AN140317 – Woolclassers and Sheep Shearing Machine Experts and Grinders' Award - State 2003
1.5.1 The "Act" means the Industrial Relations Act 1999 as amended or replaced from time to time.
1.5.2 "Commission" means the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission.
1.5.3 "Shearing Shed Expert" means an employee who is competent to perform experting duties at a shearing shed in accordance with the requirement of the employer or representative (such requirements to be specified at the time of engagement). The duties shall include attending to the shearing shed machinery, engine driving and the grinding of combs and cutters.
1.5.4 "Trainee Wool Classer" means an employee who is not a Woolclasser as defined but who has completed the first year's course in woolclassing at a recognised technical college with a view to becoming a qualified Woolclasser in charge of woolclassing operations and is employed in a shed where more than 2,000 but not less than 4,000 sheep are shorn at the one shearing.
1.5.5 "Union" means The Australian Workers' Union of Employees, Queensland.
1.5.6 "Woolclasser" means:
(a) any person who can give proof of not less than 3 seasons experience as a practical wool-classer in shearing sheds; or
(b) any person who can give proof of not less than 3 years practical experience as a wool sorter and one season's experience as a practical Woolclasser in shearing sheds;
1.5.7 A Woolclasser who performs the additional duty of Shearing Shed Experting at the one shearing shall, for the purposes of this Award, be deemed to be employed as a Woolclasser and not as an expert.
