Graphic Arts, Printing And Publishing Award 2020

The Graphic Arts, Printing and Publishing Award 2020 applies to employers throughout Australia in the graphic arts, printing, publishing and associated industries and occupations and their employees listed in the classifications, to the exclusion of any other Modern Award.

Graphic arts, printing, publishing and associated industries and occupations means the following industries, parts of industries and occupations:

• Composing, reading, electrotyping, stereotyping, letterpress machining, lithographic machining, lithographing, screen printing, printing of all classes, slug-casting or type-casting machine attending and adjusting and/or repairing;
• Type-founding;
• Engraving, process engraving and/or photo engraving;
• Commercial and/or lithographic designing, writing and/or drawing;
• Publishing;
• Despatching which is incidental to the industries or parts of industries covered by the award;
• Book-binding, binding, paper ruling and/or paper cutting;
• Paper making, paper working, calico and/or paper bag making;
• Envelope making, stationery making and/or paper products working;
• Embossing;
• Cardboard box making, carton making (including the making of any kind of boxes and/or containers of paper and/or cardboard used alone or in combination with any other material or materials);
• Mailing houses, including (without limiting the generality or ordinary meaning of the phrase) folding, paging, numbering, perforating, gathering, collating, inter-leaving, wrapping, sealing, addressing, mailing, despatching, stamping, inserting, security paper working, wire stapling, envelope working, direct mail systems working, addressograph work, paper products work and machine work in or in connection with enveloping, sealing, automatic/computer addressing and/or wrapping;
• Creation of designs, concepts or layouts used or intended to be used in the advertising or marketing of commodities or service or for other uses in or in connection with the industry of commercial and industrial art, the execution of finished art, that is, the preparation of individual components of finished art (including illustrations, borders, retouching of photographs, photographic reproportioning and lettering by hand or transfer) and the final assembly of these components (including the paste up of reproduction type, profiling illustrations, key line drawings etc);
• Production of non-daily and daily newspapers, which includes any business, trade, manufacture, undertaking, calling, service, employment, handicraft or industrial occupation in the printing and any kindred industries;
• Commercial and industrial art within the production described in the award;
• The composing or imposition or assembly of matter which is to be printed and the transfer of images by use of cameras or scanners or transparency duplications to obtain a relief of planographic or intaglio formation for printing; and
• Plastics manufacturing or any of the processes of or incidental to the manufacturing of plastics or of goods manufactured therefrom or substitutes therefore but only to the extent that such manufacturing or processes are incidental to printing