| MA000070 PR729329 |
| FAIR WORK COMMISSION |
DETERMINATION |
Fair Work Act 2009
s.285—Annual wage review
Annual Wage Review 2020–21
(C2021/1)
CEMETERY INDUSTRY AWARD 2020
[MA000070]
Cemetery operations | |
JUSTICE ROSS,PRESIDENT | MELBOURNE,25 JUNE 2021 |
Annual Wage Review 2020–21.
A. Further to the decision issued by the Expert Panel in the Annual Wage Review
2020–21 on 16 June 2021 [[2021] FWCFB 3500],the above award is varied as follows:
1. By deleting the table appearing in clause 14.1 and inserting the following:
Classification | Minimum weekly rate | Minimum hourly rate |
$ | $ | |
Cemetery Employee Class 1 | 772.60 | 20.33 |
Cemetery Employee Class 2 | 825.20 | 21.72 |
Cemetery Employee Class 3 | 853.60 | 22.46 |
Cemetery Employee Class 4 | 899.50 | 23.67 |
Cemetery Employee Class 5 | 946.50 | 24.91 |
Cemetery Employee Class 6 | 972.20 | 25.58 |
2. By deleting the words “1 November 2020”in clause 14.7(b) and inserting “1 July 2021”.
3. By deleting the amount “$33.35”appearing in clause 16.2(b) and inserting “$34.18”.
4. By deleting the amount “$18.43”appearing in clause 16.2(c)(i) and inserting “$18.89”.
5. By deleting the amount “$40.37”appearing in clause 16.2(c)(ii) and inserting “$41.38”.
6. By deleting the amount “$10.53”appearing in clause 16.2(d) and inserting “$10.79”.
7. By deleting the amount “$78.11”appearing in clause 16.2(e)(i) and inserting “$80.06”.
8. By deleting the amount “$93.90”appearing in clause 16.2(e)(ii) and inserting “$96.25”.
9. By deleting the amount “$156.21”appearing in clause 16.2(e)(iii) and inserting “$160.11”.
10. By deleting the amount “$78.11”appearing in clause 16.2(e)(iv) and inserting “$80.06”.
11. By deleting the table appearing in clause 16.2(f) and inserting the following:
Age of grave since last burial (years) | ||||
5 but less | 10 but less | 25 but less | more | |
$ | $ | $ | $ | |
per occasion | 78.26 | 58.47 | 38.68 | 19.79 |
12. By deleting the amount “$47.39”appearing in clause 16.2(g)(i) and inserting “$48.57”.
13. By deleting the amount “$23.70”appearing in clause 16.2(g)(ii) and inserting “$24.29”.
14. By deleting the table appearing in clause B.2.1 and inserting the following:
| Ordinary hours | Public holiday |
% of ordinary hourly rate1 | ||
| 100% | 250% |
$ | $ | |
Cemetery Employee Class 1 | 21.23 | 53.08 |
Cemetery Employee Class 2 | 22.62 | 56.55 |
Cemetery Employee Class 3 | 23.36 | 58.40 |
Cemetery Employee Class 4 | 24.57 | 61.43 |
Cemetery Employee Class 5 | 25.81 | 64.53 |
Cemetery Employee Class 6 | 26.48 | 66.20 |
15. By deleting the table appearing in clause B.2.2 and inserting the following:
| Monday to Saturday | Monday to Saturday | Sunday | Public holiday |
% of ordinary hourly rate1 | ||||
| 150% | 200% | 200% | 250% |
$ | $ | $ | $ | |
Cemetery Employee Class 1 | 31.85 | 42.46 | 42.46 | 53.08 |
Cemetery Employee Class 2 | 33.93 | 45.24 | 45.24 | 56.55 |
Cemetery Employee Class 3 | 35.04 | 46.72 | 46.72 | 58.40 |
Cemetery Employee Class 4 | 36.86 | 49.14 | 49.14 | 61.43 |
Cemetery Employee Class 5 | 38.72 | 51.62 | 51.62 | 64.53 |
Cemetery Employee Class 6 | 39.72 | 52.96 | 52.96 | 66.20 |
16. By deleting the table appearing in clause B.3.1 and inserting the following:
| Ordinary hours | Public holiday |
% of ordinary hourly rate 1 | ||
| 125% | 275% |
$ | $ | |
Cemetery Employee Class 1 | 26.54 | 58.38 |
Cemetery Employee Class 2 | 28.28 | 62.21 |
Cemetery Employee Class 3 | 29.20 | 64.24 |
Cemetery Employee Class 4 | 30.71 | 67.57 |
Cemetery Employee Class 5 | 32.26 | 70.98 |
Cemetery Employee Class 6 | 33.10 | 72.82 |
17. By deleting the amount “$877.60”appearing in clause C.1.1 and inserting “$899.50”.
18. By deleting the table appearing in clause C.1.1 and inserting the following:
Allowance | Clause | % of standard rate | $ | Payable |
Industry allowance1 | 16.2(b) | 3.8 | 34.18 | per week |
Leading hand—Class 5 and above—in charge of 2 to 6 employees | 16.2(c)(i) | 2.1 | 18.89 | per week |
Leading hand—Class 5 and above—in charge of more than 6 employees | 16.2(c)(ii) | 4.6 | 41.38 | per week |
First aid allowance | 16.2(d) | 1.2 | 10.79 | per week |
Exhumation allowance—body buried for 14 days or less | 16.2(e)(i) | 8.9 | 80.06 | per body |
Exhumation allowance—body buried for 14 days to 7 years and arterially embalmed and sealed in approved container | 16.2(e)(ii) | 10.7 | 96.25 | per body |
Exhumation allowance—body buried for 14 days to 7 years and not arterially embalmed and sealed in approved container | 16.2(e)(iii) | 17.8 | 160.11 | per body |
Exhumation allowance—body buried for more than 7 years | 16.2(e)(iv) | 8.9 | 80.06 | per body |
Lift and deepen allowance—age of grave since last burial—5 to 10 years | 16.2(f) | 8.7 | 78.26 | per occasion |
Lift and deepen allowance—age of grave since last burial—10 to 25 years | 16.2(f) | 6.5 | 58.47 | per occasion |
Lift and deepen allowance—age of grave since last burial—25 to 50 years | 16.2(f) | 4.3 | 38.68 | per occasion |
Lift and deepen allowance—age of grave since last burial—more than 50 years | 16.2(f) | 2.2 | 19.79 | per occasion |
Excavation allowance—first body | 16.2(g)(i) | 5.4 | 48.57 | for first body |
Excavation allowance—each additional body from the same grave | 16.2(g)(ii) | 2.7 | 24.29 | per additional body |
B. This determination comes into operation on 1 July 2021. In accordance with s.286(5) of the Fair Work Act 2009 this determination does not take effect in relation to a particular employee until the start of the employee’s first full pay period that starts on or after 1 July 2021.
PRESIDENT
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