For Metal Industry Employees. A casual employee is one engaged and paid as such. A casual employee for working ordinary time shall be paid per hour 1/38th of the weekly rate prescribed in Schedule C of this Agreement, for the work which he or she performs, plus 25 per cent.
For Metal Industry Employees. (a) Tradesmen shall be paid an allowance per week as per Schedule B for supplying and maintaining tools ordinarily required in the performance of their work as tradesmen.
(b) This allowance shall apply to apprentices on the same percentage basis as set out in clause 70.7.1.
(c) The allowance shall apply for all purposes of the Agreement.
(d) Tradesmen and apprentices shall replace or pay for any tools supplied by their employer if lost through their negligence.
(e) Notwithstanding the above, where a hospital provides all tools ordinarily in the performance of the work of a tradesmen the tool allowance shall not be payable.
For Metal Industry Employees. (a) A Mechanical Tradesmen possessing one or two of the following Certificates shall be paid an allowance per week in accordance with Schedule C of this Agreement in recognition of the Certificate(s) used and an additional allowance per week in accordance with Schedule C of this Agreement for use of third and subsequent certificates.
(b) Department of Labour and Industry Welding (Pipes or Pressure Vessels), TAFE Institutions Certificates for Boiler Attending Hydraulics and Pneumatics, Refrigeration.
For Metal Industry Employees. Subject to clause 40.10 an employee recalled to work overtime after leaving their employer’s business premises (whether before or after leaving the premises) shall be paid for a minimum of four hours’ work or where the employee has been paid for standing-by in accordance with clause 40.5.1 below shall be paid for a minimum of three hours work at the appropriate rate for each time they are so recalled; provided that, except in the case of unforseen circumstances arising, the employee shall not be required to work the full three or four hours as the case may be if the job they were recalled to perform is completed within a shorter period; This clause shall not apply in cases where it is customary for an employee to return to their employer’s premises to perform a specific job outside their ordinary working hours or where the overtime is continuous (subject to a reasonable meal break) with the completion or commencement of ordinary working time. Overtime worked in the circumstances specified in this clause shall not be regarded as overtime for the purposes of clause 40.8 above when the actual time worked is less than three hours on such recall or on each of such recalls.
For Metal Industry Employees. Subject to clause 40.10 and subject further to any custom now prevailing under which an employee is required regularly to hold themselves in readiness for a call back, an employee required to hold themselves in readiness to work after ordinary hours shall until released be paid standing-by time at ordinary rates from the time which they are told to hold themselves in readiness. Provided that the existence of a custom shall not operate to relieve an employer from paying a refrigeration serviceman the rate herein prescribed.
For Metal Industry Employees. (a) A day worker, who is required to work overtime for more than two hours after working ordinary hours, shall be allowed a crib time of twenty minutes at ordinary rates, shall be allowed a crib time of twenty minutes at ordinary rates before starting such overtime, and shall be paid $12.58 for a meal. After each four hours of such overtime work, a further twenty minutes crib time with pay shall be allowed, and the employee shall be paid an additional $12.58. The above meal allowances shall not apply where the employer supplies the meal at the employer’s cost.
(b) A shift worker in such circumstances shall not be entitled to a twenty minute break before working overtime, but shall be paid a meal allowance of $12.58 or provided a meal.
(c) In circumstances where a day worker is required to work overtime on a Saturday, the first prescribed crib time shall if occurring between 10:00am and 1:00pm be paid at ordinary rates. For further cribs during such periods of overtime a payment of $12.58 shall be made and such further cribs are to be taken in the same way as the normal crib.
(d) An employer and employee may agree to any variation of this provision to meet the circumstances of the work in hand, provided that the employer shall not be required to make any payment in respect of any time allowed in excess of twenty minutes.
For Metal Industry Employees. Where an employer elects to close down a section or sections of its operations during the Christmas/New Year period for the purpose of allowing annual leave to such employees therein the following provisions shall apply: • The employer shall notify all employees concerned of its intention to close down their area of work not later than three months prior to the close down. • Such notification shall specify the actual dates of close down. • Employees who do not have an entitlement to annual leave at that time under the relevant provisions of this Agreement shall be granted proportionate paid leave.
For Metal Industry Employees. Except as provided for by clause 68.10 of this Agreement an employee not engaged on continuous work shall be paid at the rate of double time and a half for work done on public holidays, such double time and a half to continue until the employee is relieved from duty.
For Metal Industry Employees. A part time employee is one who is engaged to work, on a regular basis, less than the ordinary working hours prescribed in accordance with clause 37 – Hours of Work. Such employment shall be by the fortnight.
(a) A part-time employee shall be engaged to work a fixed and constant number of hours per fortnight as shall be agreed by the employer and the employee.
(b) A part-time employee shall receive payment on a pro-rata basis for recreation leave, long service leave, sick leave and public holidays which fall upon a day on which such an employee would normally work.
(c) Work performed in excess of the fixed number of working hours of a part- time employee shall be at the ordinary hourly rate. Provided that a part- time employee shall be entitled to overtime for work performed outside the ordinary hours as determined in accordance with clause 37 – Hours of Work.
(d) The other conditions of employment of a part-time employee shall be those prescribed elsewhere in this Agreement (as they apply to metal industry employees) except to the extent that they are superseded or modified by the provisions of this clause.
For Metal Industry Employees. 36.2.1 Damage to clothing, spectacles, hearing aids and tools
(a) Compensation to the extent of the damage sustained shall be made where in the course of the work, clothing, spectacles, hearing aids or tools are damaged or destroyed by fire or molten metal or through the use of corrosive substances.
(b) The employer’s liability in respect of tools shall be limited to such tools of trade as are ordinarily required for the performance of the employee’s duties. Provided further that this paragraph shall not apply when an employee is entitled to workers’ compensation in respect of the damage.
