AN170010 – Building and Construction Industry Award

PART IV – ALLOWANCES 

20. INDUSTRY ALLOWANCE

In addition to the rates prescribed in Clause 13 – Wage Rates of this award an employee shall be paid an allowance at the rate of $21.70 per week to compensate for the following disabilities associated with building and construction work:

(a) climatic conditions when working in the open on all types of work;

(b) the physical disadvantage of having to climb stairs or ladders;

(c) the disability of dust blowing in the wind, brick dust and drippings from newly poured concrete;

(d) sloppy and muddy conditions associated with the initial stages of the erection of a building;

(e) the disability of working on all types of scaffolds or ladders other than a swing scaffold, suspended scaffold, or a bosuns chair;

(f) the lack of the usual amenities associated with factory work, (e.g. meal rooms, change rooms, lockers);

(g) the disabilities generally associated with civil construction and maintenance work.