BEFORE THE INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION

(601)

SERIAL C4960

Shop Employees (State) Award

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES

Application by Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees' Association, New South Wales, Industrial Organisation of Employees.

(No. IRC 2702 of 2006)

Before Commissioner Murphy

24 July 2006

VARIATION

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

Table 1 - Wages

(i)

Group	Description		Former Rate	SWC	Total Rate
No.			Per Week	2006	Per Week
			$	$	$
1	Shop assistants, demonstrators, trolley collector,		542.80	20.00	562.80
	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	548.80	20.00	568.80
		dressing windows.
	(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		553.60	20.00	573.60
	branch grocery shops
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		553.70	20.00	573.70
	In charge of from 5 to 12 assistants		562.10	20.00	582.10
	In charge of from 13 to 25 assistants		572.70	20.00	592.70
	In charge of over 25 assistants		580.50	20.00	600.50
	(ii)	With the duty of buying -
	In charge of from nil to 4 assistants		555.20	20.00	575.20
	In charge of from 5 to 12 assistants		564.50	20.00	584.50
	In charge of from 13 to 25 assistants		576.90	20.00	596.90
	In charge of over 25 assistants		583.90	20.00	603.90
5	Employees in charge of a motor and/or horse drawn		560.20	20.00	580.20
	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.
6	Retail Merchandiser as defined by subclause (xi) of clause		542.80	20.00	562.80
	2. Definitions

2.�� Delete Items 1, 2, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 21, 22 and 23 of Table 2 - Other Rates & Allowances of Part B, Monetary Rates, and insert in lieu thereof the following:

Table 2 - Other Rates & Allowances

Item	Clause	Brief Description	Amount
No.	No.		$
1	5(a)	Night interval employees	2.08 per shift
2	5(a)	Night interval employees (working one night per week)	3.28 per shift
6	14(c)(ii)	Confection Shop - Employees working after 10.00 p.m. on	1.70 each night
		any night
8	38(1)(i)2(b)	Window Dressers under the age of 21	8.40 per week
9	35(i)(a)	Section Head	12.20 per week
10	35(i)(b)	Qualified adult automotive parts and accessories salesperson	27.80 per week
11	35(i)(c)	Employee with a licence under the Liquor Act 1982	19.00 per week
12	35(ii)(a)	Employee delivering goods	4.20 per week
13	35(ii)(b)	Employee engaged in photographic or other modelling	40.40 per week
			8.08 per day
14	35(ii)(c)	First-aid attendant	1.60 per day
15	35(ii)(d)	Employee engaged to speak a second language	8.10 per week
16	35(ii)(e)	Ticket writer -
		At or over 21 years of age	16.30 per week
		Under 21 years of age	8.15 per week
20	35(v)(a)(1)	Disability allowance for employees working in freezer room	7.80 per week
21	35(v)(b)(1)	Disability allowance for employees working in public dairy	11.70 per week
		room
22	35(v)(c)(1)	Disability allowance for employees backfilling in a freezer room	15.60 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	14.17 per hour
		Under 19 years of age	13.87 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 2006.� These adjustments may be offset against:

(i)�� any equivalent overaward payments, and/or

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

4.�� This variation shall take effect from the first full pay period commencing on or after 28 July 2006.

J. P. MURPHY, Commissioner

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