Funeral
Industries (State) Reviewed Award 2008
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES
Application by The
Funeral and Allied Industries Union of New South Wales Branch, Industrial
Organisation of Employees.
(No. IRC 2053 of 2009)
Before Commissioner
Bishop
|
23 December 2009
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VARIATION
1. Delete
subclause (i), of clause 5, Wages, of Part I Funeral Directors of the award published
27 February 2009 (367 1.G. 359), and insert in lieu thereof the following:
(i) The rates of
pay shall be the minimum to be paid to weekly employees in the classifications
as set out in Table 1 of Part B of this award:
The rates of pay in this award include the adjustments
payable under the State Wage Case 2009.
These adjustments may be offset against:
(a) any equivalent
overaward payments, and/or
(b) award wage
increases since 29 May 1991 other than safety net, State Wage Case, and minimum
rates adjustments.
2. Delete
subclause (vi), of clause 10, Wages, of Part II Casket and/or Manufacturing,
and insert in lieu thereof the following:
(vi) The rates of pay
in this award include the adjustments payable under the State Wage Case
2009. These adjustments may be offset
against:
(a) any equivalent
overaward payments, and/or
(b) award wage
increases since 29 May 1991 other than safety net, State Wage Case, and minimum
rates adjustments.
3. Delete Part B,
Monetary Rates, and insert in lieu thereof the following:
PART B
MONETARY RATES
Table 1 - Wages
PART 1 - FUNERAL
DIRECTORS
Classification
|
New Base Rate as at
|
New Hourly Rate as
at
|
|
2009 SWC
|
2009 SWC
|
|
$
|
|
Resident Manager
|
733.30
|
19.30
|
Embalmer
|
722.70
|
19.02
|
Resident Arranging Officer
|
709.00
|
18.66
|
Relieving Manager
|
709.00
|
18.66
|
Non Resident & Duty
|
|
|
Officer
|
709.00
|
18.66
|
Arranging Officer
|
706.20
|
18.58
|
Conductor
|
709.00
|
18.66
|
Shop Person
|
696.30
|
18.32
|
Trainee Embalmer 1st
|
696.30
|
18.32
|
Trainee Embalmer 2nd
|
705.30
|
18.56
|
Trainee Embalmer 3rd
|
714.10
|
18.79
|
Qualified Embalmer
|
722.70
|
19.02
|
PART II - CASKET
MANUFACTURING
Classification
|
New
Base Rate as at 2009 SWC
|
New Hourly Rate as
at 2009 SWC
|
|
$
|
|
Labourer
|
605.00
|
15.92
|
Process Worker
|
657.30
|
17.30
|
Grade 1
|
683.70
|
17.99
|
Grade 2
|
696.30
|
18.32
|
Junior Employees
|
Percentage of Grade
II
|
|
|
17 Years and under
|
40%
|
18 Years of age
|
48%
|
19 Years of age
|
60%
|
20 Years of age
|
72%
|
Table 2 - Other
Rates and Allowances
Item
|
Clause
|
Brief Description
|
Amount as at
|
No.
|
No.
|
|
2009 SWC
|
|
|
|
$
|
1
|
5 (iv)
|
Living-away Allowance - Relieving Manager
|
84.94 p.w.
|
2
|
5 (v)(a)
|
Cleaning (outside normal hours) -
|
|
|
|
Resident Manager
|
13.62 p.h.
|
3
|
6 (vi)
|
Stand by Monday to Friday
|
12.19 p.d.
|
|
6 (vi)
|
Stand by Saturday/Sunday
|
23.50 p.d.
|
|
6 (vi)
|
Ready for after hours work
|
43.92 p.d.
|
13
|
8(vi)(a)
|
Exhumation -14 days or less
|
65.89
|
14
|
8(vi)(b)
|
Exhumation - (embalmed) 14 days to 7 years
|
78.95
|
15
|
8(vi)(c)
|
Exhumation - (not embalmed) 14 days to 7 years
|
131.52
|
16
|
8(vi)(d)
|
Exhumation - in excess of 7 years
|
65.89
|
20
|
13
|
Tool Allowance
|
4.88 p.w.
|
21
|
15(v)
|
Meal at other than usual place (without
|
|
|
|
notification)
|
11.76
|
22
|
15(viii)
|
Meal Allowance
|
11.76
|
23
|
15(ix)
|
Meal Allowance - Saturdays, Sundays, Holidays
|
11.76
|
24
|
21(i)
|
Long Service Bonus - 5 and under 10 years
|
8.02 p.w.
|
25
|
21(i)
|
Long Service Bonus - 10 and under 15 years
|
15.35 p.w.
|
26
|
21(i)
|
Long Service Bonus -15 and under 20 years
|
20.64 p.w.
|
27
|
21 (i)
|
Long Service Bonus - 20 years and over
|
33.22
|
28
|
26(ix)
|
Clothing Allowance - casuals
|
2.41 per half day
|
|
|
|
or part thereof
|
4. This variation shall
take effect from the beginning of the first pay period to commence on or after
3 October 2010.
E.
A. R. BISHOP, Commissioner
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Printed by
the authority of the Industrial Registrar.