[Incorporating P0090 Con-A S Print S8495] AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION Workplace Relatio
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P0090 Con S Print R5911 [incorporating P0090 Con-a S Print S8495] AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION Workplace Relations Act 1996 Review of awards pursuant to Item 51 of Part 2 of Schedule 5 of the Workplace Relations and Other Legislation Amendment Act 1996 PLUMBING INDUSTRY (QLD AND WA) AWARD 1979 (ODN C No. 01447 of 1979) [Print E1939 [P0090]] (C No. 00118 of 1998) Various employees Plumbing industry COMMISSIONER WILKS SYDNEY, 15 JUNE 1999 Award simplification ORDER A. Further to the decisions issued by the Commission on 11 November 1998 and 15 June 1999, [Print Q8609 and Print 5752] the above award is varied as follows: By deleting all clauses, schedules and appendices and inserting the following: 1. AWARD TITLE This award will be known as the Plumbing Industry (Qld and WA) Award 1999. 2. ARRANGEMENT NUMERICAL INDEX ALPHABETICAL INDEX 1. Award title Accident pay 25. 2. Arrangement Annual leave 23. 3. Locality Anti -discrimination 40. 4. Parties and persons bound Apprentices 37. 5. Previous awards superseded Arrangement 2. 6. Period of operation Award title 1. 7. Scope Classifications, rates of pay, all- 10. purpose allowances and calculation of hourly rate 8. Definitions Compensation for tools and clothes 30. 9. Types of emp loyment Definitions 8. 10. Classifications, rates of pay, all - Employees eligible for a supported 41. purpose allowances and calculation of hourly rate 11. Other allowances Employer and employee duties 14. 12. Special rates Enterprise flexibility 15. 13. Fares and travelling time Fares and travelling time 13. 14. Employer and employee duties Hours of work 16. 15. Enterprise flexibility Inclement weather allowance 21. 1 16. Hours of work Jury service make-up pay 27. 17. Work breaks Living away from home – Distant 22. work 18. Overtime Locality 3. 19. Weekend work Other allowances 11. 20. Public holidays and holiday work Overtime 18. 21. Inclement weather allowance Parental leave 26. 22. Living away from home – Distant Parties and persons bound 4. work 23. Annual leave Payment of wages 31. 24. Personal leave Period of operation 6. 25. Accident pay Personal leave 24. 26. Parental leave Posting of award 35. 27. Jury service make -up pay Presenting for work but not required 32. 28. Time records Prev ious awards superseded 5. 29. Protective clothing and equipment Protective clothing and equipment 29. 30. Compensation for tools and clothes Public holidays and holiday work 20. 31. Payment of wages Redundancy 34. 32. Presenting for work but not required Right to deduct pay 39. 33. Termination of employment Scope 7. 34. Redundancy Settlement of disputes 36. 35. Posting of award Special rates 12. 36. Settlement of disputes Superannuation 38. 37. Apprentices Termination of employment 33. 38. Superan nuation Time records 28. 39. Right to deduct pay Types of employment 9. 40. Anti-discrimination Weekend work 19. 41. Employees eligible for a supported Work breaks 17. Appendix A Award restructuring - New classification structure Appendix B Location allowances - Western Australia Appendix C North West Shelf Gas Project (Western Australia) - Operations Appendix D Pinjarra and Kwinana Alumina Refineries Appendix E North West Shelf Gas Project (Western Australia) Appendix F Respondency list 3. LOCALITY This award will apply in the States of Queensland and Western Australia. 4. PARTIES AND PERSONS BOUND 4.1 This award applies to and is binding upon: 4.1.1 The Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia; and 4.1.2 Employers and organizations of employers listed in the Appendix F in respect of their employees engaged in the industry of the occupations, businesses or enterprises of plumbers, drainers, gasfitters, roof plumbers, irrigation installers, lead burners, ship plumbers, and heating, air-conditioning or ventilation plumbers, 2 whether members of The Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia or not. 4.2 This award will not apply: 4.2.1 To the employment of sprinkler fitters by an employer respondent to The Sprinkler Pipe Fitters’ Award 1998 as amended. 4.2.2 To employees principally engaged in installing automatic fire protection systems. 5. PREVIOUS AWARD SUPERSEDED 5.1 This award supersedes the Plumbing Industry (Qld and WA) Award 1979 in respect of employment within its scope by employers bound by this award. 5.2 No employee will be reduced in status or position nor have their rate of remuneration reduced merely as a consequence of the making of this award. 6. PERIOD OF OPERATION This award will come into operation from the beginning of the first pay period which commenced on or after 15 June 1999 and will remain in force for twelve months. 