For Plumbing Industry Employees. The tool allowance for Plumbing Industry Employees is included in the base rates of pay prescribed in Schedule B of this Agreement to compensate for the purchase and maintenance in efficient working order of the tools required to perform the duties of the employee as specified in clauses 29.1.1(a), (b), (c) and (d):
(a) One pair each of the following: 150mm, 225mm and 300mm footprints, 250mm stillsons, multigrips or gas pliers, 200mm combination pliers, 250mm vice grip pliers, 200mm pincers, 250mm and 300mm straight snips, 175mm and 250mm curved snips, 200mm dividers.
(b) One set of each of the following: Flat spanners - 6mm to 16mm, ring spanners - 6mm to 16mm, seaming tools - 6mm, 8mm and 10mm, keyhole saw and blades, wood bits - 6mm, 8mm, 10mm, 11mm, 16mm, 22mm, 25mm and 28mm.
(c) One each of the following: 250mm and 300mm screwdrivers, 285g tack hammer, 450g ball xxxxx hammer, 680g claw hammer, 1.36kg gympie hammer, 250mm bevel square, 300mm set square, 450g and 565g soldering irons, 1 metre folding rule, line level 27.24kg string line, 450g plumb-xxx and line, 300mm wood brace, hand drill to take up to 6mm drill, 13mm and 25mm wood chisels, 13mm x 19mm block and pin, 150mm and 300mm adjustable wrenches, 200mm and 300mm rasps and handles, hacksaw, 150mm ladle, 100mm taper turnpin, drawknife, shavehook, bent boxwood dresser, straight boxwood dresser, 600mm spirit level, boxwood bossing mallet, crocks expander for copper, bent bolt, pointing trowel, 3mm rivet set, basin spanner, centre punch, prick punch, nail bag, tool bag, padlock, plugging chisel, 6mm, 13mm and 19mm cold chisels, 10mm, 13mm and 25mm star drills, and hollow punches An employee will only be required to have available at any time those tools specified above as are necessary for the proper performance of the work or job being done by him/her.
For Plumbing Industry Employees. Employees registered in accordance with the relevant legislation will be paid a registration allowance which is included in the base rate outlined in Schedule B to compensate for the responsibilities imposed by holding and maintaining registration.
For Plumbing Industry Employees. An employee who, after his/her ordinary day’s work, has departed from the place where he/she works and has reached his/her home or other stopping place without having been given notice that he/she would be required to do further work before the normal starting time on the next working day, if recalled to do such work, will be paid at the rate of double time for such work with a minimum of 6 and a half hours’ pay at the ordinary rate for each time he/she is recalled.
For Plumbing Industry Employees. The average ordinary hours will be 38 per week worked in accord with the following provisions for a 4-week work cycle:
(a) Ordinary working hours will be worked in a 20-day, 4 week cycle Monday to Friday inclusive, with 19 working days of 8 hours each, between the hours of 7:00am and 6:00pm, with 0.4 of one hour on each day worked accruing as an entitlement to take a day off as rostered in each cycle paid as though worked.
(b) The Employer will nominate as the rostered day either:
(i) the 3rd Friday in the cycle; or
(ii) the 4th Monday in the cycle; or
(iii) the 4th Friday in the cycle.
(c) By agreement between an Employer and a majority of Employees, an alternate day in the 4-week cycle may be the rostered day, and where such agreement is reached all provisions of this Agreement will apply as if such day was the rostered day. Employees may nominate a representative, which may be the Union, to meet and confer with the Employer about alternative rostered days off.
(d) Employees who are members of the Union may be represented by the Union in meeting and conferring with the Employer about an alternative rostered day off, and the Employer must give the Union a reasonable opportunity to meet and confer about the matter. Union involvement in this process does not mean that the consent of the Union is required prior to the introduction of an agreed alternative rostered day off.
(e) The nominated day will be recorded in the time records of the Employer. An Employer will not change the rostered day without prior notice of 10 working days.
For Plumbing Industry Employees. An Employer may determine its Base Employment Site by reference to one of the following options:
A. The Employer’s normal base establishment or workshop; or
B. The GPO or Principal Post Office of the cities of Ballarat, Bendigo, Geelong or Melbourne for all Employers whose base establishment or workshop is within the Radius from the relevant Post Office; or
C. The local Post Office closest to the Employer’s establishment or workshop beyond the Radius of the Post Offices listed above;
For Plumbing Industry Employees. Day Full-time and part-time Employees Casual Employees % ordinary hourly rate % ordinary hourly rate
For Plumbing Industry Employees. 36.1.1 An employee, whose clothes, spectacles, hearing aid or tools have been accidentally spoilt by acid, sulphur or other substances, will be paid an allowance to cover the loss as may be agreed between the employee and employer.
36.1.2 An employee will be reimbursed to a maximum of $1308.10 for tools of trade as are ordinarily required for the performance of the employee’s duties which are:
(a) lost by fire or by breaking and entering while stored in a room or building on or adjacent to an employer’s premises, job or workshop; or
(b) lost by fire or breaking and entering while stored in a room or building on or adjacent to an employer’s premises, job or workshop during an employee’s absence due to illness or injury which has been notified to the employer in accordance with clause 48.4 of this Agreement; or
(c) lost or stolen whilst being transported by the employee.
36.1.3 When an employer requires an employee to wear spectacles with toughened glass lenses the employer will reimburse the cost of the toughening process or the cost of the new lenses. This subclause will not apply where the employer pays for toughening.
For Plumbing Industry Employees. All overtime worked beyond the ordinary hours prescribed by clause 37 of this Agreement will be paid at the rate of time and a half for the first hour and double time thereafter. Work commenced after midnight and prior to the commencement of ordinary time will be paid at the rate of double time.
For Plumbing Industry Employees. Except as provided elsewhere in this Agreement as it applies to Plumbing Industry Employees, the average ordinary hours will be 38 per week worked in accord with the following provisions for a 4 week work cycle.
37.2.1 Ordinary working hours will be worked in a 20 day 4 week cycle Monday to Friday inclusive, with 19 working days of 8 hours each, between the hours of 7:00am and 6:00pm, with 0.4 of one hour on each day worked accruing as an entitlement to take a day off as rostered in each cycle paid as though worked.
For Plumbing Industry Employees. (a) The tool allowance is included in the base rates of pay prescribed in Appendix 2 of this Agreement to compensate for the purchase and maintenance in efficient working order of the tools required to perform the duties of the employee as specified in subclauses 32.1(b), (c), (d) and (f);
(b) One pair each of the following:
(c) One set of each of the following:
(d) One each of the following:
(e) An Employee will only be required to have available at any time those tools specified above as are necessary for the proper performance of the work or job being done by them.
