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[63] WEDNESDAY, 17th APRIL, 1968 No. 48-Part 1 >S — Delivered 10. Shift Work. 11. Overtime. GROCERY AND MATCH MANUFACTURING. 12. Meal Interval. BEFORE THE WESTERN AUSTRALIAN 13. Contract of Service. INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION. 14. Higher Duties. No. 5 of 1967. 15. Holidays. Between the Food Preservers' Union of Western 16. Annual Leave. Australia Union of Workers, Applicant, and 17. Absence Through Sickness. D. & J. Fowler (Aust.) Ltd. and others as per 18. Payment of Wages. Schedule A. Respondents. 19. Time and Wages Record. COMMISSIONER J. R. FLANAGAN, in pursuance 20. No Reduction. of the powers and jurisdiction conferred upon him 21. Under-rate Workers. by section 50 of the Industrial Arbitration Act, 1912-1966, and in pursuance of an allocation to 22. Junior Workers' Certificate. him under section 54 of the said Act, doth hereby 23. Limitation of Female Work. make the following award in connection with the 24. Right of Entry. industrial dispute between the abovenamed parties. 25. Board of Reference. 26. Travelling Facilities. Award. 27. General Conditions. 1.—Title. 28. Posting of Award. This Award shall be known as the Grocery and 29. Long Service Leave. Match Manufacturing Award, 1968, and replaces 30. Preference to Unionists*. Awards 17 and 17A of 1962 as amended. * Denotes disputed clause. 2.—Arrangement. 1. Title. 2A.—Special Loading. (1) Each ordinary wage rate prescribed else- 2. Arrangement. where herein shall be increased— 2A. Special Loading. (a) by 60 cents per week if it is equal to or 3. Scope. greater than the basic wage for males or, 4. Area. as the case may be, the basic wage for 5. Term. females; and 6. Definitions. (b) in all other cases by an amount which 7. Wages. bears the same relationship to 60 cents as the ordinary wage rate bears to the basic 8. Incentive Schemes. wage for males or, as the case may be, the 9. Hours of Work. basic wage for females. WESTERN AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRIAL GAZETTE. [17 April, 1968. (2) For the purposes of subclause (1) of this Match Manufacturing— $ clause, and to give effect thereto, wherever a basic V.P.O. dipper 7.30 wage is prescribed herein it shall be deemed to be Painting machine attendant increased by 60 cents per week. (including mixing of the paint) 6.95 3.—Scope. Mixer (compo and adhesives) 6.95 This award shall apply to all workers employed Inner machine operator .... 6.00 by the respondents in the classifications described Board slitter (inner reels) .... 6.00 in Clause 7 hereof, in the manufacture, prepara- All Sections— tion, packing or putting up of spices, condiments, General Factory Hands 5.20 coffee, chicory, cocoa, tea, jelly crystals, farinaceous All others 2.65 foods, dog biscuits, polishes, honey and other simi- lar lines generally manufactured, packed, prepared (3) Adult Females (margin over female or put up by manufacturing grocers, matches, basic wage): margarine, cereal foods, macaroni or similar pro- General Assistants 3.25 ducts, nuts, nut foods, nut products, potato chips, (4) Junior Workers—Male (per cent, of popcorn, polishing materials and such other pro- male basic wage per week): % ducts as are handled by the respondents. 14 to 15 years of age 35 15 to 16 years of age 45 4.—Area. 16 to 17 years of age 55 This award shall have effect over the area south 17 to 18 yeai's of age 65 of the 26th parallel of south latitude. 18 to 19 years of age 75 19 to 20 years of age 85 5.—Term. 20 to 21 years of age 95 The term of this award shall be for a period Junior Workers.—Female (per cent, of three years as from the beginning of the first female basic wage per week): % pay period commencing on or after the date hereof. 14 to 15 years of age — 15 to 16 years of age 45 6.—Definitions. 16 to 17 years of age 55 "Leading Hand" shall mean a worker who is ap- 17 to 18 years of age 65 pointed as such by his employer and who, in addi- 18 to 19 years of age 75 tion to his ordinary duties, is required by the em- 19 to 20 years of age 85 ployer to supervise the work of other workers. 20 to 21 years of age 95 "Casual Worker" shall mean any worker en- (5) Casual Workers: Casual workers shall re- gaged and paid as such. ceive fifteen per cent, in addition to the rates "Mixer and/or Blender" means a worker en- prescribed in this clause for the work per- gaged on the mixing and/or blending of ingredients formed. for products covered by the award. (6) Leading Hands (males per week extra): A leading hand in charge of— $ 7.—Wages. (i) less than 3 other workers .... 