AP811245 - Timber Industry – CFMEU Wood Panels – Award 2000
PART 5 - WAGES AND RELATED MATTERS
19. CLASSIFICATIONS AND WAGE RATES
[19.1 substituted by PR909498; corrected by PR909503 PR910774 PR910775; substituted by PR920873 PR934736 PR948470; PR960078 ppc 21Sep05]
The minimum weekly wages payable to an adult employee shall be as follows in accordance with the schedules appended to this Award.
19.1.1 At Mount Gambier and Portland
Grade |
Safety net amount |
Total minimum award | |
rate per week | |
$ | |
Senior Line Attendant |
545.70 |
Factory Hand Grade I |
535.10 |
Factory Hand Grade II |
522.90 |
Factory Hand Grade III |
503.10 |
Factory Hand Grade IV(a) |
526.90 |
Factory Hand Grade IV(b) |
535.10 |
Factory Hand Grade IV(c ) |
545.10 |
Factory Hand Grade IV(d) |
564.70 |
19.1.2 At MDF plant at Oberon
Group |
Safety net amount |
Total minimum award | |
rate per week | |
$ | |
Group B |
531.70 |
Group C |
510.70 |
Group D |
499.40 |
Group E |
488.10 |
19.1.3 All other employees
Group |
Safety net amount |
Total minimum award | |
rate per week | |
$ | |
AA (Tumut only) |
521.10 |
A |
515.10 |
B |
504.30 |
C |
491.80 |
D |
472.00 |
19.2 Arbitrated safety net adjustments
[19.2 substituted by PR909498; corrected by PR909503 PR910774 PR910775; substituted by PR920873; PR934736 PR948470; PR960078 ppc 21Sep05]
The rates of pay in this award include the arbitrated safety net adjustment payable under the Safety Net Review—Wages June 2005 decision [PR002005]. This arbitrated safety net adjustment may be offset against any equivalent amount in rates of pay received by employees whose wages and conditions of employment are regulated by this award which are above the wage rates prescribed in the award. Such above-award payments include wages payable pursuant to certified agreements, currently operating enterprise flexibility agreements, Australian workplace agreements, award variations to give effect to enterprise agreements and overaward arrangements. Absorption which is contrary to the terms of an agreement is not required.
Increases made under previous National Wage Case principles or under the current Statement of Principles, excepting those resulting from enterprise agreements, are not to be used to offset arbitrated safety net adjustments.
19.3 Indexation of overaward payments
19.3.1 It is recommended that in accordance with the Commission’s decision dated 23 September 1983 in the National Wage Case and 6 October 1983, in circumstances where the wage rates prescribed in clause 19 hereof are increased by order of a Full Bench of the Commission to reflect movements in the Consumer Price Index as a result of National Wage/Wage Indexation cases, employers party to the award shall apply the Indexation increase to an employee’s actual rate of pay as defined hereunder unless the Commission in the National Wage/Wage Indexation case concerned indicates an attitude that overaward payments shall not be so adjusted.
19.3.2 Actual rate of pay is defined as the total amount an employee would normally receive for performing 38 hours ordinary work. Provided that such rate shall expressly exclude overtime, penalty rates, disability allowance, shift allowance, special rates, fares and travelling time allowance, and any other ancillary payments of a like nature. Provided further that this definition shall not include production bonuses and other methods of payment by results which by virtue of their basis of calculation already produce the results intended by this clause.
Junior rates shall only apply to employees in either Level 1 or Level 2 unless the employee is engaged as a shift worker. Employees engaged to carry out work at levels higher than Level 1 or 2 will be paid the full adult rate.
19.5 Time and wages records and inspection
19.5.1 The employer shall keep at each enterprise time and/or wage records showing the names of employees, the daily number of hours worked by each employee, the rate of pay and the wages paid to each employee. A permanent record of each employees classification shall be similarly kept.
19.5.2 The Federal Secretary or Secretary of a State Branch of the union or any Officer thereof authorised in writing by one of them shall, on production of an authority to the employer, the local manager or the person who purports to be in charge, be allowed at all reasonable times to inspect such time book, sheets or cards, and to make a copy of them. Such time and/or wage records for the last preceding six years shall be kept available for this purpose, however, records more than two years old may be kept at an alternative location provided they are produced for inspection within 48 hours of a notice requiring their inspection being given by a duly authorised union official.
