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FAIR WORK REGULATIONS 2009 - REG 6.03 Meaning of pieceworker

FAIR WORK REGULATIONS 2009 - REG 6.03

Meaning of pieceworker

  (1)   For section   21 of the Act, as modified by section   754 of the Act, this regulation prescribes a class of non - national system employees as pieceworkers.

Note:   Section   754 of the Act modifies section   21 by giving it effect as if a paragraph   21(1)(d) were added.

  Under the new paragraph   21(1)(d), a pieceworker is a non - national system employee who is in a class of employees prescribed by the regulations as pieceworkers.

  (2)   The class is non - national system employees who:

  (a)   are paid a rate set by reference to a quantifiable output or task; and

  (b)   are not paid a rate set by reference to a period of time worked.

Examples of rates set by reference to a quantifiable output or task

1   A rate of pay calculated by reference to the number of articles produced.

2   A rate of pay calculated by reference to the number of kilometres travelled.

3   A rate of pay calculated by reference to the number of articles delivered.

4   A rate of pay calculated by reference to the number of articles sold.

5   A rate of pay calculated by reference to the number of tasks performed.