1.20 The following shall be the minimum rates of (ii) not less than 3 and not more wages payable to workers covered by this award:— than 10 others 2.30 (1) Basic Wage (per week): $ (iii) more than 10 but less than Males 33.50 20 other workers 4.45 Females ... 25.13 (iv) more than 20 other workers 6.65 (2) Adult Males (margin over male Leading Hands (females per week extra): basic wage): A leading hand in charge of— $ (i) less than 3 other workers .... 0.60 Groceries— (ii) not less than 3 and not more Worker roasting and/or grind- than 10 others 1.10 ing and mixing and blending coffee or chicory 8.30 (iii) more than 10 but less than Steam retort operator or steam 20 other workers 2.30 vat cooker 7.55 (iv) more than 20 other workers 3.50 Other grinders or millers .... 7.00 (7) Workers engaged on the milling and/or Other mixers and blenders .... 7.00 grinding of spices or workers employed bot- Roasters of other commodities 7.00 tling concentrated liquid food colour in small Nut Foods and Allied Products— bottles and who are unable to avoid staining Roaster of nuts 8.30 their hands, shall be paid five cents per hour Salted cooker (potato chips and in addition to the rates herein prescribed. nuts) 8.30 (8) Liberty is reserved to the union to apply for Cereal Foods— the fixation of a margin for females em- Cereal cooker 7.80 ployed on coffee roasting. Fillers, pressmen and conveyor (9) Minimum Wage: workers 6.35 (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of this Macaroni— Clause, no adult male worker shall be Worker drying macaroni, ver- paid less than thirty-seven dollars, fifty- micelli and allied products .... 7.50 five cents per week as ordinary rates of Paste Makers 6.35 pay in respect of the ordinary hours of Press operators 6.35 work prescribed by this award. 17 April, 1968.] WESTERN AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRIAL GAZETTE. 65 (b) Where a minimum rate of pay as Company the subclause shall not apply, and all aforesaid is applicable to workers for work performed on Saturdays shall be paid for at work in ordinary hours, the same rate the rate of double time, except for shift work com- shall be applicable to the calculation of mencing at or before 10 p.m. on Saturdays. overtime and all other penalty rates, payment during sick leave and annual (3) When a worker is recalled to work after leav- leave and all other purposes of this ing the job, he shall be paid for at least three award. hours at overtime rates. (4) (a) A worker required to work overtime for 8.-—Incentive Schemes. more than two hours, without being notified on (1) The particulars of the basis of any incen- the previous day or earlier that he will be so tive scheme shall be supplied to the union. required to work, shall be supplied with a meal by the employer or paid sixty-five cents for a meal. (2) Adjustments and/or variations of the basis (b) If the amount of overtime required to be of any incentive scheme shall be subject to mutual worked necessitates a second or subsequent meal, agreement between the employer and the workers the employer shall, unless he has notified the concerned. workers concerned on the previous day or earlier (3) In the event of any disagreement between that such second or subsequent meal will also be the employer and the workers concerned, the mat- required, provide such meals or pay an amount ter may be referred to the Board of Reference by of forty-five cents for each such second or sub- the employer or the union. sequent meal. (c) No such payments need be made to workers 8.—Hours of Work. living in the same locality as their workshops who (1) The ordinary working hours shall not exceed can reasonably return home for such meals. forty and, subject to Clause 10—Shift Work, shall (d) If a worker, in consequence of receiving such be worked between 7 a.m. and 5.30 p.m. on Mon- notice has provided himself with a meal or meals, day to Friday inclusive. Provided that in the case and is not required to work overtime, or is required of workers employed by the Sanitarium Health to work less overtime than notified, he shall be Food Company, the forty ordinary hours may be paid the amounts above prescribed in respect of worked in five days between Sunday and Friday the meals not then required. inclusive. (5) (a) Rest period after overtime: When over- (2) The starting and finishing times in any time work is necessary, it shall, wherever, reason- establishment shall only be altered by the em- ably practicable, be so arranged that workers have ployer giving seven days' notice to his workers of at least eight consecutive hours off duty between such alteration, except where otherwise agreed be- the work of successive days.

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