Crown Employees (NSW Fire Brigades Retained Firefighting Staff) Award 2005

 

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES

 

Application by New South Wales Fire Brigade Employees Union, Industrial Organisation of Employees.

 

(No. IRC 383 of 2007)

 

 

VARIATION

 

1.          Insert after paragraph 6.6.1.3 of clause 6 - Rates of Pay and Allowances of the award published 15 July 2005 (352 I.G. 424) the following new subparagraph:

 

6.6.1.3a            Royal Easter Show - periods of attendance for the purpose of calculating payment shall be calculated having regard to the provisions of subclause 6.8a.

 

2.          Insert after subclause 6.8 of clause 6 the following new paragraph:

 

6.8a      Attendance at the Royal Easter Show

 

6.8.a.1              The following hourly rates shall be paid to employees working at the Royal how:

 

6.8a.1.1            For Captain the rate prescribed at Entitlement Code O of Table 1 of Part B of this Award.

 

6.8a.1.2            For Deputy Captain, Firefighter Levels A, B & C the rate prescribed at Entitlement Code P of Table 1 of Part B of this Award.

 

6.8a.2               The rates prescribed in 6.8.a.1 above are all incidence of employment rates and, standing anything else prescribed in this Award, employees receiving such rates shall:

 

6.8a.2.1            only be entitled to be paid for the hours actually worked at the Royal Easter Show. Provided that, if an employee cannot attend for duty due to illness or incapacity then the employee shall be entitled to be paid for the hours that would have otherwise been worked.

 

6.8a.2.2            not be entitled to any payment or compensation for travelling time or travelling costs in connection with attendance at the Royal Easter Show;

 

6.8a.2.3            not be entitled to any payment or compensation with respect to either meals (except as provided for 6.8a.4) and/or accommodation in connection with attendance at the Royal Easter Show;

 

6.8a.2.4            not be entitled to the payment of overtime or downtime in connection with attendance at the Royal Easter Show.

 

6.8a.3               All payments made under this subclause shall count for the purposes for any paid leave.

 

6.8a.4               In the event that the employees attend an incident while working at the Royal Easter Show such employees shall be entitled to the provisions of Clause 8 - Meals and Refreshments.

 

6.8a.5               Attendance at the Royal Easter Show shall be treated as a period of authorised absence for the purposes of subclause 26.2.

 

3.          Insert at the end of Table 1 - Payment Entitlement Codes the two additional rows as below:

 

Table 1 - Payment Entitlement Codes

 

 

4.          This variation shall take effect on and from 2 April 2007.

 

 

 

J. McLEAY, Commissioner

 

 

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