CLOTHING TRADES (STATE) INDUSTRIAL COMMITTEE

 

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES

 

Application by Transport Workers' Union of Australia, New South Wales Branch, industrial organisation of employees.

 

(Nos. IRC 314 and 315 of 2010)

 

 

ORDER

 

The Commission orders that -

 

1.        The Industrial Committee, known as the Clothing Trades (State) Industrial Committee, published 31 August 2007 (363 I.G. 729), be dissolved.

 

2.        There be established a new Clothing Trades (State) Industrial Committee for the Industries and Callings of -

 

All persons engaged in -

 

(a)      making and/or repairing and/or altering the whole or any part of any male or female garment or of any article of wearing apparel whatsoever, made from material of any description, including all articles of neckwear and excluding only boots, shoes, slippers, gloves and headwear, except as provided in (b);

 

(b)      making and/or trimming and/or blocking and/or repairing and/or altering and/or remodelling all articles of women's and girl's headwear, excepting male employees engaged in blocking by hand or machines;

 

(c)      making and/or repairing and/or altering any description of umbrella other than canvas umbrellas;

 

(d)      making and/or repairing and/or altering any description of handkerchiefs, serviettes, pillowslips, pillowshams, sheets, tablecloths, towel, quilts, aprons, mosquito nets, bad valances, or bed curtains;

 

(e)      embroidering or otherwise ornamenting any of the abovementioned articles, including the making and/or manufacturing or such ornamentations as are made of textiles, felts or similar fabrics;

 

(f)       in or in connection with the manufacture of artificial flowers;

 

(g)      making and/or altering and/or remodelling and/or repairing of all types of garments or articles, other than toys, made in the establishment of a furrier;

 

(h)      the making of chenille and the making and/or repairing and/or altering of articles of all descriptions as are made of chenille;

 

in the State of New South Wales, excluding the County of Yancowinna;

 

excepting employees employed in the making and/or repairing of furnishing drapery and/or quilts in a furniture or furnishing drapery factory or establishment, including retail store or warehouse;

 

and excepting employees within the jurisdiction of the Rubber Workers (State), the Plastic Moulding (State) and the Textile Workers (State) Industrial Committee.

 

3.        The said Committee shall consist of two representatives of employers and two representatives of employees with the final position being such other person as the Industrial Registrar or the Deputy Industrial Registrar may nominate as Chairman of the Industrial Committee.

 

4.        The representatives of employers shall be appointed, upon nomination, as prescribed by Australian Business Industrial, the Australian Retailers Association New South Wales Division, and the Australian Federation of Employees and Industries.

 

5.        The representatives of employees shall be appointed, upon nomination, as prescribed by the Transport Workers Union of New South Wales.

 

6.        This order shall take effect on and from 12 May 2010 and shall remain in force for a period of three years thereafter.

 

 

 

F. MARKS  J.

 

 

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Printed by the authority of the Industrial Registrar.