AN170028 – Electrical/Electronic Trades (Public Sector) Award
‘Casual employee' means any person who is employed on a casual basis and includes any person who is employed for a period not exceeding 5 days at any one time.
‘Confined space' means a compartment or space access to which is through a manhole or similar opening, or a place the dimensions of which necessitate an employee working in a stooped or otherwise cramped position, or without proper ventilation.
‘Construction work' means work in connection with the erection, repair, maintenance and renovation of buildings or structures.
‘Electrical Fitter' means a fitter mainly engaged in making, fitting, or repairing electrical machines, instruments or appliances, who in the course of his or her work applies electrical knowledge.
‘Electrical Mechanic' means a tradesman mainly engaged on electrical installation, repair and maintenance work.
‘Electrician, special class' means an electrical fitter or electrical mechanic who is mainly engaged on complex or intricate circuitry or both, the performance of which work requires the use of "additional knowledge" as herein defined. For the purpose of this definition, "additional knowledge" means knowledge in excess of that gained by the satisfactory completion of the appropriate technical college trade course and which has been acquired by virtue of:
(i) having had not less than 2 years on-the-job experience as a tradesman working mainly on such complex or intricate circuitry work as will enable the tradesman to perform such work unsupervised where necessary and practicable; and
(ii) having, by virtue of either the satisfactory completion of a prescribed post trade course in industrial electronics or the achievement of a comparable standard of knowledge by other means including the on-the-job experience referred to in paragraph (i) hereof, gained a sufficient comprehension of such complex or intricate circuitry work as will enable the tradesman to examine, diagnose and modify systems comprising inter-connected circuits.
For the purpose of this definition the following courses are deemed to be the prescribed post trade courses in industrial electronics:
The Industrial Electronics Course of the Technical Education Department of Tasmania, or such other approved course conducted by educational institutions in other States of Australia.
‘Employee' means a person employed under the provisions of the Tasmanian State Service Act 1984.
‘Employer' means the Minister responsible for the administration of the Tasmanian State Service Act 1984.
‘Part-time employee' is one engaged to regularly work for less hours per day or week than those prescribed for full-time employees.
‘Refrigeration Mechanic or Serviceman' means an adult employee engaged on the installation, repair and maintenance work on all types of electrically operated refrigeration units.
‘Show Day' means not more than one local show day observed on an employee's ordinary working day, other than a Saturday or a Sunday, in the city, town or district in which the employee is employed; or such other day which, in the absence of such a local show day, is agreed on by the employee and the employer, therefore making a total of 11 paid public holidays per year.
‘Sunday' means all time between midnight Saturday and midnight Sunday.
‘Television/Radio Electronic Equipment Serviceman' -
Grade I:
means an adult who has completed an appropriate trades course or who has achieved an equivalent standard of skill and knowledge and who is engaged on routine servicing work which requires no more than the application of the general trade experience gained through apprenticeship or equivalent training on that work.
Grade II:
means an adult who has completed an appropriate trades course which includes instruction in colour television or who has achieved an equivalent standard of skill and knowledge through his or her experience in the industry or through a special course of tuition and is required to diagnose and rectify faults in television and radio equipment or other electronic equipment or apparatus.
‘Union' means the Electrical Trades Union of Australia, Tasmanian Branch.
