Follow these steps to work out which award covers a recycling business:
- Identify the industry of the business and the materials being recycled. This helps to identify which industry award can cover the employer.
- If there’s an industry award that covers the employer, consider the duties of the employee and whether there’s a classification that applies to the employee.
- If there’s more than one industry award, choose the award that best covers the employee’s job duties and where the employee works.
Some awards which cover recycling activities include:
- Manufacturing Award
- Cement, Lime and Quarrying Award
- Timber Award
- Waste Award
References
Cement, Lime and Quarrying Award
Modern Awards Review 2012 - two year review of all modern awards - Waste Management Award 2010 [2013] FWC 10151 - talks about how to identify award coverage of recycling activities.
What to do next
- Find out about Awards & agreements
- Find out more about Employment contracts
- Test your knowledge about awards and agreements with our Workplace Basics quiz
- Find out about the Award classifications
- Find out about Other workplace relations help
