AN170028 – Electrical/Electronic Trades (Public Sector) Award
(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, when complete, consists of not less than five storey levels.
(c) For the purpose of this clause, a storey level means structurally completed floor, walls, 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: structural steel, reinforcing steel, boxing or walls rise above the 4th floor level. Such payments shall be increased to the appropriate amounts as shown in the table when the structural steel, reinforcing steel or walls reach such designated level.
(e) The commencing point of measurement shall be the lowest main floor level (including basement floor levels but excluding lift wells and shafts of the building).
‘Floor level' means that stage of construction which, in the completed building, would constitute the walking surface of the particular floor level referred to in the table payment.
(f) From the 4th floor level to the 10th floor level - 20 cents per hour extra.
From the 11th floor level to the 15th floor level - 23 cents per hour extra.
From the 16th floor level to the 20th floor level - 30 cents per hour extra.
From the 21st floor level to the 25th floor level - 33.5 cents per hour extra.
From the 26th floor level to the 30th floor level - 41 cents per hour extra.
From the 31st floor level to the 40th floor level - 46 cents per hour extra.
From the 41st floor level to the 50th floor level - 51 cents per hour extra.
From the 51st floor level to the 60th floor level - 58 cents per hour extra.
From the 61st floor level onwards - 63.5 cents 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 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 advanced part of the main structure all employees engaged on the service core shall be paid the appropriate special rate set out in subclause (i) of this clause applicable to the height to which the core has progressed in lieu of the multi-storey allowance prescribed by this subclause. When 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 everyday 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 days work.
(i) The service core rates shall be:
where the service core exceeds 15 metres in height - 23 cents per hour with 23 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.
