Crown Employees (Public Service Training Wage) Award 2005 [2007] NSWIRComm 1017

Industrial Relations Commission of New South Wales

CITATION: Crown Employees (Public Service Training Wage) Award 2005 [2007] NSWIRComm 1017

APPLICANT Public Service Association and Professional Officers Association Amalgamated Union of NSW PARTIES: RESPONDENT Director of Public Employment

FILE NUMBER(S): 229 of 2007

CORAM: Macdonald C

CATCHWORDS: Application for variation to an Award - application granted

LEGISLATION CITED: Industrial Relations Act 1996

HEARING DATES: 06/03/2007

DATE OF JUDGMENT: 6 March 2007

APPLICANT Ms R Small LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES: RESPONDENT Mr S Spence

DECISION: - 1 - INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES

CORAM: MACDONALD C

6 March 2007

Matter No IRC 229 of 2007

Crown Employees (Public Service Training Wage) Award 2005

Application by Public Service Association and Professional Officers Association Amalgamated Union of New South Wales for approval of an application to vary an Award

DECISION

[2007] NSWIRComm 1017

1 This decision is issued further to the extempore approval granted for the Crown Employees (Public Service Training Wage)Award 2005 ("the Award"). 2 On 26 February 2007, the Public Service Association And Professional Officers Association Amalgamated Union of New South Wales ("the Union") made application to vary the Award, pursuant to section 17 of the Industrial Relations Act 1996 ("the Act").

The application named the other parties to the Award as the Director of Public Employment (Public Employment Office) ("the P.E.O.") and Unions New South Wales. 3 The matter was set down for Consent Hearing on 6 March 2007. The Union was represented by Ms R Small who also represented Unions New South Wales. The P.E.O. was represented by Mr R Spence. 4 Ms R Small spoke to the application which sought to expand the range of diplomas that are available for traineeships in the Public Service. Currently, the Award lists and specifies one only traineeship (Diploma Level Trainee - Information Technology). This application deletes the name of that traineeship and substitutes a generic term: "Diploma Level Trainee", and defines that term.