AN120684 – Plumbers and Gasfitters (State) Consolidated Award
(i) Eligibility - A multi storey allowance shall be paid to all employees on site engaged in the construction of a multi storey building as defined herein, to compensate for the disabilities experienced in, and which are peculiar to the construction of a multi storey building.
(ii) Definition of Multi storey Building - For the purposes of this award, a multi storey building is a building which will, when complete, consist of five or more storey levels.
For the purposes of this clause, a storey level means structurally completed floor, walls, pillars or columns, and ceiling (not being false ceilings) of a building, and shall include basement levels and mezzanine or similar levels (but excluding "half floors" such as toilet blocks or store rooms located between floors).
(iii) Rates: Except as provided for in subclause (iv) of this clause, an allowance in accordance with the following table shall be paid to all employees on the building site. The second and subsequent allowance scales shall, where applicable, commence to apply to all employees when one of the following components of the building-structural steel, reinforcing steel boxing or walls-rises above the floor level first designated in each such allowance scale:
"Floor level" means that stage of construction which in the completed building would constitute the walking surface of the particular floor level referred to in the table of payment.
From commencement of building to fifteenth floor level - An amount as set out in Item 54 of Table 2 - Other Rates and Allowances, of Part B, Monetary Rates.
From sixteenth floor level to thirtieth floor level - An amount as set out in the said Item 54.
From thirty first floor level to forty fifth floor level - An amount as set out in the said Item 54.
From forty sixth floor level to sixtieth floor level - An amount as set out in the said Item 54.
From sixty first floor level onwards - An amount as set out in the said Item 54.
(iv) Service Cores
(a) All employees employed on a service core at more than 15 metres above the highest point of the main structure shall be paid the multi storey rate appropriate for the main structure plus the allowance prescribed in subclause (xxv), of clause 11, Special Rates, calculated from the highest point reached by the main structure to the highest point reached by the service core in any one day period (i.e., for this purpose the highest point of the main structure shall be regarded as though it were the ground in calculating the appropriate towers allowance). Employees employed on a service core no higher than 15 metres above the main structure shall be paid in accordance with the multi storey allowance prescribed herein.
(b) Provided that any section of a service core exceeding 15 metres above the highest point of the main structure shall be disregarded for the purpose of calculating the multi storey allowance applicable to the main structure.
(v) Completion Point of Allowance: Payment of the allowance shall cease when the walls are completed and the employees are working under cover and the lifts or passenger/material hoists are available to employees: Provided that the exclusion of odd wall panels, sections or windows for the purposes of entrance or exit of materials or the anchoring of cranes, external lifting devices or scaffolding shall not prevent the walls of a building being defined as completed.
