Re Crown Employees (New South Wales Fisheries Salaries and Conditions of Employment) Award [2003] NSWIRComm 405

Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales

CITATION : Re Crown Employees (New South Wales Fisheries Salaries and Conditions of Employment) Award [2003] NSWIRComm 405 Public Service Association and Professional Officers Association Amalgamated Union PARTIES : New South Wales Fisheries Public Employment Office FILE NUMBER: IRC5207 of 2002 and IRC2392 of 2001 CORAM: Walton J Vice-President; Sams DP; Cambridge C CATCHWORDS : Dispute notification - Application for new award - Referral to Full Bench - Jurisdiction - Power to make award setting minimum staffing levels - Re-argue earlier decision - Question of leave - Interpretation of s22 of Public Sector Management Act 2002 - Statutory interpretation - Literal and purposive interpretation - Re-enactment rule of statutory interpretation - Creation of position - Vacant position - Casual and temporary appointments - Application dismissed. Industrial Relations Act 1996 LEGISLATION CITED : Public Sector Management Act 1988 Public Sector Management Act 2002 Public Service Act 1979 Alcan Australia Ltd, Ex parte Federation of Industrial Manufacturing and Engineering Employees Re (1994) 181 CLR 96 Application to vary NSW TAFE Commission (Teachers and Other Educational Staff Salaries and Conditions) Award 1996 Re (unreported, Matter No 4111 of 1998, 29 May 1999) CIC Insurance v Bankstown Football Club (1997) 141 ALR 618 Clerks, Wholesale Hardware, etc. Metropolitan) Board Re [1928] AR (NSW) 224 Flaherty v Girgis (1987) 162 CLR 574 Iron and Steel Works Employees (Australian Iron & Steel Limited - Port Kembla) and Other Awards Re [1945] AR(NSW) 64 Lynch v GC Schmidt Pty Limited (1995) 59 IR 205 Mills v Meeking (1990) 91 ALR 16 CASES CITED : Public Service Association of NSW v Industrial Commission (1985) 1 NSWLR 627 Public Service Association (NSW) v Public Service Board (NSW) (1986) 14 IR 414 R v Reynhoudt (1962) 107 CLR 381 State Wage Case 2002 (2002) 114 IR 81 Storeworkers - IGA Distribution Pty Limited New South Wales Distribution Centres Award 2002 [2002] NSWIRComm 156 Thorburn v Federated Municipal and Shire Council Employees' Union of Australia, New South Wales Division (1969) IAS Current Review 160 Timothy Fox v GIO Australia Limited (2002) 56 NSWLR 512 WorkCover Authority of NSW (Inspector Keenan) v Lucon (Australia) Pty Limited [2002] NSWIRComm 68 Zickar v MGH Plastic Industries Pty Limited (1995-1996) 187 CLR 31 HEARING DATES: 02/25/2003; 05/12/2003 DATE OF JUDGMENT: 12/01/2003