Electrical Tradesperson - Special Class Sample Clauses
The 'Electrical Tradesperson - Special Class' clause defines the classification and specific conditions of employment for electrical workers who possess advanced skills or qualifications beyond the standard tradesperson level. This clause typically outlines the criteria for attaining 'special class' status, such as additional certifications, experience, or the ability to perform complex electrical tasks, and may specify corresponding pay rates or allowances. Its core function is to recognize and appropriately compensate highly skilled electrical tradespeople, ensuring that their expertise is acknowledged and incentivized within the workplace.
Electrical Tradesperson - Special Class. An electrical fitter or electrical mechanic, who is mainly engaged on complex and/or intricate circuitry, the performance of which work requires the use of ‘additional knowledge’ as defined. For the purpose of this definition ‘additional knowledge’ means knowledge in excess of that gained by the satisfactory completion of the appropriate technical college trade course which has been acquired by the tradesperson by virtue of their:
(1) having had not less than two (2) years on the job experience as a tradesperson working mainly in such complex and/or intricate circuitry as will enable them to perform such work unsupervised where necessary and practicable; and
(2) having, by virtue of either the satisfactory completion of a prescribed post-trade course in industrial electronics or the achievement of a comparable standard of knowledge by other means including the on the job experience referred to in provision (a) hereof, gained a sufficient comprehension of such complex or intricate circuitry work as will enable the tradesperson to examine, diagnose and modify systems comprising inter-connected circuits.
(3) For the purpose of this definition the following courses are deemed to be prescribed post-trade courses in industrial electronics:
(i) Industrial Electronics (Course ‘C’) of the Department of Education, Queensland;
(ii) Post Trade Industrial Electronics Course of the NSW Department of Technical Education;
(iii) The Industrial Electronics Course (Grades 1 & 2) approved by the Education Department of Victoria;
(iv) The Industrial Electronics Course of the South Australian School of Electrical Technology;
(v) The Industrial Electronics Course of the Technical Education Department of Tasmania;
(vi) The Certificate in Industrial Electronics of the Technical Education Division of the Western Australian Educational Department.