AN170028 – Electrical/Electronic Trades (Public Sector) Award
In addition to the rates prescribed in Clause 8, the following special rates and allowances shall be paid:
(a) Boiling Down Works
Working in boiling down works - 19.5 cents per hour extra.
(b) Cold Places
Working for more than one hour in places where the temperature is reduced by artificial means below zero degrees Celsius - 30 cents per hour extra. Where the work continues for more than 2 hours, employees shall be entitled to a rest period of 20 minutes every 2 hours without loss of pay.
(c) Confined Spaces
Working in confined spaces (as defined) - 41 cents per hour extra.
(d) Dirty Work
Work which a foreman and employee shall agree is of an unusually dirty and offensive nature - 41 cents per hour extra.
In the case of disagreement between the foreman and the employee, the employee or a shop steward on the employee's behalf shall be entitled, within 48 hours, to ask for a decision on the employee's claim by the employer (unless the time expires on a non-working day, in which case it shall be given during the next working day), or else the said allowance shall be paid.
(e) Explosive Powered Tools
Employees required to use explosive powered tools shall be paid 11 cents per hour extra, with a minimum payment of 83 cents per day.
(f) Hot Places
Working for more than one hour in the shade in places where the temperature is raised by artificial means to between 46.1 degrees and 54.4 degrees Celsius, 30 cents per hour extra; in places where the temperature exceeds 54.4 degrees Celsius - 41 cents per hour extra with a minimum payment of 28 cents per day. Where work continues for more than 2 hours in temperatures exceeding 54.4 degrees Celsius, employees shall also be entitled to 20 minutes' rest after every 2 hours work without deduction of pay. The temperature shall be decided by the foreman of the work after consulting with the employees who claim the extra rate.
(g) Height Money
Electrical tradesmen and their assistants engaged in the erection, repair and/or maintenance of radar or electrical equipment on masts or ships or other structures at a height of 15.2 metres or more directly above the nearest horizontal place shall be paid at the rate of 20 cents per hour extra.
(h) Slag Wool
Employees handling loose slag wool, loose insulwool or other loose material of a like nature used for providing insulation against heat, cold or noise, shall, when so employed on ship construction or ship repairing or on the construction, repair or demolition of furneces, walls, floors and/or ceilings, be paid 41 cents per hour extra.
(i) Slaughtering Yards
Working in slaughtering yards, 20 cents per hour extra.
(j) Smoke Boxes, etc.
Working on repairs to smoke boxes or fire boxes of locomotives or on repairs to the smokeboxes, uptake, funnel, flue, furnace or combustion chamber of marine type boilers, or on repairs to smokeboxes, fireboxes, furnaces or flues of other types of boilers, 20 cents per hour extra.
PROVIDED THAT an employee engaged on repairs to oil boilers, including the casings, uptakes, and funnels or flues and smoke stacks, shall, while working inside such boiler, be paid 83 cents per hour extra.
(k) Underground Mine Work
Electricians working underground in mines or tunnels shall be paid 12% extra.
(l) Wet Places
An employee working in any place where his or her clothing or boots become saturated, whether by water, oil or otherwise shall be paid 30 cents per hour extra; provided that this extra rate shall not be payable to an employee who is provided by the employer with suitable and effective protective clothing and/or footwear. And provided further that any employee who becomes entitled to this extra rate shall be paid such extra rate for such part of the day or shift as he or she is required to work in wet clothing or boots.
(m) Special Rates Not Cumulative
Where more than one of the disabilities entitling an employee to extra rates exist on the same job the employer shall be bound to pay only one rate, namely the highest for the disabilities so prevailing.
