AT832792 - Retail and Wholesale Industry - SDAEA Wholesale Grocers Award 2003 [Transitional]
8.1 Where a weekly employee is put to work temporarily at a higher classification than that under which he/she was engaged or deemed to be working he/she shall be paid as follows:
8.1.1 up to three hours on any one day - the rate prescribed for such higher classification with a minimum of one hour;
8.1.2 over three hours on any one day - a full day’s pay at the rate prescribed for such higher classification;
8.1.3 over ten hours in any one week - a full week’s pay at the rate prescribed for such higher classification.
8.2 A weekly employee shall not suffer any reduction in wages during any week by reason of his/her having been put to work for a part of such week at a classification lower than that under which he/she was engaged or deemed to be working.
8.3 Where an employee is moved to a higher classification as a permanent move at the discretion of the employer, he/she will undergo a training period of six weeks in order to qualify for payment in that higher classification. During that training period, he/she will be paid at his/her previous rate and, if found satisfactory in the new classification at the end of the stipulated period, will be back paid for that full period.
8.4 In the event of an employee nominated not being satisfactory during or at the end of the six week training period, an additional payment of $2.90 per week over his/her previous rate will be paid for the total period he/she was undergoing training.
