CLOTHING TRADES (STATE) INDUSTRIAL COMMITTEE

 

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION OF NEW SOUTH WALES

 

Application by The Textile Clothing and Footwear Union of New South Wales, industrial organisation of employees.

 

(No. IRC 1002 of 2015 | 2016/19364)

 

 

ORDER

 

The Commission orders that:

 

1.         The Industrial Committee, known as the Clothing Trades (State) Industrial Committee, published 10 August 2012 (373 I.G. 2086), be dissolved.

 

2.         There be established a new Clothing Trades (State) Industrial Committee for the Industries and Callings of:

 

All persons engaged in:

 

(a)        making and/or repairing and/or altering the whole or any part of any male or female garment or of any article of wearing apparel whatsoever, made from material of any description, including all articles of neckwear and excluding only boots, shoes, slippers, gloves and headwear, except as provided in (b);

 

(b)        making and/or trimming and/or blocking and/or repairing and/or altering and/or remodelling all articles of women's and girl's headwear, excepting male employees engaged in blocking by hand or machines;

 

(c)        making and/or repairing and/or altering any description of umbrella other than canvas umbrellas;

 

(d)        making and/or repairing and/or altering any description of handkerchiefs, serviettes, pillowslips, pillowshams, sheets, tablecloths, towel, quilts, aprons, mosquito nets, bad valances, or bed curtains;

 

(e)        embroidering or otherwise ornamenting any of the abovementioned articles, including the making and/or manufacturing or such ornamentations as are made of textiles, felts or similar fabrics;

 

(f)        in or in connection with the manufacture of artificial flowers;

 

(g)        making and/or altering and/or remodelling and/or repairing of all types of garments or articles, other than toys, made in the establishment of a furrier;

 

(h)        the making of chenille and the making and/or repairing and/or altering of articles of all descriptions as are made of chenille;

 

in the State of New South Wales, excluding the County of Yancowinna;

 

excepting employees employed in the making and/or repairing of furnishing drapery and/or quilts in a furniture or furnishing drapery factory or establishment, including retail store or warehouse;

 

and excepting employees within the jurisdiction of the Rubber Workers (State), the Plastic Moulding (State) and the Textile Workers (State) Industrial Committee.

 

3.         The said Committee shall consist of two representatives of employees and two representatives of employers with the final position being such other person as the Industrial Registrar or the Deputy Industrial Registrar may nominate as Chairman of the Industrial Committee.

 

4.         The representatives of employees shall be appointed, upon nomination, as prescribed by The Textile Clothing and Footwear Union of New South Wales.

 

5.         The representatives of employers shall be appointed, upon nomination, as prescribed by the NSW Business Chamber Limited, the Australian Retailers Association, New South Wales Division, and the Australian Federation of Employers and Industries.

 

6.         This order shall take effect on and from 5 February 2016 and shall remain in force for a period of three years thereafter.

 

 

 

M. J. WALTON  J, President.

 

 

 

 

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Printed by the authority of the Industrial Registrar.