AT794740CRA - Retail and Wholesale Industry - Shop Employees - Australian Capital Territory - Award 2000 [Transitional]

18. WAGE RATES

18.1 Adult wage rates

[18.1 varied by PR904778 PR918781 PR932058 PR947379 PR959327 PR975747; PR979192 ppc 04Oct07]

Employees of the classification mentioned in this clause must be paid the rates as set out below:

No.	Classification	Total rate
		$
1.	Shop assistant (including warehouse employees)	580.50
	Ticket-writers, namely employees engaged on designing and/or Lettering price tickets and/or show cards	580.50
	Demonstrators, namely employees engaged in demonstrating goods	580.50
	Office assistants	580.50
	Cashier	580.50
	Retail merchandisers	580.50
2.	Shop walker or floor supervisor, namely employees engaged in walking floors, directing customers, supervising sales and/or checking bills	588.90
3.	Section heads, namely employees appointed in this position in a section of a shop where there are four or more employees	588.90
4.	Window dressers, namely employees principally engaged in dressing windows	586.50
5.	Order person and outdoor order person, namely employees engaged in collecting orders and/or soliciting business and/or selling away from the employer’s place of business	588.90
6.	Ticket-writer who has passed an appropriate technical college course	591.70
7.	Telephone attendants	576.50
8.	Stenographer, namely an adult typist required to have shorthand qualifications	587.00
9.	Machine operators	583.70
10.	Shop assistants in charge of a shop or department in a shop, not being a shop assistant temporarily in charge during the absence of persons ordinarily in charge of the shop or department but including employees employed as relieving shop assistants in charge of a shop:
	Without duty of buying:
	0 to 4 assistants	591.40
	5 to 12 assistants	599.80
	13 to 25 assistants	610.40
	Over 25 assistants	618.20
	With duty of buying:
	0 to 4 assistants	592.90
	5 to 12 assistants	602.20
	13 to 25 assistants	614.60
	Over 25 assistants	621.60
11.	Restaurant worker	580.50
12.	Tradesperson	615.90

18.2 Juniors

18.2.1 The minimum rates of wages to be paid to juniors must be the money equivalent of the undermentioned percentages of the appropriate adult shop assistants’ rate. Those percentages to be calculated in multiples of 5 cent amounts of 2 cents or less being taken to the lower multiple and amounts in excess of 2 cents being taken to the higher multiple.

	Percentage of appropriate
Age	adult shop assistants rate
Under 16 years of age	40
At 16 years of age	50
At 17 years of age	60
At 18 years of age	70
At 19 years of age	80
At 20 years of age	90

[18.2.2 substituted by PR904778 PR918781 PR932058 PR947379 ppc 11Jun06; varied by PR959327 PR975747; PR979192 ppc 04Oct07]

18.2.2 Junior window dressers must be paid an additional $8.15 each week.

18.2.3 Employees under nineteen years of age engaged on delivering goods by bicycle must be paid not less than the rate prescribed for nineteen years of age.

[18.2.4 substituted by PR904778 PR918781 PR932058 PR947379 ppc 11Jun06; varied by PR959327 PR975747 PR979192 ppc 04Oct07]

18.2.4 Juniors performing work of ordering or at outdoor selling must be paid an additional $5.90 each week.

[18.2.5 substituted by PR904778 PR918781 PR932058 PR947379 ppc 11Jun06; varied by PR959327 PR975747; PR979192 ppc 04Oct07]

18.2.5 Junior ticketwriters who have successfully completed the appropriate unit in the Certificate II in Retail Operations must be paid an additional $8.15 each week.

18.3 Arbitrated safety net adjustment

[18.3.1 substituted by PR904778 PR918781 PR932058 PR947379 PR959327 PR975747; PR979192 ppc 04Oct07]

18.3 Arbitrated safety net adjustment

18.3.1 The rates of pay in this award include the adjustment made by the Australian Industrial Relations Commission in its Wages and Allowances Review 2007 decision. This 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.

18.3.2 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.

[18.3.2 substituted by PR904778 PR918781 PR932058 PR947379 PR959327; PR975747 ppc 01Dec06]

18.3.2 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.