Forestry
Commission Division trading as Forests NSW Crown Employees Fieldwork and Other
Staff Award 2005-2008
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES
Application by Public
Employment Office.
(No. IRC 3663 of 2006)
Before The Honourable
Justice Wright, President
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21 December 2006
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VARIATION
1. Insert after
subclause 13.13 of clause 13 Conditions of Employment, of the award published
14 July 2006 (360 I.G. 47) the following new subclause:
13.13 School Based Apprentices
(a) Definition
A school based apprentice is an employee who is
undertaking an apprenticeship under a training contract while also enrolled in
the Higher School Certificate.
(b) Wages
(i) The hourly rates
for full time apprentices as set out in this Award shall apply to school based
apprentices for total hours worked including time deemed to be spent in
off-the-job training.
(ii) For the
purposes of subclause (b)(i) of this clause, where a school based apprentice is
a full time school student, the time spent in off the job training for which
the school based apprentice is paid is deemed to be 25 per cent of the actual
hours worked on the job each week.
(iii) The wages
paid for training time may be averaged over the school term or year.
(iv) Where this
Award specifies a weekly rate for full time apprentices, the hourly rate shall
be calculated by dividing the applicable weekly rate by 38.
(c) Progression
through the Wage Structure
(i) School based apprentices
progress through the wage scale at the rate of 12 months’ progression for each
two years of employment as an apprentice.
(ii) The rates of
pay are based on a standard apprenticeship of four years. The rate of
progression reflects the average rate of skill acquisition expected from the
typical combination of work and training for a school based apprentice
undertaking the applicable apprenticeship.
(d) Conversion
from a school based apprentice to a full time apprenticeship
Where an apprentice converts from a school based to a
full-time apprenticeship, all time spent as a full-time apprentice counts for
the purpose of progression through the wage scale set out in this Award. This
progression applies in addition to the progression achieved as a school based
apprentice.
(e) Conditions of
Employment
Except as provided by this clause, school based
apprentices are entitled to pro rata entitlements of all other conditions of
employment contained in this Award.
2. The variation
shall take effect on and from 1 January 2007.
F.
L. WRIGHT J , President
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the authority of the Industrial Registrar.