Crown Employees (Correctional Officers, Department of Attorney General and Justice - Corrective Services NSW) Award

 

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES

 

Application by Public Service Association and Professional Officers' Association Amalgamated Union of New South Wales, Industrial Organisation of Employees.

 

(No. IRC 154 of 2011)

 

 

VARIATION

 

1.        Delete subclause (ii) of clause 7, Allowances of the award made 4 May 2012, and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

(ii)       Meals - in general Correctional Officers are not entitled to meal monies except as provided for in clause 5 of Schedule B.

 

2.        Insert after subclause (iv) of clause 10, Hours of Work the following new subclause (v), and renumber the existing subclause (v) to read as subclause (vi).

 

(v)      If a crib break referred to in subclause (iv) is not able to be taken, a Crib Break Penalty may be applicable as set out in clause 5 of Schedule B of this Award.

 

3.        Delete subclauses (i) and (ii) of clause 5, Meal Allowances, in Schedule B, and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

(i)       Correctional Officers are not generally entitled to payment of meal monies other than for the exceptions listed in subclauses (iii) - (vii).

 

(ii)      Correctional Officers employed in the following units within Security and Investigations - Court Escort & Security Unit (CESU), Statewide Emergency Unit, K9 Unit - have areas of responsibility and when operating within those areas they are considered to be performing normal duties.  Officers are required as part of their normal duties to travel to other locations and are supplied with a CSNSW vehicle to undertake the travel.  In the case of the K9 Unit, officers are supplied with a CSNSW vehicle to ensure that they are able to respond directly from their residences.  Meal allowances are generally not payable other than for the exceptions listed in subclauses (iii) to (vii).

 

4.        Delete subclauses (vi) and (vii) of clause 5, in Schedule B, and insert in lieu thereof the following:

 

Meal Monies - inability to take a meal break between the 3rd and 5th hour.

 

(vi)     A Member of Staff performing Authorised External Escorts who is unable to take a twenty (20) minute paid crib break away from the supervision of inmates between the third and fifth hour from the commencement of a shift will be paid an allowance - called a Crib Break Penalty:

 

(a)      For "A" watch an amount equivalent to the rate for lunch money for overtime under the Crown Employees (Public Service Conditions of Employment) Award 2009 or its replacement.

 

(b)      For "C" watch an amount equivalent to the rate for dinner money for overtime under the Crown Employees (Public Service Conditions of Employment) Award 2009 or its replacement.

 

(c)      For "B" watch an amount equivalent to the rate for breakfast money for overtime under the Crown Employees (Public Service Conditions of Employment) Award 2009 or its replacement.

 

For the purposes of this clause:

 

"Authorised External Escort" includes but is not limited to medical/hospital escorts, funeral escorts, officer escorts and Court Escort & Security Unit (CESU) officers.  It does not include escorting and/or supervising inmates or offenders on Mobile Outreach Programs, Community Partnership Programs or in a community setting.

 

"Member of Staff" means an officer, a temporary employee or a casual employee as defined in the Public Sector Employment and Management Act 2002.

 

(vii)     The Crib Break Penalty set out in subclause (vi) above is in lieu of overtime.

 

5.        This variation shall take effect on and from 3 July 2012.

 

 

 

 

R. P. BOLAND J , President

 

 

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