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972 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, W.A. {15 May, 1953.
where the time lost through sickness
exceeds four (4) consecutive working days,
the employer may demand from the
apprentice the production of a medical
certificate and a further certificate or cer-
tificates may be required if any time is
lost through sickness within seven (7) days
from the date of resumption of duty, the
cost, if any, of such certificate of certificates
not exceeding five shillings (5s.)
to be borne by the employer;
an apprentice shall not be entitled to receive
any wages from his employer for any
time lost through the result of an acci-
dent, not arising out of or in the course
of his employment, or for any accident
or sickness arising out of his own wilful
default.
(U) In the event of, and whilst work is not
available, for an apprentice in the calling to which
he is bound, he may be employed in some other
occupation connected with this Award during such
period; provided, however, that this provision shall
not be deemed to authorise any action on the
part of the employer that might jeopardise the
training of the apprentice in his proper calling.
(v) The training of apprentices to blacksmithing,
fitting and turning shall include in their fourth
and fifth years, instruction in electric welding and!
or oxy acetylene welding as far as is practicable
with the facilities available in the shop in which
they are trained.
The provisions of clause 6 (c) of this Award
shall not apply to apprentices while they are receiving
such instruction.
24.Attendance Allowance.
Each member of the Amalgamated Engineering
Union of Workers, Collie Branch, and the Australasian
Society of Engineers, Collie River Districts
Branch, who works for the eleven award
working days comprising a pay period shall, in
respect of that period, if the Colliery at which he
works has been in production on each of the eleven
ordinary working days, be entitled (in addition
to his ordinary earnings) to payment as for a shift
at the appropriate rate for him.
(b) Each member of the Amalgamated Engineering
Union of Workers, Collie Branch, and the
Australasian Society of Engineers, Collie River
Districts Branch, who is absent from work for a
portion of a pay period on paid sick leave or on
workers' compensation, but who works on all other
award working days during the said period shall,
in respect of that period, if the colliery at which
he works has been in production on each of the
eleven ordinary working days of the pay period,
be entitled (in addition to his ordinary earnings)
to payment of one-eleventh of a shift at the appropriate
rate for him for each day worked by him.
(a) Where during a pay period the colliery
has been out of production through the occurrence
of a recognised holiday, a mechanical breakdown,
a fire, a flood or through a strike by members
of another Union. subject to it having worked for
the production of coal on all other ordinary working
days during the said period, each member of
the Amalgamated Engineering Union of Workers,
Collie Branch, and the Australasian Society of
Engineers, Collie River Districts Branch, who on
all of the award working days comprising the said
pay period attends for work and is available to
perform such work as the management may reasonably
require, shall be entitled in respect of that
period (in addition to his ordinary earnings) to
payment of one-eleventh of a shift at the appropriate
rate for him for each production day worked
by him.
(b) Where during a pay period the colliery has
been out of production through the occurrence
of a recognised holiday, a mechanical breakdown,
a fire, a flood or through a strike by members of
another Union, subject to it having worked for
the production of coal on all other ordinary working
days during the said period, each member of the
Amalgamated Engineering Union of Workers, Collie
Branch, and the Australasian Society of Engineers,
Collie River Districts Branch, who is absent from
work for portion of the said pay period on paid
sick leave or workers' compensation, but who on
all other award working days of the said period
attends for work and is available to perform such
work as the management may reasonably require,
shall be entitled to in respect of that period (in
addition to his ordinary earnings) to payment of
one-eleventh of a shift at the appropriate rate
for him for each production day worked by him.
This clause shall be deemed to have commenced
to operate on and from the beginning of
the pay period current on 3rd May, 1951, and shall
remain in force until further order.
Dated at Collie this 4th day of February, 1953.
W. J. WALLWORK,
Chairman, W.A. Coal Industry Tribunal.
IN THE COURT OF ARBITRATION OF
WESTERN AUSTRALIA.
No. 41 of 1953.
Between The West Australian Local Governing
Bodies' Officers' Association, Union of Workers,
Perth. Applicant, and Albany Municipal
Council. the Albany Road Board and others,
Respondents.
HAVING heard Mr. V. Ulrich on behalf of the
applicant and Mr. A. S. Cowan on behalf of the
respondents and by consent, I, the undersigned,
Conciliation Commissioner of the Court of Arbitration,
in pursuance of a remission to me by the
Court of Arbitration and in pursuance of the
powers contained in section 92 of the Industrial
Arbitration Act, 1912-1952, do hereby order and
declare that Award No. 41 of 1947, as amended, be
and the same is hereby further amended in the
manner following:
Clause 1Scope is amended as follows:By
deleting the clause and inserting a new clause as
follows:
This Award shall apply to all Local Authorities
(the City of Perth Municipality, The Kalgoorlie
Municipality, Boulder Municipality, City
of Fremantle Municipality and Kalgoorlie Road
Board excepted) throughout the State of Western
Australia.
Clause 3Definitions, subclause (e) be
amended by deleting subclause (e) and inserting a
new subclause as follows:
"Local Authority" shall mean any Municipality
(the City of Perth, Kalgoorlie, Boulder and
City of Fremantle Municipalities excepted)
Road Board (Kalgoorlie Road Board excepted)
Health Board, Water Board, Vermin
Board or Drainage Board.
Liberty to apply is granted in respect of any
further amendment to Clauses 1 and 3.
Dated at Perth this 24th day of April, 1953.
(Sgd.) S. F. SCHNAARS,
Conciliation Commissioner.
WEST AUSTRALIAN COAL INDUSTRY
TRIBUNAL.
In the matter of the Mining Act Amendment Act
No. 84 of 1948, Part XIII, Division 1, and in
the matter of an Industrial Award No. 12 and
13 of 1934, in the matter of an industrial dispute
wherein the Amalgamated Engineering
Union of Workers, Collie Branch, The Australasian
Society of Engineers Collie River Dis-
trict Union of Workers, and Amalgamated
Collieries of W.A. Ltd. and others are parties,
and in the matter of a claim by the applicant
Unions for a variation of Award No. 12 and
13 of 1934 (now Award No. 1 of 1953 of the
West Australian Coal Industry Tribunal) to
amend clause 19 (now clause 23) subclause
(e) (1). (Applications No. 16 and 24 of
1952 W.A.C.I.T.)