5.1.2 Australia Post

5.2 Who the award applies to
This award applies to all employees employed in classifications listed in Schedule A - salary rates subject to any limitations or exclusions specified within the award.

6. RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHER AWARDS AND DETERMINATIONS

6.1 Relationship with other awards

6.1.1 Previous award
This award supersedes the Australia Post Operations (Interim) Award 1995 [Print M9494 [AW766599]] but no right, obligation or liability incurred under that award will be affected by such supersession.

6.1.2 General conditions
Employees covered by this award, with the exception of the temporary part-time employees covered by clause 11 - Temporary part-time support service officers and clause 12 - Temporary part-time attendant/chef employees are covered by all provisions in the Australia Post General Conditions of Employment Award 1999 [Print S0871 [A1686]].

6.2 Inconsistency with determinations
This award will be read in conjunction with determinations made from time to time under s.89 of the Australian Postal Corporation Act 1989.

6.2.1 Where a determination is inconsistent with the provisions of this award, the latter will prevail.

PART 2 - SALARY RATES AND ALLOWANCES

7. SALARY RATES

7.1 Classifications and salary rates

7.1.1 The classifications covered by this award and the respective salary rates are specified in Schedule A - Salary rates.

7.1.2 Where an employee was an Australia Post employee immediately prior to 20 January 2000, that employee may be eligible for a higher rate in accordance with Schedule C.

7.2 Junior rates

Subject to any conditions otherwise prescribed, an employee under 21 years of age and who is employed in the classifications listed in Table 1 below will be paid an annual salary, calculated to the nearest dollar, by applying the appropriate percentage for the age of the employee as specified in Table 2 below, to the minimum Total award rate of an adult employee of the same classification.

Table 1
Agency Assistant Grade 1
Agency Assistant Grade 2
Attendant
Mail Officer
Mail Room Officer
Parcel Post Officer
Postal Delivery Officer
Retail Post Trainee
Sprintpak Level 1
Trainee Mail Officer
Trainee Parcel Post Officer
Trainee Postal Delivery Officer
Trainee Postal Services Officer Table 2

Age of Employee   Percentage of Minimum Adult Salary    %
   Under 17 years      50
   At 17 years         60
   At 18 years         70
   At 19 years         81
   At 20 years         91

8. SALARY ADVANCEMENT CONDITIONS

8.1 Salary advancement conditions

8.2 New employees
New employees will commence on the Trainee level provided that a trained employee who resumes employment with Australia Post can be engaged at the base level if competency for this level is demonstrated.

8.3 Salary advancement - permanent employees
Trainees will be advanced to the relevant base level salary after three months employment.

8.4 Salary advancement - casual / fixed term employees
A casual or fixed term employee will commence at the Trainee level and be advanced to the base level after three months aggregate employment in any twelve-month period.

8.5 Juniors

8.6 Probation
New employees will be on probation for a period of three months, provided that the engagement can be terminated before the end of the 3 month period. This provision operates in lieu of Clause 12.2.1 of the General Conditions of Employment Award 1999.

9. ALLOWANCES

9.1 Dirty cleaning work allowance
An employee required to perform cleaning work which in the opinion of the person in charge is of an unusually dirty or offensive nature will be paid an allowance at the rate specified at Item 1 of Schedule B - Allowances whilst so employed.

9.2 Divide allowance

9.2.1 Eligible classifications
An employee employed in a classification of Postal Delivery Officer, Senior Postal Delivery Officer Grade 1, Senior Postal Delivery Officer Grade 2 or Senior Postal Delivery Officer Grade 3 who is utilised to deliver, in addition to one of the normal three rounds, a portion (being not less than 100 delivery points) of a round other than one of the normal three rounds, will be paid the divide allowance specified at Item 2 of Schedule B - Allowances.

9.2.2 Relief employee
A relief employee who is utilised to deliver a portion (being not less than 100 delivery points) of a round in addition to the round being delivered that day, will be paid the divide allowance prescribed in 9.2.1.

9.2.3 Trainee
A Trainee Postal Delivery Officer who is performing Postal Delivery Officer duties will be paid the divide allowance prescribed in 9.2.1.

9.3 Gladstone locality allowance
An employee living and working in Gladstone, Queensland, in addition to all other remuneration except District Allowance, will be paid an allowance as follows:

9.3.1 Dependants
An amount equal to the amount shown at Item 3 of Schedule B - Allowances for employees with dependants;

9.3.2 Without dependants
An amount equal to the amount shown at Item 3 of Schedule B - Allowances for employees without dependants.
An employee employed as a Postal Services Officer or Senior Postal Services Officer Grade 1 who performs the in-charge supervisory role during extended trading hours at a retail facility will be paid an allowance to raise salary to the salary shown at Item 4 of Schedule B - Allowances.

9.5 Parcel post allowance
An employee while employed full-time on Parcel Post duties and on the full range of duties will receive in addition to normal salary an allowance at the rate per annum shown at Item 5 of Schedule B - Allowances if the employee holds or acts in one of the following classifications:
9.5.1 Postal Transport Officer.
9.5.2 Parcel Post Officer.
9.5.3 Senior Parcel Post Officer Grade 1.
9.5.4 Senior Parcel Post Officer Grade 2.

9.6 Postal delivery officer functional allowance
An employee employed as Postal Delivery Officer, Senior Postal Delivery Officer Grade 2 (non-relief employee) or Senior Postal Delivery Officer Grade 3 who is utilised to deliver one or more rounds other than the normal 3 rounds will be paid the functional allowance specified at Item 6 of Schedule B - Allowances.

