AN140103 – Electrical Contracting Industry Award - State 2003
In addition to the above rates of wages the following allowances shall be paid. Where appropriate these allowances shall form part of the ordinary weekly wage for all purposes of the award (e.g. overtime, sick pay, annual leave, statutory holidays etc.).
5.8.1 Construction, reconstruction, alteration, repair and/or maintenance work
In addition to the rates prescribed by this Award, an employee working on "building construction work" (as defined herein), or "reconstruction, alteration, repair and/or maintenance work" (as defined herein), shall be paid $21.30 all purpose per week which shall be treated as part of the ordinary weekly wage for the purposes of this Award to compensate for the following disabilities:
(a) Climatic conditions when working in the open on all types of work;
(b) The physical disadvantages of having to climb stairs or ladders;
(c) Dust blowing in the wind on building sites;
(d) Sloppy and muddy conditions associated with the initial stages of the erection of the building;
(e) Dirty conditions caused by the use of form oil or from green timber;
(f) Drippings from newly poured concrete;
(g) The disability of working on all types of scaffolds other than a single plank swing scaffold or a bosun's chair;
(h) The lack of the usual amenities associated with factory work (e.g. recreational facilities, sanitary conveniences, etc.); and
(i) All other present disabilities not specifically compensated or allowed for by any other provision of this Award.
5.8.2 Building construction work
For the purposes of clause 5.8.2, building construction work shall be deemed to include all electrical work carried out during the construction of new buildings, the construction of additions to existing buildings and the necessary alterations to existing buildings to make them conform to any new additions and the demolition of buildings.
5.8.3 Civil and mechanical engineering structures
Employees working "on site" on structures which are primarily civil or mechanical engineering structures or installations such as power stations, grain elevators, and silos, oil refineries, wharves, jetties, piers, bridges, overpasses, underpasses, pipelines, water storage towers, sewerage construction work, dams, barrages, weirs or similar structures, traffic islands and concrete ornamental lakes and land reclamation and/or land clearing associated with estate development and building construction shall be paid the allowance as provided in clause 5.8.1 and shall be subject to the same proviso as contained therein.
5.8.4 Reconstruction, alteration, repair and/or maintenance work
For the purposes of this Award shall mean and include all electrical work performed on site in the reconstruction, alteration, repair and/or maintenance of wharves, jetties, piers, bridges, overpasses, underpasses, pipelines, water storage towers, sewerage construction work, dams, barrages, weirs, or similar structures, traffic islands and concrete ornamental lakes and land reclamation:
Provided that this definition shall not, in relation to dams, weirs and barrages include the following classes of work:
(a) Operation of dam, weir or barrages;
(b) Construction or maintenance of tourist facilities.
5.8.5 Emergency work
Employees called out on emergency work shall be entitled to payment for such work from the time of leaving home to commence that work until they return home from such work, but they must return home within a reasonable time, and payment shall be calculated accordingly, but such payment shall not be less than 3 hours wages at ordinary rates.
5.8.6 First aid person
When an employee, who holds an appropriate First Aid Certificate is appointed by the employer as a First Aid Attendant they shall be paid at the rate of $11.70 per week, in addition to their ordinary rates.
5.8.7 Foreperson
(a) |
Grade 1 |
Shall receive in addition to all other amounts due an additional all purpose amount of $56.50 per week. |
(b) |
Grade 2 |
Shall receive in addition to all other amounts due an additional all purpose amount of $85.00 per week. |
5.8.8 Height money
Employees, other than linespersons and their assistants, required to perform work at a height from 15.25 metres to 22.87 metres from the ground or low-water level or nearest horizontal plane shall be paid at the rate of $11.10 per week extra.
Employees required to perform work at a height of over 22.87 metres from the ground or low-water level or nearest horizontal plane shall be paid at the rate of $16.70 per week extra.
5.8.9 Leading hand
In addition to the wages prescribed by this Award, Leading Hands shall be paid $29.80 per week where these employees are employed for not less than 38 hours per week inclusive of statutory holidays and $5.90 per day when required to work less than 38 hours.
This additional payment shall be regarded as part of the wage of the employee concerned and shall be taken into consideration in the computation of overtime, payment for annual leave, sick leave, statutory holidays, weekend work etc.
5.8.10 Live sewer work
Tradespersons and their assistants engaged on live sewer work shall be paid at the rate of time and a half for such work.
For this purpose "live sewer work" shall mean work carried out in situations where there is direct aerial connection with a sewer, through which sewerage is flowing. The term shall include mechanical and electrical equipment installed in association with any such sewer or sewerage pumping station or treatment works, but shall not apply to routine maintenance which does not require the dismantling of pumps etc. The term shall also include a minimum payment of one hour for work on pumps after removal from a pumping station or treatment works for cleaning or stripping.
Where aerial connection with a sewer is blocked by a disc, plug, valve, water seal or other means, the live sewer rate shall not apply.
Employees who are, on any day, required to carry out work in connection with the release of blockages in sewerage lines and connections thereto (including pumps) shall be paid not less than 4 hours at time and a half during ordinary hours or at the appropriate rate for overtime. All times involved in travelling to and form such operations shall be deemed to be time worked for this purpose:
Provided that clause 5.8.1 "Construction, Reconstruction, Alteration, Repair and/or Maintenance Work" shall not apply when employees are engaged on live sewer work.
