AP792378CRV - Pastoral Industry Award 1998
22.1 Shearers and Crutchers
[22.1 substituted by R9225 ppc 06Sep99]
22.1.1 The ordinary hours of work for shearers and crutches shall be 40 per week, Monday – Friday. The hours shall not exceed 8 per day and will be worked in 2 hour groupings called runs. The ordinary run times are Monday-Friday:
7.30 am - 9.30 am
10.00 am - 12.00 pm
1.00 pm - 3.00 pm
3.30 pm - 5.30 pm
22.1.2 This clause shall be read subject to the provisions of clause 22.2 hereof and the following:
22.1.3 Circumstances for which alteration to the starting time in accordance with clause 22.1.2 may be made are limited to:
22.1.4 The entitlements in this clause shall be non-cumulative.
22.2 The restriction on working eight hours shall not apply:
22.2.1 where the tail end of a mob of ewes with lambs or unweaned lambs are in the pens at 5.30 p.m. on Friday awaiting shearing (or crutching) the shearing (or crutching) may, at the option of the employer, be continued for not more than half an hour, but so far only as may be necessary for the purpose of shearing (or crutching) the said ewes and/or lambs;
22.2.2 if not more than three sheep per shearer/crutcher are left in the pens at 5.30 p.m. on Friday they may, at the option of the employer, be shorn (or crutched) then for the purpose of cutting out a particular flock;
[22.2.3 substituted by R9225 ppc 06Sep99]
22.2.3 If on the day of the cut-out, there remains in the pens after the last run of the day, such number of sheep as could be ordinarily shorn (or crutched) in 60 minutes, the shearing (or crutching), at the option of the employer, may be continued until such sheep are shorn (or crutched). If the option of the employer is taken and work time exceeds 30 minutes, all time workers shall receive an additional 2 hours (1 run) payment.
22.3 Special conditions regarding the hours of work of shearers and crutchers
[22.3.1 corrected by Q6829 from 29Jun98]
22.3.1 Where a shearer or crutcher has not completed 40 hours work during the preceding week, or 8 hours per day if the shearing commenced later in the week, by reason of the fact that, pursuant to clause 24.3.1 of this award, sheep presented for shearing or crutching are voted wet or sheep are not presented for shearing or crutching because of rain or sweating, a shearer or crutcher may be required by the employer to work on the Saturday and/or Sunday immediately succeeding the week in which work could not be performed for the aforesaid reasons only provided that:
[22.3.2 deleted by R9225 ppc 06Sep99]
[22.3.3 renumbered as 22.3.2 by R9225 ppc 06Sep99]
22.3.2 Any work performed on a Saturday or a Sunday pursuant to this subclause must be performed in accordance with the run schedules prescribed for work during the week;
[22.3.4 renumbered as 22.3.3 by R9225 ppc 06Sep99]
22.3.3 Any work performed on a weekend pursuant to this subclause must be performed from the commencement of the first available run after the condition of the sheep permit their shearing or crutching except that by agreement between the employer and the employee another or other mutually convenient run or runs available on that weekend may be substituted;
[22.3.5 renumbered as 22.3.4 by R9225 ppc 06Sep99]
22.3.4 Such work on Saturday and/or Sunday will only replace the time lost during the preceding week;
[22.3.6 renumbered as 22.3.5 by R9225 ppc 06Sep99]
22.3.5 Reasonable notice of the need to work on the weekend shall be given.
[22.3.7 renumbered as 22.3.6 by R9225 ppc 06Sep99]
22.3.6 A signal shall be given three minutes (one minute in the case of crutching) before the end of each run and no shearer (or crutcher) shall catch another sheep during that run after such signal has been given.
[22.3.8 renumbered as 22.3.7 by R9225 ppc 06Sep99]
22.3.7 The employee shall finish the shearing (or crutching) of any sheep he or she is shearing (or crutching) at the end of each run.
[22.3.8 inserted by PR924413 ppc 31Oct02]
22.3.8 That the employer and the employee will record and retain at the appropriate place of employment a written record in the tally book (clause 30) when make-up time is worked, if sheep are determined wet during the normal course of shearing in the preceding Monday to Friday.
The tally book will show those employees who worked make-up time, the date of the work and the number of runs worked during the weekend. The employer shall retained this written record for a period of not less than six (6) years.
22.4 Shed Hands and Woolpresser-Shed Hands
22.4.1 The working hours of a shed hand or of a woolpresser and shed hand (combined duties) shall be the same as the working hours of the shearers or crutchers. However, such additional time each day as may be necessary to finish the picking up, the rolling of fleeces, the picking of the pieces on the tables and to sweep the floor of the shed and such additional time after the cessation of shearing or crutching on Friday and on the day of the cut-out as may be necessary to do the work just described and to wash down the floor of the shed and the wool tables and to put away any wool that is underneath and in addition in the case of woolpresser and shed hand (combined duties) such additional time as may be necessary on the day of the cut-out to finish the pressing.
22.4.2 If on any day, except the day of the cut-out, the additional time exceeds a total of thirty minutes, the whole of the additional time on that day shall be treated as overtime.
22.4.3 Overtime shall be paid for at the rate of time-and-a-half.
22.4.4 Penners-up shall work without overtime payment such a time additional to the working hours of the shearers or crutchers as may be necessary to keep the shearers or crutchers supplied with sheep.
22.5 Time work woolpresser
22.5.1 The ordinary working hours of a time work woolpresser shall be the same as the working hours of the shearers or crutchers with such additional time on the day of the cut-out as may be necessary to finish the pressing.
22.5.2 For any time worked in excess of ordinary working hours payment shall be made at the rate of time-and-a-half.
22.6 Woolpresser on piecework working after hours
Notwithstanding anything contained in this award woolpressers on piecework shall be permitted to work such additional hours as may be necessary to keep the shed clear from wool.
