AT805114CRV - Federal Meat Industry (Retail and Wholesale) Award 2000 [Transitional]
3.1 Abattoir associated with a butcher shop, or like words, means an abattoir and may include a rendering operation. Wherever the word abattoir is used in this award it shall also be read as meaning a slaughterhouse which is associated with a butcher shop where:
3.1.1 not more than three adult slaughterers (excluding any employee not engaged in knocking down, pithing, sticking, bleeding, dressing, skinning, necking off or cutting down) are employed and which is owned or operated by a person or persons bound by this award any one or more of whom also owns or operates a butcher shop and the abattoir is partly used for slaughtering meat for the butcher shop; or
3.1.2 not more than seven adult slaughterers (excluding any employee not engaged in knocking down, pithing, sticking, bleeding, dressing, skinning, necking off or cutting down) are employed and which is owned or operated by a person or persons bound by this award any one or more of whom also owns or operates a butcher shop and the killing is exclusively for the butcher shop.
3.2 Act shall mean the Workplace Relations Act 1996 (Cth) including the Regulations.
3.3 Boner is an employee who is required to use a knife to remove meat from the bones, sides, quarters or other piece of carcase in accordance with the employers specifications.
3.4 Butcher shop means any shop, self-service establishment, vehicle or place (other than an abattoir) where uncooked meats are prepared and/or offered for sale. Provided that any other establishment may sell poultry, rabbit, hams, uncooked or salted pig’s cheeks and pigs’ trotters, bacon, ham or pork bones or sausages and by doing so shall not be deemed to be a butcher shop.
3.5 Carcase grader is an employee who determines the category of grades into which bodies are allotted in accordance with approved specifications and who is appropriately accredited by the relevant authority.
3.6 Commission shall mean the Australian Industrial Relations Commission.
3.7 General butcher shall mean an employee who holds an accredited and relevant retail butchering trade qualification.
3.8 The term pre-packed meats shall, without limiting its ordinary or trade meaning, include cuts and/or pieces of uncooked meat packed or wrapped prior to sale in cellulose or plastic film, crinkle-craft or waterproof paper, cardboard or foil or other similar material to any of the foregoing but not including hessian or stockinette) and whether such meat is fresh, chilled or frozen.
3.9 Salesperson means an employee (not being a general butcher) who is employed in a self-service establishment in the replenishing of display or storage cabinets or work associated therewith or in a butcher shop, selling uncooked meat and whose principal responsibility will be dealing directly with customers in respect to sales of meat and other butcher shop products, and who may also perform the following duties:
3.10 Sawyer is an employee who breaks down a carcase, side, quarter or other piece using a saw, either for the pre-work-up for boning or in accordance with an employer’s required specifications.
3.11 Skin classer is an employee accredited to assess the categories of grades into which skins are sorted in accordance with predetermined specifications.
3.12 Slicer is an employee who is required to use a knife to trim, including the removal of extraneous material, in accordance with the employer’s instructions and product specifications and to dispatch such product to other employees for further processing if required by the employer.
3.13 Smallgoods maker means an employee who has served a relevant apprenticeship or has at least four years’ general experience in smallgoods-making and who is responsible for the making of smallgoods and who may be required to perform all tasks relating to smallgoods manufacturing in a butcher shop, including that of mixing-machine operator, boner, butcher, salter and/or pickle pumper, cooker, filler, linker and tablehand.
3.14 Smallgoods seller means an employee in charge of a van engaged in soliciting wholesale business and fulfilling sales from stocks of meat products carried in the van in exchange for cash or cheque received in payment for such sales or goods sold on credit.
3.15 Storage etc. means the storing, handling (including handling into, and out of store), chilling, freezing or, in any way otherwise treating any of the following meat: offal, meat-meal, tallow, hides, any other by-products of an abattoir, or goods or equipment for use in or in connection with an abattoir.
3.16 Tradesperson slaughterer is an employee who is competent to slaughter to completion all species of animal to approved standards and who has an accredited and relevant trade qualification.
3.17 Slaughterer is an employee so classified under the award who is not a tradesperson slaughterer but is competent to perform slaughtering tasks in accordance with the employer’s specifications.
3.18 Trimmer is an employee who uses a knife to remove fat or other extraneous material or foreign matter from a carcase, side, quarter or piece prior to boning or in preparation for chilling prior to boning.
3.19 Union shall mean the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union (AMIEU).
3.20 Wholesale or wholesaler are to be given their ordinary meaning and includes establishments that supply meat products for hospitality and catering outlets.
3.21 Continuous service
For the purposes of this award a year of service is unbroken by any of the following:
3.21.1 any annual leave or long service leave taken;
3.21.2 any interruption or ending of the employment by the employer if such interruption or ending is made with the intention of avoiding obligations in respect of annual leave or long service leave;
[3.21.3 corrected by PR951737 01Dec00]
3.21.3 any absence from work of not more than fourteen days in the year of employment on account of sickness or accident;
3.21.4 any absence on account of leave (other than paid leave) granted, imposed or agreed to by the employer;
3.21.5 any absence on any other account not involving termination of employment;
3.21.6 any parental leave taken; and
in calculating a year of service any absence of a kind mentioned in 3.21.1, 3.21.2 or 3.21.3 (less than fourteen days) of this subclause will be counted as part of the year of service but, in respect of absences of a kind mentioned in 3.21.3 (more than fourteen days) 3.21.4, 3.21.5 and 3.21.6, while they do not break continuity of service of an employee, they are not taken into account in calculating the period of service of any relevant award entitlement.
3.22 Ordinary hourly rate and overtime
For all purposes of the award, except where otherwise expressly provided:
3.22.1 Ordinary hourly rate shall mean the award rate of pay prescribed in clause 15 - Classification levels and wage rates of this award, for the classification of the employee, divided by 38;
3.22.2 Time and one quarter shall mean the ordinary hourly rate increased by 25%;
3.22.3 Time and one half shall mean the ordinary hourly rate increased by 50%;
3.22.4 Double time shall mean the ordinary hourly rate increased by 100%;
