HOSPITAL WORKERS (GOVERNMENT) AWARD NO. 21 OF 1966

WESTERN AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION

PARTIES Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union, Western Australian Branch

APPLICANT

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The Board of Management Princess Margaret Hospital AND OTHERS

RESPONDENTS

CORAM Commissioner P E Scott

DATE TUESDAY, 6 fEBRUARY 2007

FILE NO APPL 92 OF 2006

CITATION NO. 2007 WAIRC 00063

Result Award Varied

Order

HAVING heard Ms E Palmer on behalf of the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union, Western Australian Branch and Mr J Ross on behalf of the respondents, and by consent, the Commission, pursuant to the powers conferred under the Industrial Relations Act 1979, hereby orders:

THAT the Hospital Workers (Government) Award No. 21 of 1966 be varied in accordance with the following Schedule and that such variation shall have effect from the beginning of the first pay period commencing on or after the 5th day of January 2007.

Commissioner P E Scott

SCHEDULE

1. Clause 15. – Overtime:  Delete subclause (4) of this clause and insert the following in lieu thereof:

(4) Where an employee is required to work overtime and such overtime is worked for a period of at least two hours in excess of the required daily hours of work, the employee shall be provided with a meal free of cost, or shall be paid the sum of $8.30 as meal money.

2. Clause 16. – Shift Work:  Delete this clause and insert the following in lieu thereof:

(1) Subject to subclause (2) of this clause, a loading of $2.20 per hour or pro rata for part thereof shall be paid for time worked on afternoon or night shift as defined hereunder:

(2) A loading of $3.32 per hour or pro rata for part thereof shall be paid for time worked on permanent afternoon or night shift.

(3) Clause (16)(1)(a) of this clause does not apply to an employee who on any day commences his/her ordinary hours of work at or after 12 noon and completes those hours at or before 6.00pm on that day.  Provided that employees in receipt of shift allowance shall not have that allowance decreased by the operation of this subclause.

(4) For purposes of subclause (2) of this clause an employee shall be deemed to have been working permanent afternoon or night shift where such employee works that shift as part of a non-rotating roster.

(5) Junior workers shall be paid a percentage of the loadings prescribed in subclauses (1) and (2) of this clause.  The percentage will be as prescribed in subclause (2) of Clause 39. - Wages for Junior Hospital Employees.

3. Clause 17. – Weekend Work:  Delete this clause and insert the following in lieu thereof:

(1) In addition to the ordinary rate of wage prescribed by this award an employee shall be paid a loading of $8.90 per hour or pro rata for part thereof for ordinary hours worked between midnight on Friday and midnight on Saturday.

(2) In addition to the ordinary rate of wage prescribed by this award an employee shall be paid a loading of $17.75 per hour or pro rata for part thereof for ordinary hours worked between midnight on Saturday and midnight on Sunday.

(3) Junior workers shall be paid a percentage of the loadings prescribed in subclauses (1) and (2) of this clause.  The percentage will be as prescribed in subclause (2) of Clause 39. - Wages for Junior Hospital Employees.

(4) The rates prescribed herein shall be in substitution for and not cumulative on the rates prescribed in Clause 16. - Shift Work of this award.

4. Clause 19. – Allowances and Special Provisions:  Delete this clause and insert the following in lieu thereof:

In addition to the rates prescribed in Clause 39. - Wages of this award, the following allowances shall be paid:

(1) (a) Employees handling foul linen in the course of their duties shall be paid 99 cents per hour or any part thereof, to a maximum of $3.00 per day.

(b) Employees handling materials such as carpet tiles, curtains, sealed bags or fabrics, which have become soiled in the same manner as foul linen as defined in Clause 5. - Definitions, shall be paid an allowance according to subclause (1)(a) of this clause.

(2) Orderlies employed on boiler firing duties - $2.08 per day.

(3) Orderlies required to handle a cadaver - $1.73 per hour with a minimum payment of one hour.

(4) Orderlies - Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, sterilising sputum mugs - $2.08 per day.

(5) (a) A storeman required to operate a ride-on power operated tow motor, a ride-on power operated pallet truck or a walk-beside power operated high lift stacker in the performance of his/her duties shall be paid an additional 44 cents per hour whilst so engaged.

(b) A storeman required to operate a ride-on power operated fork lift, high lift stacker or high lift stock picker or a power operated overhead traversing hoist in the performance of his/her duties shall be paid an additional 58 cents per hour whilst so engaged.

(6) A Food Service Attendant who is required to reconstitute frozen food and/or reheat chilled food, in addition to or in substitution of their normal duties, shall be paid an allowance of 71 cents per hour or part thereof whilst so engaged.

5. Clause 21. – Public Holidays:  Delete subclause (3) of this clause and insert the following in lieu thereof:

(3) Any employee who is required to work on a day observed as a public holiday shall be paid a loading of $26.75 per hour or pro rata for part thereof in addition to his/her ordinary rate of wage or if the employer agrees be paid a loading of $8.90 per hour or pro rata for part thereof in addition to his/her ordinary rate of wage and be entitled to observe the holiday on a day mutually acceptable to the employer and employee.

6. Clause 22. – Public Holidays – Graylands and Selby Lodge/Lemnos Hospitals:  Delete subclause (3)(c) of this clause and insert the following in lieu thereof:

(c) Any employee who is required to work on the day observed as a holiday as prescribed in this clause in his/her normal hours work or ordinary hours in the case of a rostered employee shall be paid a loading of $8.90 per hour or pro rata for part thereof and be entitled to observe the holiday on a day mutually acceptable to the employer and the employee.

Provided that in any specified 12 monthly period, after an employee has accumulated five days in lieu of public holidays, by agreement between the employee and the employer, the employee may be paid for work performed on a day observed as a holiday as prescribed in this clause a loading of $26.75 per hour or pro rata for part thereof in addition to his/her ordinary rate of wage in lieu of the foregoing provisions of this subclause.

7. Clause 28. – Uniforms:  Delete subclause (8)(d) of this clause and insert the following in lieu thereof:

(d) All washable clothing forming part of the uniforms supplied by the employer shall be laundered free of cost to the employee.  Provided that in lieu of such free laundering the employer may pay the employee $1.65 per week to partly cover the cost of same.

8. Clause 39. – Wages:  Delete subclause (4)(b) of this clause and insert the following in lieu thereof:

(b) Except where this clause specifies classifications which require the employee to be in charge of other employees, any employee who is placed in charge of:

(i) not less than three and not more than ten other employees shall be paid $20.65 per week in addition to the ordinary wage prescribed by this clause;

(ii) more than 10 and not more than twenty other employees shall be paid $30.95 per week in addition to the ordinary wage prescribed by this clause;

(iii) more than 20 other employees shall be paid $41.20 per week in addition to the ordinary wage prescribed by this clause.