Metropolitan Health Service Board Engineering and Building Services Enterprise Agreement 2000

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2000 WAIRC 01347

Metropolitan Health Service Board Engineering and Building Services Enterprise Agreement 2000

No. AG 248 of 2000

1.TITLE

This Agreement shall be titled the Metropolitan Health Service Board Engineering and Building Services Enterprise Agreement 2000.

2.ARRANGEMENT

1.Title

2.Arrangement

3.Application and Parties Bound

4.Term of Agreement

5.No Extra Claims

6.Objectives and commitments

7.Relationship with Awards and Agreements

8.Rates of Pay and their Adjustment

9.Dispute Settlement Procedure

10.Salaries

11.Signatories

3.APPLICATION AND PARTIES BOUND

(1)This Agreement applies to the employees covered by Metropolitan Health Service Board Engineering and Building Services Enterprise Award 1999, and binds the following parties:

(a)The Metropolitan Health Service Board (MHSB).

(b)The Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information, Postal, Plumbing & Allied Workers Union of Australia – Engineering & Electrical Division – Western Australian Branch.

(c)The Plumbers and Gasfitters Employees’ Union of Australia, Western Australian Branch, Industrial Union of Workers.

(d)The Automotive, Food, Metal, Engineering, Printing & Kindred Industries Union of Workers, Western Australian Branch.

(e)Construction, Mining, Energy, Timberyards, Sawmills & Woodworkers Union of Australia, Western Australian Branch.

(f)The Western Australian Builders Labourers, Painters and Plasterers Union of Workers.

(2)The estimated number of employees covered by this Agreement at the time of registration is 208.

(3)This Agreement shall be read in conjunction with the Metropolitan Health Service Board Engineering and Building Services Enterprise Award 1999 (the Award) and shall replace the provisions of that Award where expressly stated herein. To the extent of any inconsistency between the Award and this Agreement, this Agreement shall take precedence.

(4)Nothing in this clause shall diminish the commitments and duties of the parties as identified in Appendix B – Workplace Reform of the Award.

4.TERM OF AGREEMENT

(1)This Agreement shall operate from the date of Registration until it’s expiry 24 months after the date of registration.

(2)The parties to this Agreement agree to commence negotiations for a new Agreement no later than 6 months prior to the expiry of this Agreement.

5.NO EXTRA CLAIMS

Subject to the terms of this Agreement, for the life of this Agreement, the Unions bound by it shall make no further claims upon the MHSB.

6.OBJECTIVES AND COMMITMENTS

(1)The parties are committed to improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the engineering and building services which support the operations of all MHSB hospitals. The parties acknowledge that such improvement will be to the mutual benefit of the community of Western Australia, the Metropolitan Health Service and employees thereby enhancing the career opportunities and job security of employees.

(2)The parties are committed to continue to constructively engage in the progression of matters detailed in Appendix B – Workplace Reform of the Metropolitan Health Service Engineering and Building Services Enterprise Award (the Award).

(3)The parties are committed to identifying, during the life of this agreement, measures of workforce productivity for the purposes of establishing baseline productivity levels thereby facilitating the quantification of future productivity improvement.

7.RELATIONSHIP WITH AWARDS AND AGREEMENTS

Consistent with the Industrial Relations Act 1979 and the State Wage Principles, this Agreement shall provide the whole of the employees’ wage increases for the life of this Agreement.

8.RATES OF PAY AND THEIR ADJUSTMENT

(1)This Agreement provides for the following salary increases:

(a)4% from the date of registration of this agreement.

(b)3% from 12 months after the date of registration of this agreement.

(2)The pay increase at (1)(a) is payable from the date of registration of this Agreement in respect to the endorsement by all parties of the competency profiles which have been developed by the MHSB in the implementation of the Engineering National Competency Standards [as defined in paragraph (1) of sub-clause (1), Appendix B – Workplace Reform of the Award]. It is agreed by all parties that the process of the implementation has been properly and exhaustively undertaken, that the methods of work identification have been both thorough and appropriate, and the competency profiles thus developed properly reflect the skills and competencies utilised within the MHSB.

(3)The pay increase specified at (1)(b) is conditional upon, and payable upon the achievement of, the following objectives, provided that it shall not be available prior to 12 months after the date of registration of this agreement.

(a)The parties to this Agreement shall have identified, reached agreement upon, and endorsed the competencies necessary for the progressive implementation of the Hospital Maintenance Technician as described in paragraph (1) of sub-clause (2) Appendix B – Workplace Reform of the Award.

(b)The parties to this Agreement shall have made significant progress towards concluding, to at least the same degree as articulated in subclause (2) of this clause for engineering trades competencies, the development and articulation of such building trades competency standards as are applicable to the hospital maintenance environment. Such competency standards shall, to the fullest extent possible, be based upon applicable building trades national competency standards.

(c)The parties to this Agreement shall have made significant progress towards identifying measures of workforce productivity for the purposes of establishing baseline productivity levels.

(4)Nothing in this clause shall diminish the commitments and duties of the parties as identified in Appendix B – Workplace Reform of the Award.

9.DISPUTE SETTLEMENT PROCEDURE

Subject to the Industrial Relations Act 1979, in the event of any question, dispute, grievance or difficulty, or any matter raised by the respondent Unions, the MHSB or any of its employees covered by this Agreement, it shall be settled in accordance with Clause 11 – Dispute Resolution of the Award.

10.SALARIES

(1)This clause replaces Appendix A – Salaries of the Award.

(2)Rates of Pay

Subject to this Agreement, employees shall be paid the rates of pay specified in the following table in accordance with the level to which they are from time to time classified.

11. SIGNATORIES

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Chief Executive Officer

Metropolitan Health Service Board.

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Communications, Electrical, Electronic, Energy, Information,

Postal, Plumbing & Allied Workers Union of Australia –

Engineering & Electrical Division – Western Australian Branch.

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Secretary

Plumbers and Gasfitters Employees’ Union of Australia, Western

Australian Branch, Industrial Union of Workers.

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Secretary

Automotive, Food, Metal, Engineering, Printing & Kindred

Industries Union of Workers, Western Australian Branch.

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Secretary

Construction, Mining, Energy, Timberyards, Sawmills &

Woodworkers Union of Australia, Western Australian Branch.

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Secretary

Western Australian Builders Labourers, Painters and Plasterers

Union of Workers.

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