MODERN AWARDS – 4 yearly review – s.156 Fair Work Act 2009 – Full Bench – in a Statement issued on 6 July 2016 [[2017] FWCFB 4495] it was proposed that the National Training Wage Schedule (the NTW Schedule) be standardised and removed from all awards except the Miscellaneous Award 2010 (Miscellaneous Award) and be incorporated by reference to the Miscellaneous Award – in a Statement issued on 23 February 2017 [[2017] FWCFB 1095] the Full Bench announced that the NTW Schedule of the Miscellaneous Award would be re-drafted in plain language – Full Bench made provisional view that NTW Schedule would be tailored to a particular modern award on request – Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) and Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union – Construction and General Division (CFMEU) subsequently applied to maintain award-specific schedules in a number of awards – in a decision issued on 9 June 2017 [[2017] FWCFB 3176] a reference term to the Miscellaneous Award was inserted into 94 modern awards – Full Bench confirmed that award-specific schedules will be maintained in nine modern awards – terms of the award-specific NTW Schedules to be dealt with after finalisation of plain language NTW Schedule in the Miscellaneous Award – draft determinations incorporating the reference term published 13 June 2017 – final determinations were issued and came into operation on 1 July 2017 – submissions received from several parties in response to plain language drafting of NTW Schedule – conference held 21 July 2017 to discuss outstanding issues – decision concerns finalisation of terms of plain language NTW Schedule – an updated NTW Schedule is set out in Attachment A of decision – parties were required to provide any comments on the draft by 18 August 2017 – a determination varying the schedule in the Miscellaneous Award will then be issued – draft schedules of the nine awardspecific NTW Schedules will be published in week commencing 21 August 2017 – submissions are invited to comment on the draft schedules by 4pm Friday on 8 September 2017 – reply submissions are invited by no later than 4pm on Friday 22 September 2017 – Full Bench to determine content of the awardspecific NTW Schedules and whether they should be included in the nine modern awards on the papers – any requests for oral hearing to be made by 4pm on Tuesday 25 September 2017 – submissions to be sent to [email protected]. 4 yearly review of modern awards – National Training Wage
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