weekday, the ordinary hourly rate payable as part of the weekly wage, and in addition a rate equal to such ordinary hourly rate.
(b) "Double time and one-half" or rate of double time and one-half shall mean when applicable to hours of work on a holiday, the ordinary hourly rate payable as part of the weekly wage and in addition a rate equal to one and one-half times such ordinary hourly rate.
(c) "Journeyperson" shall mean an employee twenty years of age or over with four years experience in the industry or one who has completed his term of apprenticeship in the industry.
(d) In this award, unless the contrary appears, words importing the masculine gender shall include females.
(e) "Designer" shall mean an employee engaged solely on the designing of products and samples.
(f) "Pattern Cutter" shall mean an employee engaged on cutting patterns and samples but shall not include an employee who modifies patterns under supervision.
(g) "Sailmaker" means a person who is engaged to and is capable of designing and making sails. He/she must be capable of performing all of the following functions:
(i) Laying out and cutting of the sails
(ii) Supervise the joining and assembling of the sail, including the positioning of the batten pockets and cuts the flow to luff and leech of sail
(iii) Supervise and/or perform the work of "ticking" ropes to surround the sail
(iv) Supervise the "hand finishing" of the sail and be responsible for the final cut of the sail and shall modify the sail if necessary.
(h) "Cutter (Canvas Goods Section)" means an experienced employee who has knowledge of all types and weights of materials made and used in the trade and who is capable of laying out and cutting all types of materials or work and who can mark, prepare and supervise the machining and the finishing of the work concerned.
(i) "Union" means the Australian Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union, New South Wales Branch.
(j) "Industrial Committee" means the Saddlery, Leather, Canvas and Plastic Material Workers, &c. (State) Industrial Committee.