5.8.11 Mobility allowance
An additional all purpose allowance at the rate of $16.30 per week shall be paid to employees who are required to work away from the employer's workshop or recognised place of business:
Provided that any employee who works away from the employer's workshop or recognised place of business, on any day or part thereof, shall receive a minimum payment of an equivalent of 8 hours of this allowance.
5.8.12 Motor vehicles drawing trailers
Employees driving a motor vehicle to which a trailer is attached shall be paid in addition to the rates prescribed herein the extra applicable amount set out hereunder:
(a) |
$1.69 per day when drawing a loaded single axle trailer |
(b) |
96c per day when drawing an empty single axle trailer |
(c) |
$2.19 per day when drawing a loaded trailer with more than one axle |
(d) |
$1.24 per day when drawing an empty trailer with more than one axle |
Provided that:
(i) When in any day an employee drives a motor vehicle drawing an empty and a loaded trailer they shall be paid for that day the extra rate applicable for such loaded trailer.
(ii) Not more than one trailer shall be attached and drawn at any one time.
(iii) The extra payment prescribed herein shall not apply to employees driving articulated vehicles or machinery floats and/or low loaders.
(iv) These allowances shall apply only in respect of the drawing of trailers having a loading capacity in excess of .508 tonnes.
(v) The term "trailer" does not include caravans, compressors, concrete mixers, welding plants and road brooms.
For motor vehicles drawing caravans, compressors, concrete mixers or welding plants - An employee driving a motor vehicle to which any of the following is attached. viz.: caravan, compressor, concrete mixer or welding plant, shall be paid at the rate of 17c per hour or part thereof whilst so engaged, in addition to their rate of wages prescribed herein.
5.8.13 Multi-storey allowance
(a) A multi-storey allowance shall be paid to compensate employees, engaged on construction on-site, for the disabilities experienced in, and which are peculiar to the construction of multi-storey buildings.
(b) For the purpose of this Award a multi-storey building is a building which will, when complete, consist of not less than 5 storey levels.
(c) For the purpose of clause 5.8.13, a storey level means structurally completed floor, 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).
(d) A multi-storey allowance in accordance with the table set out below shall be payable to all employees engaged on construction on-site when one of the following components of the building:
(i) Structural Steel;
(ii) Reinforcing Steel;
(iii) Boxing or Walls;
rises above the 4th floor level. Such payment shall be increased to the appropriate amounts as shown in the table, when the structural steel, reinforcing steel, boxing or walls reach such designated level.
(e) The commencing point of measurement shall be the lowest main floor (including basement floor levels but excluding lift walls and shafts of the building). "Floor level" means that state of construction which, in the completed building, would constitute the walking surface of the particular floor level referred to in the table of payment.
(f) Multi-storey Rate - For work on the construction of multi-storeyed buildings the following shall apply:
From commencement of building to fifteenth (15) floor level - 39.2c per hour extra;
From sixteenth (16) floor level to thirtieth (30) floor level - 48.35c per hour extra;
From thirty-first (31) floor level to forty-fifth (45) floor level - 71.9c per hour extra;
From forty-sixth (46) floor level to sixtieth (60) floor level - 94.15c per hour extra;
From sixty-first (61) floor level onwards - $1.1755 per hour extra.
(g) 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 purpose 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.
(h) Service core - When a Service core is scheduled separately and erected as an advance part of the main structure, all employees engaged on the Service core shall be paid the appropriate special rate, set out in clause 5.8.13(i), applicable to the height to which the core has progressed in lieu of the multi-storey allowance prescribed by clause 5.8.13(f).
Where work on the Service core does not proceed for a full day, employees shall be paid at the appropriate rate for the actual hours worked:
Provided that on each and every day when work on the Service core proceeds for at least 8 hours employees engaged on the Service core will be paid for a minimum of 8 hours at the appropriate rate, irrespective of the hours an individual employee may work on the Service core on any day as part of their day's work.
(i) The Service core rates shall be:
Where the Service core exceeds 15 metres in height - 19.6 cents per hour with 31.35 cents per hour additional for work above each further 15 metres:
Provided that the Service core allowance and the multi-storey allowance shall not be cumulative.
5.8.14 Nominee's allowance
Any Electrical Mechanics who hold the qualifications eligible to be granted an Electrical Contractors' Licence, may be named as a nominee to an Electrical Contracting Company.
Where that nominee is required to fulfil the role of endorsee to the Electrical Contracting Company and sign the appropriate paperwork, an all purpose rate payment at the rate of $53.50 per week or $10.68 per day shall be paid.
5.8.15 Tool allowance
(a) Employees who possess the minimum tool list as agreed, and supply and use their own tools in the course of their work, shall be paid the Tool Allowance applicable hereunder:
Per Week | |
$ | |
Electrical Fitters and Electrical Mechanics |
22.70 |
Automotive electricians, Radio Mechanics, Television Mechanics |
17.00 |
Jointers and Linespersons |
13.40 |
Minimum Tool List for an Electrical Mechanic:
1. Tool Box and Lock.
2. 8 various screwdrivers (at least one insulated and one phillips head).
