AN170054 – Laundry and Dry Cleaning Award
APPENDIX TO LAUNDRY AND DRY CLEANING AWARD
1. ARRANGEMENT
Clause Number | |
Arrangement |
1 |
Definitions |
2 |
Fund |
3 |
Eligibility for Membership |
4 |
Employer Contributions |
5 |
Employee Contributions |
6 |
Cessation of Contributions |
7 |
Exemptions |
8 |
2. DEFINITIONS
(a) ‘Approved Fund' means a superannuation fund which is established in accordance with the Operational Standards for Occupational Superannuation Schemes and has received preliminary listing from the office of the Occupational Superannuation Commissioner - Interim Group.
(b) ‘Eligible Employee' means a full-time, part-time or casual employee who is employed under a classification of the Laundrymens Award and who has completed six calendar weeks service with the employer.
(c) ‘Employer' means an employer bound by the terms of the Laundrymens Award.
(d) ‘Ordinary Time Earnings' means the award classification rate, overaward payments and shift loadings (where relevant).
(e) ‘Tasplan' means the Tasplan Fund established by Trust Deed and Articles on 24 March 1987.
(f) ‘Union' means the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union - Tasmanian Branch; the Federated Engine Driver's and Firemen's Association of Australasia, Tasmanian Branch; and the Transport Workers' Union of Australia, Tasmanian Branch.
3. FUND
(a) For the purpose of this award contributions made by the employer in accordance with the provisions of Clause 5 - Employer Contributions, shall be paid to the Treasurer of Tasplan.
(b) An employer bound by this Appendix shall become party to Tasplan upon the acceptance of the Trustees of that scheme, of an application to become a participating employer of Tasplan, duly signed and executed by that employer.
4. ELIGIBILITY FOR MEMBERSHIP
(a) An employee shall become eligible for membership of the approved Superannuation Fund on the first entry date which occurs after the employee has completed six calendar weeks continuous service with the employer. The employee having completed the six weeks waiting period shall be eligible to have contributions paid to the Fund subject to Clause 5 - Employer Contributions, from the date of engagement with the employer.
(b) An employee shall be enrolled in the approved Superannuation Fund upon the acceptance of the Administrator of the Fund of a membership application form and shall be deemed to be a member of the scheme from his or her entry date as prescribed in subclause (a) herein.
(c) Notwithstanding the provisions contained in subclause (a) and (b) herein, an employee who is a member of an Approved Fund and was having contributions paid in accordance with this Appendix at his or her previous place of employment shall continue to have contributions paid on his or her behalf from the date of commencing employment with the current employer.
5. EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTIONS
(a) Subject to the rules of the Fund, and subclause (c) herein, an employer shall contribute to the Fund in respect of each employee who is a member of the Fund an amount at the rate of nine per cent of ordinary time earnings for each complete week employed. This calculation shall be based on the ordinary time worked by an employee in any week and shall exclude work performed and paid as overtime.
(b) Subject to subclause (a) herein an eligible employee shall have a minimum contribution per week paid into the Fund of $1.30.
(c) Contributions to the fund shall be made by the employer on at least a calendar monthly basis unless there are circumstances for which the employer cannot be held responsible.
(d) An employer shall not be required to contribute during any periods of unpaid leave. Furthermore, an employer shall not be required to make additional contributions in respect of annual leave paid out on termination.
(e) Pro rata deduction shall be made from the weekly contribution payable for any unauthorised absence of at least one day's duration.
6. EMPLOYEE CONTRIBUTIONS
Subject to the rules of the Fund, employees who may wish to make contributions to the Fund additional to those being paid pursuant to Clause 5 - Employer Contributions - herein, shall be so entitled. Such employees may either forward their own contribution directly to the Fund Administrators or, where it is practicable to do so, authorise the employer to pay into the Fund from the employees' wages, amounts specified by the employer subject to the amount of contribution being expressed in whole dollars and any adjustment to the level of contribution being subject to 3 months notice in writing from the employee to the employer or such lesser period as they may both otherwise agree.
7. CESSATION OF CONTRIBUTIONS
An employee's eligibility for contributions to the Fund will cease on the last day of employment with the employer and the employer shall not make any contributions to the Fund in respect of any period beyond that last day of employment.
8. EXEMPTIONS
For the purpose of this award the following companies have been determined to be exempted from the use of Tasplan and shall contribute to the "Approved Fund" so nominated:
Company |
Approved Fund |
Daisy Fresh Dry Cleaners |
The Employee Retirement Plan |
Lukes Coastal Laundry |
Australian Retirement Fund |
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