4.1 This award covers employers throughout Australia of employees in the joinery and building trades industries and occupations who are covered by the classifications in the award and those employees.
4.4 This award covers any employer which supplies labour on an on-hire basis in the industry (or industries) set out in clause 4.8(a) in respect to on-hire employees in classifications covered by this ward, and those on-hire employees, while engaged in the performance of work for a business in that industry (or those industries).
4.5 This award covers any employer which supplies on-hire employees in occupations set out in clause 4.8(b) covered by classifications in this award and those on-hire employees, if the employer is not covered by another modern award containing a classification which is more appropriate to the work performed by the employee.
4.7 This award covers employer which provide group training services for apprentices and/or trainees engaged in the industry (or industries), parts of industry and/or occupations set out at clauses 4.8(a) and 4.8(b) and those apprentices and/or trainees engaged by a group training service hosted by a company to perform work at a location where the activities described herein are being performed. Clause 4.7 operates subject to the exclusions from coverage in this award.
4.8 Joinery and building trades industries and occupations means:
(a) the following industries:
(i) joinery work
(ii) shopfitting
(iii) prefabricated building
(iv) stonemasonry
(v) glass and glazing contracting
(vi) glass and glazing work
(b) the following occupations:
(i) carver
(ii) letter cutter
(iii) carpenter
(iv) joiner
(v) signwriter
(vi) painter
(vii) stonemason
(viii) plasterer
3. Definitions and interpretations
3.1 In this award, unless the contrary appears:
carver means an employee who carves any kind of stonework which does not come within the definition of a stonemason, for the decoration of buildings or other stonework, from a model or freehand design.
glass and glazing contracting means the business of principally providing glass and glazing work on a contract basis.
glass and glazing work means:
(a) the designing, bevelling, cutting, embossing or glazing by hand or machine, painting, silvering, sand-blasting, bending or otherwise working of all types of glass used in the trade, as well as leadlights, spandrel panels, clear plastic, sheet acrylic or any substitute therefore, glass lenses or prisms;
(b) the fitting and/or fixing in position of all types of glass used in the trade, as well as louvers, spandrel panels, glazing bars, clear plastic, or glass lenses or prisms in domestic on site situations;
(c) the packing and delivery of all types of glass used in the trade, as well as louvers, spandrel panels, leadlights, glazing bars, fibreglass, clear plastic, sheet acrylic or any substitute therefore, glass lenses or prisms including any labouring work in connections with any such operations;
(d) the toughening, heat treating or laminating of glass or safety glass;
(e) the fabrication, assembly, glazing and installation of Insulation Glass units;
(f) every operation, process, duty and function carried on or performed in or in connection with or incidental to any of the foregoing.
joinery work means work performed by the classifications contained in this award in a joinery shop, provided such establishment is not located on an 'on-site' construction project, and includes the preparation, decoration and assembling of joinery or building components principally in timber or similar material.
letter cutter means an employee who marks out, sandblasts, cuts or finishes letters or decoration in any kind of stone.
on-hire means the on-hire of an employee by their employer to a client, where such employee works under the general guidance and instruction of the client or a representative of the client.
outside work means erection or assembly work performed at the employer's premises but outside of enclosed factory buildings on the prefabricated sections, modules or panels of any building principally made out of timber or similar material.
prefabricated building means prefabrication of the sections, modules or panels of any building principally made out of timber or similar material, including buildings or sections supplied in kit form, where the prefabrication is done at a factory or yard prior to erection or siting in a permanent or semi-permanent position, or outside work.
shopfitting means the manufacture, installation, alteration and/or repair of shopfronts, showcases, partitions involving wrap around glazing, partitions (including the insertion of glass panels where the glass is 6.35 millimetres or less in thickness, by beads or mould or other dry glazing methods) and exhibitors' stands, and the installation or alteration of interior fittings and fixtures in or on buildings.
signwriter means an employee who does any of the following work:
(a) signwriting, designing and/or lettering of price tickets and showcards;
(b) pictorial and scenic paintings, or production of signs and posters by means of stencils, screens, computers or like methods, or any other work incidental thereto; and
(c) without limiting the generality of the foregoing includes:
(i) lettering of every description, size or shape applied by brush on any surface or material;
(ii) designing for windows, posters, show window and theatre displays, honour rolls, illuminated addresses, neon signs, stencils, display banners;
(iii) gilding (i.e. the application of gold, silver, aluminium or any metal leaf to any surface);
(iv) designing and laying out of cutout displays of all descriptions, either pictorial, scenic or lettering;
(v) the designing, setting up and the operation for duplication of signs on any material; and
(vi) the making of stencils and stencilling by screens or any other method and the making and/or fixing of transfers.
stonemason means an employee engaged in the dressing or setting of any kind of stonework that has to be cut to a mould or template or which has to be proven by a square or straight edge or set to a line or a level.
stonemasonry means any work performed in a stonemason’s yard or factory, and/or similar work performed in a cemetery.