AP834748 - Industrial Catering, Cleaning and Incidental Services (AWU and LHMU) Award 2000

PART 5 – WAGES AND RELATED MATTERS 

15. CLASSIFICATIONS AND WAGE RATES

[15.1 substituted by PR905309 PR918234; corrected by PR922224; substituted by PR934669; varied by PR947439; substituted by PR960778 ppc 28Jul05]

15.1 The minimum total rate of wage payable to employees covered by this award shall be:

Classification	From fpp 28 May 2005
	$
Chef/Head Cook	619.90
Qualified Cook	578.20
Breakfast and/or other Cooks	550.50
Service attendant (ie employees engaged on all of the following functions: Kitchen hand, dining room attendant, counter-hand/cashier, storeperson, bar attendant)	550.50
Cleaner	550.50
General Hand	550.50
Gardener	550.50

In the above table “fpp” means from the beginning of the first pay period commencing on or after the relevant date.

15.2 Service payments

15.2.1 An employee who was employed at the commencement of this award and entitled to service payments shall be entitled to continue to receive the service payments but shall not be entitled to any increase in the amount of that payment despite further continuous service with the employer. Provided that service payments shall be absorbed into future safety net adjustments, or otherwise.

15.2.2 Service payments are not required to be made to any employee who commences employment after the commencement of this award or who has three months or less continuous service at that time.

15.2.3 The service payments applying immediately prior to the commencement of this award are as follows:

	Per week
	$
After 3 months continuous service	6.60
After 6 months continuous service	10.20
After 12 months continuous service	15.60
After 18 months continuous service	19.50
After 24 months continuous service	23.20

15.2.4 A part-time employee entitled to service payments under this clause shall receive such payments on a pro rata basis in the proportion to which the employee’s regular weekly hours bear to 38.

15.2.5 Continuous service for purposes of this clause only includes service with the employer from July 1981 until the commencement of this award and includes:

15.2.5(a) Any period of absence on paid leave;

15.2.5(b) Any period of absence from duty necessitated by sickness or of injury to the employee but only to the extent of the amount of sick leave allowed by clause 34 – Personal leave;

15.2.5(c) Any period of absence from duty whilst on workers compensation up to a period of 26 weeks.

15.3 Leading hands

[15.3 varied by PR905309 PR918234; substituted by PR934669; varied by PR947439 PR960778 PR974986 PR979187; PR983981 ppc 01Oct08]

An employee, other than a chef or head cook, who is appointed and placed in charge of other employees by the employer, shall be paid the following amounts in addition to the wage applicable to that employee:

	Per week $
If placed in charge of less than three other workers	14.82
If placed in charge of three but no more than six other workers	22.97
If placed in charge of more than six other workers	32.62

15.4 Apprentices

The weekly wage rate shall be a percentage of the tradesperson’s rate as under:

15.4.1	Four-year term	%
	First year	42
	Second year	55
	Third year	75
	Fourth year	88
15.4.2	Three-and-one-half-year term	%
	First six months	42
	Next year	55
	Next following year	75
	Final year	88
15.4.3	Three-year term	%
	First year	55
	Second year	75
	Third year	88

15.4.4 For the purposes of this part tradesperson’s rate means the rate of wage payable to a qualified cook, as prescribed in this clause.

15.5 The employer shall be under no obligation to pay for any day not worked upon which the employee is required to present for duty, except when such absence is due to illness and comes within the provisions of clause 34 – Personal leave or such absence is on account of holidays to which the employee is entitled under the provisions of this award.

15.6 Arbitrated safety net adjustment

[15.6.1 substituted by PR905309 PR918234 PR934669 PR947439; PR960778 ppc 28Jul05]

15.6.1 The rate of pay in this award include the arbitrated 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.

[15.6.2 substituted by PR905309; PR918234 ppc 28May02]

15.6.2 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.