C2002/3051, Transcript of Proceedings [2003] AIRCTrans 526 (18 February 2003)

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TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS


O/N VT1538

AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRIAL

RELATIONS COMMISSION

SENIOR DEPUTY PRESIDENT HARRISON

C2002/3051
C2002/3060

TRANSPORT WORKERS (PASSENGER VEHICLES)
AWARD 1984

Applications under section 113 of the Act
by the Transport Workers' Union of Australia
to vary the above award re the insertion
of Part One provision for a 38 hour week
and to provide for the finalisation of
the minimum rates and structural efficiency
adjustments

MELBOURNE

2.03PM, MONDAY, 3 FEBRUARY 2003

Continued from 3.10.02

PN58

THE SENIOR DEPUTY PRESIDENT: Are there any changes to the appearances in either of these matters?

PN59

MS D. WHYTE: No your Honour.

PN60

THE SENIOR DEPUTY PRESIDENT: Now, I was just trying to remember where we had got to. Ms Whyte, maybe you will help me with that.

PN61

MS WHYTE: Yes. Your Honour, I believe where the matters were last left, I was proposing a meeting with the South Australian Bus and Coach Association and their representatives. That meeting took place in September. Following that - at that meeting the Association proposed a number of matters that they identified as being possible issues to trade off for the 38 hour week. They also indicated their position with regard to the minimum rates application. I responded to that in October, I believe, last year and we had a further exchange of correspondence late last month. We have met again today. The position with regard to the 38 hour week is this; the parties are hopeful that a consent position can be reached in the next couple of weeks. Both parties are confident that they are very close. We perhaps need to have one or two more discussions, then that should be finalised.

PN62

With regard to the minimum rates application, the parties aren't as confident. Having said that, we still propose to have another meeting in about a month's time and if your Honour pleases, I wouldn't mind an opportunity, perhaps, to go off record and discuss some programming issues. That, I think, subject to what Mr Livesay has to say, Mr Lambert, I think, represents the position of everyone. If it pleases the Commission.

PN63

THE SENIOR DEPUTY PRESIDENT: All right. Yes. Mr Lambert?

PN64

MR LAMBERT: I have nothing to add, your Honour.

PN65

THE SENIOR DEPUTY PRESIDENT: No. Mr Tanner?

PN66

MR TANNER: Yes, nothing to add, if the Commission pleases.

PN67

THE SENIOR DEPUTY PRESIDENT: All right. Shall we go off transcript then and talk about whether we need any further dates and what we do next. All right, we will go off transcript.

NO FURTHER PROCEEDINGS RECORDED