3. Side Cutters/Knife.
4. Combination Pliers.
5. 2 Adjustable Wrenches, Small/Large.
6. Punch set.
7. Steel Rule/Steel Tape.
8. Spanners. (Metric). Set of 6 0/ring combination.
9. Multi Grips/Vice Grips.
10. Hammer.
11. Cold Chisel.
12. Hand Crimping Tool. (Similar to Utilux 00).
13. Combination Square.
14. Counter Sink Bit.
15. Wood Chisel.
16. Level.
17. Auger Bit.
18. Battery Operated Drill.
19. Gas Bottle (.79kg).
20. Hacksaw.
Variations to the above list may be agreed to between the parties.
All precision tools over 30 centimetres in length, files, and hacksaw blades, hand saws, heating appliances, stocks and dies, and pipe grips (over 25 centimetres in length) required in the fitting and repairs shop or in connection with work outside the shop shall be provided by the employer.
(b) All employees shall be allowed such reasonable time as the employer deems necessary during working hours on the last working day of each week to put their tools, benches and machines in order.
(c) Storage of Tools:
Suitable accommodation shall be provided for the preservation of the employee's tools and clothing.
(d) An electrical worker, whilst engaged on a construction site where they are unable to arrange suitable free storage accommodation for their tools, shall be provided with same by the employer.
(e) Provided further that, where an employee is absent from work because of illness or accident occurring during working hours, the employer shall ensure that the employee's tools are either transported to the employer's premises or are securely stored during their absence.
(f) Compensation for Loss of Tools:
(i) An employer shall on behalf on their employees replace tools lost by breaking and entering whilst securely stored at the employer's direction in a site shed, building, workshop or lockup on major construction sites to a maximum trade value of $500.00.
(ii) Provided that clause 5.8.15(f) shall not apply if the employer has requested the employee to supply a list of tools kept on the job and the employee has not supplied such a list.
(iii) Provided further that the matter is reported to the police.
5.8.16 Tradespersons allowance
(a) Persons who hold an Electrical Mechanics Certificate issued by the Electrical Workers' and Contractors' Board, or its equivalent, shall be paid an additional all-purpose amount of $22.70 per week, for each week of their employment. Such payment is in recognition of the additional responsibilities assumed by such Tradespersons, for testing and connecting their own work, due to changes in the Electricity Act and Regulations which took effect from 1 May 1989, and from 1 July 1989, and which have specific relevance to the Electrical Contracting Industry.
(b) The Allowance contained in clause 5.8.16(a), shall not apply in whole or in part to any person, until that person completes an apprenticeship or other equivalent training course.
5.8.17 Allowances - special sites
Additional Payment - Construction Workers - Weipa - In addition to all payments otherwise due, all employees employed on or in connection with construction work in the Weipa area shall be paid an amount of $49.20 per week of 38 hours which shall be taken into consideration for the purposes of calculating annual leave, statutory holidays, sick pay and long service leave payments:
This additional amount of $49.20 per week of 38 hours shall form part of the weekly wage in the calculation of overtime payments, annual leave pay, public holiday pay, sick pay and long service leave pay.
5.8.18 Travelling allowance and accommodation - special sites
(a) Accommodation - Weipa Area - In substitution for those provisions contained in this Award relating to board, lodgings, and accommodation, employees employed on Construction Work in the Weipa area, and who are required either by direction of the employer or by reason of the distance from their homes to reside in accommodation provided by the employer shall be provided by the employer with board and accommodation free of charge and without deduction from the employees' wages:
Provided that the board and accommodation supplied by the employer in accordance with clause 5.8.18 shall be of a reasonably good and sufficient standard.
(b) Travelling Time - Construction Workers - Weipa - In lieu of the provisions elsewhere contained for fares the following provisions shall apply to employees engaged on construction work in the Weipa area:
(i) Except in the case of employees who are normally resident in Weipa or whose first enquiry for employment is made in person at Weipa, employees shall have their air fares provided by the employer when travelling to Weipa to start work
Upon termination of employment for other than serious misconduct, such employees shall be paid the equivalent of return air fares from Weipa to the point of engagement: Provided that, except in the case of employees who leave their employment for legitimate compassionate reasons, such employees continue to carry out their duties to the completion of the work for which they are engaged or for a period of at least 8 weeks.
(ii) Employees entitled to the provisions of (a) above shall also be entitled to leave without pay as agreed between the employer and employee and free air fares from Weipa to Cairns and return after the first 8 weeks of employment: Provided such air fares are availed of and employment at Weipa continues thereafter.
The employee subject to a mutual arrangement with the employer, can nominate to take such leave at any time during the 4 weeks following the date of entitlement without affecting their future entitlement which shall occur every 8 weeks from the date of their original entitlement.
5.8.19 Underground work
Employees provided for in this Award who are employed at or in connection with mines, shall be paid, for working underground, 12 per cent more than the rate as specified in clause 5.4.1 (Employees Wages).
