BEFORE THE INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION

(601)

SERIAL C3960

SHOP EMPLOYEES (STATE) AWARD

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES

Application by Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees' Association, New South Wales, an industrial organisation of employees, and another.

(No. IRC 3237 & 3238 of 2005)

Before Commissioner Macdonald

6 July 2005

VARIATION

1.�� Delete (i) of Table 1 - Wages, of Part B, Monetary Rates, of the award published 18 May 2001 (324 I.G. 935), as varied, and insert in lieu thereof the following:

Table 1 - Wages

(i)

Group No.	Description	Former Rate	SWC 2005	Total Rate
		Per Week		Per Week
		$	$	$
1	Shop assistants, demonstrators, trolley collector,	525.80	17.00	542.80
	salespersons outdoor, employees driving a forklift or
	using mechanical equipment as required, the role of
	Santa Claus, ticket writers, mannequins, order hands,
	reserve stock hands (including reserve stock hands in
	theatre distributing services), employees delivering
	goods (other than newspapers and the like) by bicycle or
	tricycle, employees engaged in the cooking or the
	preparation of provisions for sale in the shop of the
	employer, cashiers in special shops, persons employed
	on information desks and/or on customer services or as
	full-time messengers, employees engaged in the
	installation (other than installation requiring trade skill),
	servicing, stocking, collection of money from, and
	preparation of, commodities for sale in automatic
	vending devices, employees engaged in the pre-packing,
	weighing, pricing of fruit and/or vegetables on the shop
	premises, employees principally engaged in hiring out
	activities in a shop, and waitresses in confection shops
	employed waiting on tables for two hours or more per day
2	(a) Window Dresser Employees principally engaged in dressing windows.	531.80	17.00	548.80

	(b) Window dressers under 21 years of age shall be paid
	as per Item 8 of table 2 - Other Rates and Allowances, of
	Part B, Monetary Rates, in addition to the rates
	prescribed by subclause (c) of Clause 38 Wages.
3	Branch Supervisor Shop assistants engaged in supervising branch grocery shops	536.60	17.00	553.60
4	Shop Assistants in charge of a shop or a 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:

	(i) Without the duty of buying -
	In charge of from nil to 4 assistants	536.70	17.00	553.70
	In charge of from 5 to 12 assistants	545.10	17.00	562.10
	In charge of from 13 to 25 assistants	555.70	17.00	572.70
	In charge of over 25 assistants	563.50	17.00	580.50

	(ii) With the duty of buying -
	In charge of from nil to 4 assistants	538.20	17.00	555.20
	In charge of from 5 to 12 assistants	547.50	17.00	564.50
	In charge of from 13 to 25 assistants	559.90	17.00	576.90
	In charge of over 25 assistants	566.90	17.00	583.90
5	Employees in charge of a motor and/or horse drawn
	vehicle selling stock carried on the vehicle products of a
	kind which usually are sold by confection/ take-away
	food shops Employees under the age of 21 years but not
	less than the age of 18 years shall be paid the percentages
	of the rate for an adult contained in (ii) of Table 1 - Clause 38 Wages.	543.20	17.00	560.20
6	Retail Merchandiser as defined by subclause (xi) of clause 2. Definitions	525.80	17.00	542.80

2.�� Delete Table 2 - Other Rates & Allowances of Part B, Monetary Rates, and insert in lieu thereof the following:

Table 2 - Other Rates & Allowances

Item No.	Clause No.	Brief Description	Amount
			$
1	5(a)	Night interval employees	2.00 per shift
2	5(a)	Night interval employees (working one night per week)	3.16 per shift
3	6(i)(b), (c)	Meal Allowances	10.40
	36(i)(d)
	36(ii)(a)
4	6(ii)	Breakfast Allowances	5.60
	16(vii)
5	14(a)(ii)	General Shops - Loading for casual employees working on a Saturday:
		Engagements up to and including four hours -
		Adult Employees	5.90
		Employees under 21 years of age	3.90
		Engagements exceeding four hours -
		Adult Employees	12.00
		Employees under 21 years of age	6.60
	14(a)(iii)	Special and Confection Shops - Loading for casual employees working on a Saturday:
		Adult Employees	5.90
		Employees under 21 years of age	3.90
6	14(c)(ii)	Confection Shop - Employees working after 10.00 p.m. on any night	1.64 each night
7	25(i)	Laundering Allowance (if any article requires ironing):
		Full-time employee	8.60 per week
		Part-time and casual employee	2.90 per shift
		Maximum payment	8.60 per week
		Laundering allowance (if none of the articles require ironing):
		Full-time employee	5.20 per week
		Part-time and casual employee	1.75 per shift
		Maximum payment	5.20 per week
8	38(1)(i)2(b)	Window Dressers under the age of 21	8.10 per week
9	35(i)(a)	Section Head	11.70 per week
10	35(i)(b)	Qualified adult automotive parts and accessories salesperson	26.70 per week
11	35(i)(c)	Employee with a licence under the Liquor Act 1982	18.30 per week
12	35(ii)(a)	Employee delivering goods	4.00 per week
13	35(ii)(b)	Employee engaged in photographic or other modelling	38.80 per week
			7.76 per day
14	35(ii)(c)	First-aid attendant	1.54 per day
15	35(ii)(d)	Employee engaged to speak a second language	7.80 per week
16	35(ii)(e)	Ticket writer -
		At or over 21 years of age	15.70 per week
		Under 21 years of age	7.85 per week
17	35(iv)	Bicycle Allowance	10.30 per week
		Motorcycle Allowance	30.80 per week
18	35(iv)	Motor Car Allowance:
		Up to and including 2000cc	107.40 per week
		Over 2000cc	128.00 per week
		Allowance per kilometre travelled	32 cents per km
19	35(iv)	Allowance per kilometre travelled:
		Car under and including 2000cc	49 cents per km
		Car over 2000cc	53 cents per km
		Part-time or Casual Retail Merchandiser local or Country, in the use of his/her vehicle	58.3 cents per km
20	35(v)(a)(1)	Disability allowance for employees working in freezer room	7.50 per week
21	35(v)(b)(1)	Disability allowance for employees working in public dairy room	11.25 per week
22	35(v)(c)(1)	Disability allowance for employees backfilling in a freezer room	15.00 per week
23	36(i)(a)	Casual hourly rate of pay for persons employed at trade fairs, etc., between 9.00 a.m. and
		6.00 p.m., with a minimum payment of six hours -
		At 19 years of age and over	13.64 per hour
		Under 19 years of age	13.34 per hour
	36(ii)(b)	Saturday Loading -
		Adult Employees	5.90
		Under 21 years	3.90

3.�� Delete subclause (b) of Clause 38, Wages, and insert in lieu thereof the following:

(b)�� 'The rates of pay in this award include the adjustments payable under the State Wage Case 2005. �These adjustments may be offset against:

(i)�� any equivalent over award payments, and/or

(ii)�� award wage increases since 29 May 1991 other than safety net, State Wage Case, and minimum rates adjustments.

4.�� Delete the amount $60.00 appearing in subclause (c) of clause 34, Supported Wage System for Workers with Disabilities, and insert in lieu thereof the following:

$61.00

5.�� This variation shall take effect from the first full pay period commencing on or after 28 July 2005.

A. W. MACDONALD, Commissioner.

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