AN150011 – AWU/CFMEU Construction and Maintenance Award (South Australia) 1989
CLAUSE 37. CLOTHING AND SPECTACLES
OPDATE 01:05:99 1st pp on or after
01:08:99 1st pp on or after
01:11:99 1st pp on or after
(a) An employee whose clothes, spectacles or hearing aids have been accidentally spoilt by acid, sulphur or other deleterious substances, shall be paid such amount to cover the loss thereby suffered by him as may be agreed upon between him and his employer.
(b) An employee shall be reimbursed by his employer to a maximum of $984 (1st pp on or after 1/5/1999); $1037 (1st pp on or after 1/8/1999) and $1090 (1st pp on or after 1/11/1999) for loss of clothes by fire or breaking and entering whilst securely stored at the employer's direction in a room or building on the employer's premises, job or workshop or in a lock up.
(c) Where safety glasses are to be worn at the direction of the employer such glasses shall be provided free of charge to each employee and where it is necessary for optically prescribed glasses to be hardened, the cost of such hardening shall be met by the employer.
(d) Where an employee during the course of his employment suffers loss or damage to his spectacles by cause for which he is not solely responsible he shall be compensated by the employer to the extent of the loss or damage sustained. This subclause shall not apply when an employee is entitled to workers compensation in respect to the damage.