9.7 Sorting allowance
A Postal Transport Officer who:
9.7.1 has completed a prescribed course of training in sorting; and
9.7.2 is required on any day or part of a day to undertake manual sorting duties of outward mail using geographical knowledge, postcode or other sorting cues; and
9.7.3 is subject to prescribed sorting standards
will be paid such allowance as is necessary to raise the salary for the day to the salary prescribed for Postal Delivery Officer in Schedule A - Salary Rates.

PART 3 - HOURS OF DUTY

10. HOURS OF DUTY

10.1 General

10.1.1 Except as otherwise provided in this award, the ordinary hours of duty of employees will be 36.75 per week over a cycle of shifts.

10.1.2 The daily hours of ordinary duty will not exceed 7 hours 21 minutes except where work is performed with a reduced number of attendances, in which case the daily hours of ordinary duty will not exceed 8 hours 10 minutes.

10.2 Retail employees
The ordinary hours of duty of retail employees will be 36.75 per week Monday to Friday, provided that:

10.2.1 Australia Post will be permitted to roster employees for weekend duty and other than within the limits of 8.00 a.m. and 6.00 p.m.;

10.2.2 no employee will be rostered for ordinary duty on more than five days in any seven day period;

10.2.3 an employee rostered for ordinary duty between 6.30 a.m. and 8.00 a.m. Monday to Friday will receive a penalty of 50% of their ordinary rate for the time worked between those hours;

10.2.4 an employee may, with Australia Post's agreement, work a reduced number of attendances over a cycle of weeks, provided that the hours of duty over those weeks will average 36.75 hours per week.

10.3 Postal delivery officers

10.3.1 Subject to 10.3.2 and 10.3.3, the ordinary hours of duty of Postal Delivery employees will be 36.75 per week to be worked eight hours on Monday, seven hours on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and 7.75 hours on Friday.

10.3.2 Where operational requirements necessitate the working of an eight hour or 7.75 hour day regularly on any day other than Monday or Friday respectively, that day may be substituted for the Monday or Friday specified in 10.3.1.

10.3.3 Where an employee was employed as a Postal Sorting Officer immediately prior to the incorporation of his classification in the Postal Delivery officer classification, and the daily hours of ordinary duty were 7 hours and 21 minutes, such ordinary hours of duty will be retained.

10.4 Facilitative provisions

Hours of duty provisions in this award can be varied in accordance with facilitative provisions contained in clause 21 of the Australia Post General Conditions of Employment Award 1999 [Print S0871 [A1686]].

PART 4 - TYPES OF EMPLOYMENT

11. TEMPORARY PART-TIME SUPPORT SERVICES OFFICERS

11.1 Scope
The provisions in this clause only apply to temporary part-time Support Services Officers who were employed at 27 December 1995 under the Australia Post (Postal Workers) Award 1985 [A0170] and who elected to remain under the conditions in that award instead of transferring to the standard permanent part-time conditions, contained in this award and the Australia Post General Conditions of Employment Award 1999. The standard permanent part-time conditions do not apply to employees covered by this clause.

11.2 Rates Of pay

11.2.1 Rate of pay
Employees are to be paid no less than the hourly rate which is the equivalent (calculated on a 36.75 hour week basis) of the minimum rate prescribed for a full-time Support Services Officer of the appropriate level.

11.2.2 Loading
This hourly rate is to be increased by a loading of 12.5% for all time worked up to and including seven hours 21 minutes in any day or 36.75 hours in any week with the following exception. The loading is not applied where it would raise the total salary for a period of seven hours 21 minutes or less in any day or a period of 36.75 hours or less in any week beyond the total salary that an employee earning the same hourly rate without the 12.5% loading would earn for a total of seven hours 21 minutes in a day or a total of 36.75 hours in a week as the case may be.

11.2.3 Minimum payment
Irrespective of the rate of pay prescribed at 11.2.1 and the loading at 11.2.2, an employee must be paid a minimum of two hours pay for attendance on any day or shift.

11.2.4 Loading On annual leave
The 12.5% loading prescribed in 11.2.2 is to continue to be paid during annual leave.

11.3 Leave
An employee employed under this clause is entitled to the same annual and sick leave conditions as permanent part-time employees.

11.4 Overtime, holidays, shift, Saturday, Sunday duty
An employee employed under this clause is entitled to the same conditions as permanent part-time employees in respect of:

11.4.1 Holidays and holiday duty
11.4.2 Shift duty.
11.4.3 Saturday duty.
11.4.4 Sunday duty; and
11.4.5 Overtime.

12. TEMPORARY PART-TIME ATTENDANT/CHEF EMPLOYEES

12.1 Scope
This clause only applies to temporary part-time Attendant, Senior Attendant, and Chef employees who were employed at 27 December 1995 under the Australia Post (Postal Workers) Award 1985 [A0170] and who elected not to transfer to the standard conditions for permanent part-time employees contained in this award and the Australia Post General Conditions of Employment Award 1999. The standard permanent part-time conditions do not apply to employees covered by this clause.

12.2 Loadings
12.2.1 A part-time employee must be paid no less than the hourly rate which is equivalent (on a 36.75 hour week basis) to the minimum weekly wage payable to a full-time employee of the same classification plus a loading of:
12.2.1(a) 100% for work performed on a Sunday or holiday;
12.2.1(b) 33.33% for work performed on any other day.
12.2.2 The minimum payment of any part-time employee for any one tour of duty will not be less than the amount payable to that employee for three hours' work and provided further that the earnings of a part-time employee (other than earnings on a Sunday or holiday) over a period of 36.75 hours will not exceed the weekly wage payable to a full-time employee of the same classification.

12.3 Annual leave - employees in New South Wales and Victoria
Part-time employees employed in the States of New South Wales and Victoria are to be granted annual leave as provided in the relevant State Annual Holidays Act.