7. SCOPE Subject to the exceptions and modifications contained here, this award applies to the parties and persons bound as prescribed in clause 4 – Parties and persons bound, whether members of the Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia or not who are employed or usually employed in the plumbing industry in executing any plumbing, gasfitting, pipe fitting or domestic engineering work, whether prefabricated or not, or who execute any work in or in connection with: • sheet lead, galvanised iron or other classes of sheet metal or any other materials which supersede the materials usually fixed by plumbers; • lead, wrought, cast or sheet iron, copper, brass or other classes of pipework; • water (hot or cold), steam, gas, air vacuum, heating or ventilating appliances, fittings, services or installations; • house, ship, sanitary, chemical or general plumbing and drainage. 8. DEFINITIONS 8.1 Construction work means all work performed under this award in connection with the erection, repair, renovation, maintenance, ornamentation or demolition of buildings or structures, including the prefabrication of work performed in plumbing workshops. For the purpose of this definition maintenance is confined to employees employed by plumbing industry employers respondent to this award. 8.2 Fabrication will not include the manufacture of pipes or sheeting in manufacturing establishments but will include the application of tradesperson’s skills to cut, join or 3 make up such pipes or sheet into plumbing articles or pipework in a plumbers’ workshop or on a site where normally performed by a plumber. 8.3 Leading hand means an employee who is given by the employer, or their agent, the responsibility of directing and/or supervising the work of other persons, or in the case of only one person, the specific responsibility of directing and/or supervising the work of that person. 8.4 Operator of explosive-powered tools means an employee qualified in accordance with the laws and regulations of the State concerned to operate explosive-powered tools. 8.5 Ordinary time means rates as calculated in accordance with clause 10 - Classifications, rates of pay; all-purpose allowance and calculation of hourly rates; time and a half means ordinary time plus 50 percent; double time means ordinary time plus 100 percent; double time and a half means ordinary time plus 150 percent. 8.6 Licenced drainer (Qld only) will mean a person licenced as a drainer by the appropriate State Authority, or a person holding a certificate covering draining work which is recognized under the provisions of the Australian and New Zealand Reciprocity Association Agreement who within three months makes application for and receives registration from the appropriate State Authority. 8.7 Commission means the Australian Industrial Relations Commission. 8.8 Union means The Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing and Allied Services Union of Australia. 8.9 Plumber means an employee employed or usually employed in executing any general plumbing, ship plumbing, gas fitting, pipe fitting, lead burning, sanitary, heating and domestic engineering, industrial, commercial, medical, scientific and chemical plumbing. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, such work will include the following: 8.9.1 The fixing of all soil, wastes and vent pipes to sanitary fixtures in galvanised mild steel, copper, brass, cast iron, plastic, PVC, sheet metal, asbestos, lead, glass or any other materials that may supersede the aforementioned. 8.9.2 Glazed earthernware pipes and fittings, fibrolite pipe and fittings, concrete pipe and fittings, plastic, PVC pipe and fittings and any other drainage materials that may be introduced in connection with pre-cast concrete septic tanks, or any other manufactured septic tank which has been passed by the Public Health Department. Soak wells, french drains, leech drains, grease traps and all forms of effluent disposal. 8.9.3 The installation of all types of sanitary fixtures such as water closets, hand basins, sinks, urinals, slop hoppers, bidets, troughs and pan washers in stainless steel, sheet metal, plastic, PVC cast iron or any other materials that may supersede those materials, normally used by the plumber. 4 8.9.4 The fixing of all water supply pipes in galvanised mild steel, copper, brass, cast iron, plastic, P.V.C. fibrolite, stainless steel, concrete, hydraulic, aluminium, asbestos, lead or any other material that may supersede those materials normally used from mains to buildings, swimming pools, display fountains, drinking fountains, ejectors, supply tanks, water filters, water softeners, glass washers, fire services including valves and all