Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009
Fair Work Commission
Terrace Tower
Level 10, 80 William Street
EAST SYDNEY NSW 2011
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR THE REGISTRATION OF
AN ASSOCIATION OF EMPLOYEES
(D2013/135)
NOTICE is given that an application has been made under the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009 for the registration of an association called the “Australian Directors Guild Limited” as an organisation of employees.
A copy of the application has been published on the website of the Fair Work Commission at: <http://www.fwc.gov.au> (under “Registered Organisations”, click on “Gazette Notices").
Alternatively, a copy of the application can be obtained on request from the Fair Work Commission. Requests should be directed to the Regulatory Compliance Branch, Fair Work Commission, Level 10, 80 William Street, East Sydney NSW 2011 (Fax: (02) 9380 6990 or E-mail: orgs@fwc.gov.au).
The eligibility rules of the association are:
“8 INDUSTRY
8.1 The Guild shall consist of persons, otherwise eligible for membership, who are engaged in work in the following industries involving the production and/or creation of:
(a) motion picture film;
(b) video;
(c) digital media and technologies;
(d) television;
(e) arts and entertainment;
(f) music clips;
(g) animation;
(h) commercial advertising; and/or
(i) any other like or related industry as presently constituted or may in the future be constituted as a result of any technical, scientific, creative or commercial developments or discoveries.
9. ELIGIBILITY FOR MEMBERSHIP
9.1 The Guild shall consist of an unlimited number of persons employed, or likely to be employed, on any contractual, weekly, daily or other basis of employment as Screen Directors in connection with any of the industries referred to in Clause 8 and who:
(a) have exhibited, published, broadcast or communicated to the public in any medium associated with any of the industries referred to in clause 8 a minimum of twenty minutes of credited screen time,; and.
(b) normally reside within Australia.
9.2 “Screen Directors” for the purpose of the preceding clause 9.1 means persons who perform one or more of the following functions in the course of the production and/or creation of sound and images on any screen for the projection or display of audio visual images, including but not limited to cinema screens, television screens and computer screens:
(a) implementation of a budget, allocated by a producer;
(b) the interpretation and execution of the concepts developed by a producer into a cinematic, television, digital or other screen format;
(c) the planning, presentation and execution of on-screen cosmetics including shot selection, camera direction and treatment (shots, movement and editing) and the integration of staging treatments such as: make up, set design, camera, graphics, music, video tape or film items and voiceovers;
(d) the integration and execution of the cinematic, television, digital or other screen production live to air, or to recording;
(e) the direction of any style or size of the cinematic, television, digital or other screen production;
(f) the direction of all cast and crew and any other creative talent.
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9.5 The Guild shall also consist of such independent contractors who, if they were employees performing work of the kind which they usually perform as independent contractors, would be employees eligible for membership of the Guild.”
Any interested organisation registered under the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009, association or person who desires to object to the application may do so by lodging with the Regulatory Compliance Branch, Fair Work Commission, a notice of objection accompanied by a written statement within thirty-five (35) days after the publication of this advertisement and by serving on the association, whose address for service is Australian Directors Guild Limited, PO Box 211, Rozelle, NSW, 2039 within seven (7) days after the notice of objection has been lodged, copies of the notice of objection and written statement so lodged.
Bernadette O’Neill
General Manager
Fair Work Commission