Award compliance better
December 16, 2013
THe Fair Work Ombudsman
(FWO) has released the results of
its national pharmacy audit, which
the Guild says “shows significant
progress in award compliance
across the industry.”
“The Guild is confident - and
the national audit confirms - that
the overwhelming majority of
community pharmacies act in
good faith to comply fully with
the complex requirements of the
Pharmacy Industry Award,” said
Guild executive director David Quilty.
Overall compliance was 75%, with
the non-compliance rate “within
FWO tolerances,” he added, and
certainly a big improvement on the
44% non-compliance rate found
in the Queensland audit in 2010
which triggered the national audit.
“The progress shown in the
national audit reflects the Guild’s
work, co-operatively with the
FWO, to remind pharmacy owners
of the need to be diligent in
understanding and meeting their
obligations under the award.”
No interns were found to be
underpaid in any of the audits, with
some contraventions relating to the
complex uniform allowance clause.
However union group Professional
Pharmacists Australia said the
figures confirmed that thousands
of pharmacists are “subjected
to illegal workplace practices,”
with the audit finding 599 cases
of underpayments, with over
$280,000 paid back to staff.
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