• Clause 5.3.2.4 First Aid Allowance $11.75 per week ($11.35)

• Clause 8.7.4.1 Motor Vehicle Allowance 68c per kilometre (66c)

• Clause 5.3.12.1 Dental Assistants Radiography Allowance $597 per annum ($576)

• Clause 5.3.19 Allowance for handling badly decomposed bodies $20.85 ($20.11) per badly decomposed body

• Clause 5.3.18.1 Pharmacist-in-Charge Allowance: a pharmacist classified as a PSO1 or PSO2 level, who is nominated in charge of a pharmacy of a public hospital on a Saturday, Sunday or public holiday, shall be paid a pharmacist-in-charge allowance of $1.55 per hour ($1.50)

• Clause 5.3.16 Supervising Radiographer Allowance $3.05 ($2.95) will be paid each shift where applicable

• Clause 5.3.9.1 Academic Allowance. An employee who is now classified as ASO1 and who prior to 1 June 1991 was in receipt of an academic allowance of $463 per annum will continue to be paid that allowance

• Clause 5.3.13.1 Fisheries Officers Allowance

• An officer whilst at sea will be paid the following allowance, for each completed 24 hour period or part thereof where such part is 7.5 hours or more. Commercial vessel in excess of 12 metres in length, OPS3 = $145 ($140), OPS4 = $163 ($157), OPS5 = $176 ($170). Other vessels, OPS3 $91 ($88), OPS4 $94 ($91), OPS5 $96 ($93)

• Clause 5.3.13.6 Coxswains Certificate Allowance of $263 per annum ($254)

• Clause 5.3.13.7 Master Class V Certificate of Competency shall be paid an allowance of $445 per annum ($429)

• Clause 5.3.17 Diving Allowance. Employees who are required to dive in the normal course of their duties should be paid the following allowances:

• Clause 5.3.17.2 An employee who is an experienced diver in addition to his/her ordinary rate will be paid an allowance of $29.35 ($28.30) per week.

• Clause 5.3.17.3 Where an employee on any day performs work as a Supervising Diver $21.45 ($20.70)

• Clause 5.3.17.4 An Employee, who on any day performs work as a diver in addition to his/her ordinary classified rate be paid an allowance as follows:

• Clause 5.3.17.5 If an experienced diver (in addition to the allowance in 5.3.17.2 hereof) $39.80 ($38.40) per day.

• Clause 5.3.17.6 If a trainee, $31.70 ($30.60) per day

• Clause 5.3.17.7 Diver's attendant $15.65 per day ($15.10)

The above Award allowances were adjusted in accordance with the 2007 General Application to Review Award Wages Decision [2007] SAIR Commission, by 3.66355%. The minutes for these increases were settled in the Industrial Relations Commission on 4 December 2007. The Department of Premier and Cabinet will then advise pay offices, through the Chief Executive, of these increases.

• Linguistics Allowance, which is paid in accordance with the Part-time Interpreters and Translators (Public Service) (SA) Award, has yet to be adjusted, but will increase from $632.20 to $655.00 payable from the first pay period on or after 1 October 2006.

• On-call allowance is paid as per Clause 10 of the South Australian Government Wages Parity (Salaried) Enterprise Agreement 2006.

• An employee who is rostered to be on-call of a night time will be paid an allowance of $13.40 ($12.90) for each night.

• An employee who is rostered to be on-call during a full Saturday, Sunday or public holiday or any day that the employee would normally be rostered off duty will be paid an allowance of $26.70 ($25.80) per day.

• Clause 5.3.3 of the SAPSSEI Award is the Safety Net only ($8.75 and $19.45), and is not the rate paid.

Other allowances, which include allowances for meals, incidentals and tea money, (ie Clauses 8.2, 8.5, 8.6, 5.3.1.2, 5.3.1.3 and 5.3.13.4), are to be increased from the first pay period on or after 23 December 2007. The allowances relating to South Australia will be increased by the movement in the Adelaide Consumer Price Index (CPI) from the September Quarter 2006 to the September Quarter 2007, which was 1.4%.

The allowances relating to interstate will be increased by the movement in the weighted average of eight capital cities CPI from the September Quarter 2006 to the September Quarter 2007, which was 1.9%.

PSA will advise members of the new rates after they have been approved by the Industrial Relations Commission. Pay offices do not pay increases until they receive official advice from the Public Sector Workforce Division of the Department of the Premier & Cabinet. Any back pay owing should then be paid.

For any queries relating to the contents of this Brief, please contact PSA Senior Industrial Officer Ian Peak on ian@cpsu.asn.au

4 December 2007