LANDSCAPE GARDENERS, &c. (STATE) INDUSTRIAL COMMITTEE

 

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES

 

Application by The Australian Workers' Union, New South Wales, industrial organisation of employees.

 

(No. IRC 363 & 364 of 2005)

 

 

ORDER

 

The Commission orders that -

 

1.          The Industrial Committee, known as the landscape Gardeners &c. (State) Industrial Committee published 28 May 1993 (275 I.G. 280), be dissolved.

 

2.          There be established a new Landscape Gardeners &c. (State) Industrial Committee for the Industries and Callings of:-

 

Employees of landscape or master gardeners engaged in designing, preparing, planting and/or maintaining lawns, gardens, parklands, recreation areas, and paths in connection therewith in the state, excluding the County of Yancowinna;

 

Excepting employees of -

 

The Council of the City of Sydney;

The Council of the City of Newcastle, and all municipal, shire and county councils;

The Australian Gas Light Company;

The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited at Newcastle;

Australian Wire Industries Pty Ltd at its Newcastle Wiremill;

 

The Roads and Traffic Authority engaged in the maintenance of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, other than employees engaged in the maintenance of the pavement of the roadway and footpaths of the bridge;

 

And excepting employees in or about coal mines north of Sydney, in or about coal mines in the South Coast district, in or about coal mines and shale mines west of Sydney;

 

And excepting also -

 

Rockchoppers, sewer miners'

Surveyors' labourers;

Labourers employed in or in connection with the manufacture of cement, monier and/or concrete pipes by hand or machines in factories;

Labourers employed in the erection, alternation, or demolition of buildings;

Carters, grooms, stablemen, yardmen and drivers of motor and other power-propelled vehicles;

Labourers employed in the maintenance of privately owned railways;

 

And also excepting within the jurisdiction of the following Industrial Committees -

 

Crown Employees (General);

Race Clubs, &c., Employees (Cumberland and Newcastle);

Race Clubs, &c. (Country);

Showground, &c., Employees (State);

Smelting and Fertilizer Manufacturing (Sulphide Corporation Pty Limited and Greenleaf Fertilizers Limited).

 

3.          The said Industrial Committee shall consist of one (1) representative of employers and one (1) representative of employees.

 

4.          The representative of employers shall be appointed, upon nomination as prescribed, by the Landscape Contractors Association of New South Wales.

 

5.          The representative of employees shall be appointed, upon nomination as prescribed, by The Australian Workers' Union, New South Wales.

 

5.          This order shall take effect from 21 February 2005 for a period of three (3) years.

 

 

 

R. P. BOLAND  J.

 

 

 

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