Letting of Contracts at Central TAFE Public Hearing AM session

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1/2/rds MUSSON, STEVEN DAVID: THE COMMISSIONER: Good morning everyone. We are continuing with the witness Mr Steven Musson who is present in the hearing room and is still of course on oath. Mr Tooker? TOOKER, MR: Thank you, Commissioner. Mr Musson, I want to return to something that we dealt with yesterday and that's the $100 an hour that Arwa Saleh-Evans was paid as a casual employee during 2002. My first question is this: the GOSAC Award 1989 has a formula, does it not, for the payment of a casual employee?---Not at that level I don't - - - That's not my question but I want to take this in steps? ---Yeah. The GOSAC Award has a formula for the payment of casual employees, doesn't it?---To be honest I don't quite recall what's in there in that regard. Let me tell you that the GOSAC Award sets out how an hourly rate is to be determined by a casual employee. Tell me if this strikes a resonance with you: it says that the fortnightly rate must be divided by 75 because there's 75 hours in a fortnight, and then you add 20 per cent because they don't get leave. That's what the GOSAC Award determines, doesn't it?---Look, without actually having it in front of me, I mean, I can't answer one way or the other there. I mean - - - I don't have this on the screen to show you but this is the Government Officers Salaries, Allowances and Conditions Award 1989. Central TAFE is a signatory to the GOSAC Award, isn't it?---Yes. So the GOSAC Award governs in part the employment of staff at Central TAFE. Correct?---Correct. I will just show you this hard copy of a document and I will ask you to focus on clause 10, Casual Employment, to the back of the document?---Sorry, what did you want me to focus on? Clause 10, Casual Employment. Do you have that?---Sorry, I'm just finding it. To the very back, the last page?---Sorry. It has a formula for determining the hourly rate of a casual employee, does it not?---Yes; yes. It's the fortnightly salary divided by 75?---Yes. 4/10/06 MUSSON, S.D. XN 172 10.02 Spark & Cannon
1/3/rds And then you add 20 per cent for the leave?---Yes; yes, that's right. That's my understanding of how - - - All right. There's a $100 an hour that Arwa Saleh-Evans got. What public sector level did that equate to?---I'm not sure and I'm not even sure that she got a hundred dollars an hour. Yeah; I thought what she was getting was level 8.3, you know, plus the 20 per cent loading and that sort of thing. So, yeah - I mean, it was a long time ago. I can't remember specifically what she was getting. I think you are referring to the second period of casual employee where she got $53.09. I'm focusing on the hundred dollars an hour. You didn't on that occasion do any calculation in accordance with the GOSAC Award to come to that figure of a hundred dollars, did you?---Honestly I can't recall; you know, I wouldn't have personally done the calculation anyway. I mean, it would've gone to the payroll area and they would've processed it I assume based on someone's authorisation, either myself or someone like Gary Fitzgerald. 4/10/06 MUSSON, S.D. XN 173 Spark & Cannon
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