AN170120 – Metal and Engineering Industry Award
In addition to the wages prescribed in Part III - WAGES AND RELATED MATTERS, Clause 1 – Wage Rates, the following special rates and allowances shall be paid to all employees, including apprentices and unapprenticed juniors.
(a) Boiling Down Works
Working in boiling down works - $0.32 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, $0.42 per hour extra. Where the work continues for more than two hours, employees shall be entitled to a rest period of 20 minutes every two hours without loss of pay.
(c) Confined Spaces
'Confined space' means a compartment, place or space the dimensions of which necessitates an employee working in a stooped or otherwise cramped position, or without proper ventilation and includes such a space:
(i) in the case of a ship, inside complete tanks, chain lockers and peaks, in the bilges under engine beds, under engine room and stokehold floors, or under or inside boilers;
(ii) in the case of a locomotive, inside the barrels of boilers, fire-boxes, water spaces of tenders, side tanks, bunker tanks, saddle tanks, or smoke boxes;
(iii) in other cases, inside boilers, steam drums, mud drums, fire boxes or vertical or road vehicle boilers, furnaces, flues, combustion chambers, receivers, buoys, tanks, superheaters, or economisers.
Working in confined spaces, $0.56 per hour extra.
(d) Dirty Work
Work which a supervisor and worker shall agree is of an unusually dirty or offensive nature, $0.42 per hour extra.
Ship repair work which a supervisor and worker shall agree is of an unusually dirty or offensive nature, $0.56 per hour extra.
Any dispute arising under this subclause as to whether the work is of an unusually dirty or offensive nature shall be referred to the Tasmanian Industrial Commission for determination.
(e) First Aid Allowance
An employee who has been trained to render first aid and who is the current holder of appropriate first aid qualifications such as a Certificate from the St John’s Ambulance or similar body shall be paid a weekly allowance of $11.50 if appointed by their employer to perform first aid duty.
(f) Height Money
Boilermakers and welders and their assistants and drillers engaged in the erection, repair and/or maintenance of steel frame buildings, bridges, gasometers and similar structures at a height of 15 metres or more directly above the nearest horizontal plane shall be paid at the rate of $0.32 per hour extra.
(g) Hot Places
Working for more than one hour in the shade in places where the temperature is raised by artificial means to between 46 degrees and 54 degrees Celsius, $0.42 per hour extra; in places where the temperature exceeds 54 degrees Celsius, $0.56 per hour extra. When work continues for more than two hours in temperatures exceeding 54 degrees Celsius, employees shall also be entitled to 20 minutes' rest after every two hours' work without deduction of pay. The temperature shall be decided by the supervisor of the work after consulting with the employees who claim the extra rate.
(h) Lead Works
Working in lead works, $0.32 per hour extra.
(i) Lignum Vitae
Patternmaker in lignum vitae outside the workshop and fitting to stern bushes, $0.56 per hour extra.
(j) Meat Digesters and Oil Tanks
Working on repairs in oil tanks or meat digesters, $0.42 per hour extra.
PROVIDED that if any employee is so engaged for more than half of one day or shift payment shall be made at the prescribed allowance for the whole day or shift.
(k) Sanitary Works
Working in sanitary works, $0.31 per hour extra.
(l) Ship Repairs
Employees engaged on ship repairs shall be paid the following additional amount per week:
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Tradesperson per week extra |
11.50 |
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All other labourers per week extra |
9.20 |
(m) 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 furnaces, walls, floors and/or ceilings, be paid $0.56 per hour extra.
(n) Slaughtering Yards
Working in slaughtering yards, $0.32 per hour extra.
(o) Smoke Boxes, etc.
Working on repairs to smoke boxes or fire-boxes of locomotives or on repairs to the smoke box uptake funnel, flue, furnace or combustion chamber of marine-type boilers, or on repairs to smoke boxes, fire-boxes, furnace or flue of other types of boilers, $0.32 per hour extra.
PROVIDED that an employee engaged on repairs to oil-fired boilers, including the casings, uptakes, and funnels or flues and smoke stacks, shall, while working inside such boiler, be paid $1.14 per hour extra.
(p) Wet Places
An employee working in any place where their clothing or boots become saturated, whether by water, oil or otherwise shall be paid $0.42 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.
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 the employee is required to work in wet clothing or boots.
(q) Explosive Powered Tools
Employees required to use explosive powered tools shall be paid 0.10 cents per hour extra, with a minimum payment of $1.15 per day.
(r) Foundry Allowances
(i) employees engaged on foundry work as herein defined shall be paid a disability allowance of $0.33 for each hour worked to compensate for all disabilities associated with foundry work;
(ii) PROVIDED that where an apprentice is, for a period of half a day or longer, away from the foundry for the purpose of receiving tuition the amount of 'foundry allowance' paid shall be decreased proportionately;
(iii) the allowance herein prescribed shall be in lieu of any payment otherwise prescribed in this clause;
(iv) for the purpose of this subclause ‘foundry work’ shall mean:
(1) any operation in the production of castings by casting metal in moulds made of sand, loam, metal, moulding composition or other material or mixture of materials, or by shell moulding centrifugal casting or continuous casting; and
(2) where carried on as an incidental process in connection with and in the course of production to which subparagraph (1) of this definition applies, the preparation of moulds and cores (but not in making of patterns or dies in a separate room), knock out processes and dressing operations.
(s) Special Rates not Cumulative
Where more than one of the disabilities entitling a worker 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.
(t) Rates not Subject to Penalty Additions
The special rates herein prescribed shall be paid irrespective of the times at which the work is performed, and shall not be subject to any premium or penalty additions.
