AP792378CRV - Pastoral Industry Award 1998
24. SPECIAL CONDITIONS RELATING TO SHED EMPLOYEES
24.1 Mess And Cook
[24.1.1 deleted by R9225 ppc 06Sep99]
[24.1.2 renumbered as 24.1 by R9225 ppc 06Sep99]
Where a mess is established for Found employees, Not Found employees may, with the approval of the employer join the mess and provide their own food and related items (Joint Mess). The employer shall, however, have the right to supply a sufficient quantity of food to start the mess, such food to be paid for by the persons comprising the mess.
24.2 Where there is a joint mess
[24.2 substituted by R9225 ppc 06Sep99]
24.2.1 The employer shall engage a competent cook for the mess on terms not less advantageous to the cook than those prescribed by this award.
24.2.2 The employer shall be entitled to charge to each Not Found employee the amount of his share of the wages actually payable to the cook, provided that the employee shall not be charged an amount in excess of the rate per day per member of the mess prescribed in the award.
24.2.3 Where an employer elects to supply food and like items the employer shall be permitted to deduct the price of such items from the wages of those supplied with such items.
24.2.4 If the employer discharges a Not Found member of the mess who has not to the credit of that employee a sufficient sum to satisfy what is due to the mess account by that employee, the employer will make up the deficiency, except so far as the employee’s share of the mess account has been increased by goods purchased elsewhere than from the employer.
24.3 Condition of sheep
The employee may refuse to shear sheep without any responsibility for delay in the following circumstances.
24.3.1 Wet sheep:
(a) If the overseer and the shed representative agree that the sheep are too wet to shear or crutch; or
(b) If in the employees honest opinion, the sheep are so wet as to be likely to injure the employee’s health, and the employee informs the overseer to that effect; or
(c) If in the honest opinion of a majority of shearers (or crutchers) excluding any learner by vote on a secret ballot it is determined that the sheep are too wet to shear or crutch).
(d) The supervisor may request that the vote be delayed until after the shearers (or crutchers) have shorn (or crutched) two sheep each and that the ballot papers have been counted in the presence of the supervisor. The supervisor may request that further votes be taken in relation to sheep which have been voted wet in the same day.
[24.3.1(e) deleted by PR900617 from 12Dec00]
24.3.2 Infected Sheep – Sheep Affected With Prickly Pear, Cancerous Sheep, Wet Sheep
[24.3.2 heading inserted by PR900617 from 12Dec00]
The employee may refuse to shear sheep (or crutch) where the sheep are:
The employee shall put any affected sheep appearing on the board down the chute.
24.3.3 Conditions of sheep – employer requirements:
(a) The employer shall so far as is practicable and reasonable in the particular circumstances prevent from entering the shed;
(b) The employer need not pen sheep for shearing (or crutching)which in the honest opinion of the employee should not be shorn or crutched because they are too wet to be shorn (or crutched), without responsibility for any delay.
(c) The employer may also withdraw sheep which have been penned for shearing (or crutching ) when, in the employer’s honest opinion, the wool is to wet for pressing, without responsibility for any delay.
24.4 Transport to be provided in certain circumstances
Where the employees sleep at the employer's premises and the shearing shed is 1 kilometre or more walking distance from the employees' sleeping quarters, the employer shall provide transport for the employees between the shed and the sleeping quarters before the start of the day's work and at the end of the day's work. Provided that in all cases where the shearing shed is half a kilometre or more walking distance from the employees' huts the employer shall provide transport from the shed to the huts and from the huts to the shed for the mid-day meal.
