Before the Industrial Relations Commission s14

(656) SERIAL C4959 TENNIS STRINGS AND SUTURES INDUSTRY (STATE) AWARD

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES

Application by Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees' Association, New South Wales, Industrial Organisation of Employees.

(No. IRC 2705 of 2006)

Before Commissioner Murphy 24 July 2006

VARIATION

1. Delete subclause (a) of clause 8, Arbitrated Safety Net Adjustment, of the award published 3 August 2001 (326 I.G. 684), insert in lieu thereof the following:

(a) The rates of pay in this award include the adjustments payable under the State Wage Case 2006. These adjustments may be offset against.

(i) any equivalent overaward payments, and/or

(ii) award wage increases since 29 May 1991 other than safety net, State Wage Case, and minimum rates adjustments.

2. Delete (i) of Table 1 - Wages, of Part B, Monetary Rates, and insert in lieu thereof the following:

PART B

MONETARY RATES

Table 1 - Wages

Item No Brief Description Total Rate Per Week $ A Chemist - Research Chemist 615.75 Analytical and/or Chemist 576.05 Trainee Chemist - 1st year of adult experience 529.60 2nd year of adult experience 551.55 3rd year of adult experience 567.40 B Manufacturers of all Catgut Products - Employees engaged in the following - Splitting and/or harvesting raw material 535.60 Preparing and/or washing and/or processing raw material 535.60 Grading 535.60 Stripping 535.60 Making and/or measuring and/or looping 535.60 Employees engaged in spinning strings, responsible for final products 539.65 Employees engaged in spinning strings, not required to use discretion as to the final product 535.60 Employees engaged as a spinning and/or drying room attendant 535.60 Housekeeper 521.55

- 1 - C Surgical Catgut Finishing Operations - Employees engaged in the following - Cutting down 535.60 Taking down 535.60 Sanding, polishing and grinding 535.60 Grading 535.60 Machine gauging 535.60 Manual Gauging 535.60 Counting 535.60 Tying and packing 535.60 Housekeeping 521.55 D Tennis and Other Non-surgical Catgut Finishing Operations - Employees engaged in the following - Taking down 520.90 Sanding, polishing or grinding 520.90 Coating and/or lacquering 520.90 Cutting down 520.90 Coiling 520.90 Grading and/or inspecting finished strings 520.90 Tying 520.90 Gauging 520.90 Branding and/or packaging 520.90 E Suture Preparation - Employees engaged in the following - Drying and/or sterilising sutures 520.90 Filing and/or sealing sutures 520.90 Inspection of packaged sutures 520.90 Ampoule making 520.90 Winding sutures 520.90 F Quality Control - Group Leader -Quality Control Attendant 537.65 Quality Control Attendant 526.55

3. Delete items 1, 2, 4, & 5 of Table 2 - Other Rates and Allowances and insert in lieu thereof the following:

Item Clause Brief Description Amount No. No. $ 1 6(d) In charge of 1 to 5 employees 20.80 In charge of 6 to 10 employees 24.30 In charge of more than 10 employees 29.10 2 13(e)(i) Morning or afternoon shift allowance 15.38 per shift 13(e)(ii) Night shift allowance 20.71 per shift 4 16 Dusty, Dirty Work, etc 0.48 5 17 First-aid allowance 2.67

4. This variation shall take effect from the first full pay period commencing on or after 24 July 2006.

J. P. MURPHY, Commissioner

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Printed by the authority of the Industrial Registrar.