Education Services (Teachers) Award 2020 [MA000077]

Choose this work type when annual leave was taken.

Compassionate Leave

Unpaid Leave

Long Service Leave

Choose this work type when long service leave was taken.

Time off in lieu of Overtime

Use this work type when an employee elects to receive time off in lieu rather than be paid for any overtime they are entitled to for this shift. This only applies to employees employed in early childhood services operating for at least 48 weeks per year. Refer to Schedule B (B.4.2) of the Award.

 

Use this work type to record the number of kilometres an employee has travelled using a motorcycle in the performance of their duties, up to a maximum of 400 kilometres per week. Refer to clause 15.4(a)(ii) of the Award. 

Vehicle Allowance - Motor Car
Use this work type to record the number of kilometres an employee has travelled using a motor vehicle in the performance of their duties, up to a maximum of 400 kilometres per week. Refer to clause 15.4(a)(i) of the Award.

 

Use this work type where an employee has worked on a gazetted public holiday.

10 hr shift (approved by employee)

Choose this work type when, by agreement between an employer and a permanent employee, the employee is rostered for up to 10 hours (rather than the usual 8 hours). This only applies to employees employed in early childhood services operating for at least 48 weeks per year. Refer to Schedule B (B.1.3) of the Award.

 

Use this work type where an employee employed in an early childhood service is required to remain on the premises during their meal break. Such meal break will be paid. Refer to clause 20.2 of the Award.

Minimum Half Day

Use this work type when a casual employee employed in a school needs to be paid for a minimum of half a day. Refer to clause 14.5(b)(i) of the Award.

 

Assign this tag to an employee who is rostered on a non-rotating night shift whereby their shifts do not rotate or alternate with other shifts so as to give the employee at least one third of their shifts off night shift in each roster cycle. Such employee will be paid a 30% shift loading for hours worked. 

Assign this tag to an employee where agreement has been made between the employee and employer that the employee will accrue 24 minutes for each eight hour day worked to give the employee an entitlement to take rostered days off. This only applies to employees employed in early childhood services operating for at least 48 weeks per year. Refer to Schedule B (B.2) of the Award.

 

Apply this tag to an employee who is undertaking shift work in accordance with Schedule B.5.2 of the Award. This only applies to employees employed in early childhood services operating for at least 48 weeks per year

 

Assign this tag if the employee elects to always accrue time in lieu rather than be paid overtime.

Key Updates

 July 2024

1st

We have updated the award to reflect the Fair Work Commission's National Minimum Wage increase detailed in the Annual Wage Review 2023-24 decision and also includes updates to expense-related allowances. You can find more information on the Determinations here and here.

These changes come into effect from the first full pay period on or after the 1st July 2024. Please install these updates after you have finalised your last pay run before the first full pay period beginning on or after the 1st July 2024.

We have also updated the "Community Service Leave Taken" pay category, where it accrues leave. The payment classification has also been updated in line with the ATO specification categories.

The Education (Teachers) Casual - Long Day Care Centres and Education (Teachers) Permanent - Long Day Care Centres rule sets has been updated to include a rule for Paid Family Domestic Violence Leave.

Director's Allowance and Leadership Allowance have also been updated so they are not paid as all-purpose allowances as indicated in the pay guide. 

September 2023

19th

We have updated the Leadership allowance pay rates across all levels. 

August 2023

1st

From 1 August, all employees are entitled to 10 days of paid family and domestic violence leave each year. The (Unpaid) Family and Domestic Violence Leave configuration settings under awards have been updated - the leave category is disabled from award leave allowance templates, and the work type is not enabled automatically for all employees. Please ensure that employees no longer use the unpaid leave category or work type.

July 2023

We have updated the award to reflect the Fair Work Commission’s National Minimum Wage increase detailed in the Annual Wage Review 2022-23 decision and also includes updates to expense-related allowances. You can find information on the Determinations for MA000038 here and here, for MA000039 here and here. These changes come into effect from the first full pay period on or after the 1st July 2023. Please install these updates after you have finalised your last pay run before the first full pay period beginning on or after the 1st July 2023.

January 2023

1 July 2022

The Award has been updated to reflect the Fair Work Commission’s National Minimum Wage increase of detailed in the Annual Wage Review 2021-22 decision. This also includes updates to expense-related allowances. Information on the Determinations can be found here and here. These changes come into effect from the first full pay period on or after 1 July 2022. Please install these updates AFTER you have finalised your last pay run prior to the first full pay period commencing on or after 1 July 2022.

 

January 2022

The award has been updated to reflect decisions made as part of the Full Bench of the Fair Work Commission Determination to alter the classification structure and pay rates. Also part of the determination, rate increases have been made to the Director's and Leadership Allowances. Further, a new Educational Leader Allowance has also been created.

New Employment Agreements (EAs) and Pay Rate Templates (PRTs) have been created in line with the new classification structure. 

All employees need to be updated and assigned new Employment Agreements. The Pay Condition Rule Sets Education (Teachers) Permanent, Education (Teachers) Casuals, Education (Teachers) Permanent - Long Day Care Centres, Education (Teachers) Casual - Long Day Care Centres have been updated in line with these changes. 

Additionally, we have simplified the rules pertaining to all purpose allowances. Refer to the list of tags in determining what tag is relevant to be assigned to each employee for the all-purpose allowances required to be paid. All purpose allowances will still be calculated using the 'base' pay category and applicable multiplier however we no longer need to assign a specific Employment Agreement and Pay Rate Template that were originally created.

These changes come into effect from the first full pay period on or after 1 January 2022. Please install these updates AFTER you have finalised your last pay run prior to the first full pay period commencing on or after 1 January 2022.

The pay categories included for Casual Ordinary Hours have been updated.

November 2021

The Award has been updated in line with the ATO's requirements for STP Phase 2 reporting. The reporting of gross earnings are now being disaggregated into distinguishable categories. The Pay Category payment classifications have been updated in line with the ATO specification categories found here. For further information please see our STP support article.

August 2021

Updates have been made to the Unpaid Pandemic Leave allowance Templates so that the balance is displayed in weeks instead of hours in line with the Fair Work Commission's guidelines.
Once the award update is installed, all employee’s Unpaid Pandemic leave balances will be displayed in weeks not hours. This will mean that an employee’s balance may now show as 76 weeks. In order to correct the balance please see How to Fix Unpaid Pandemic Leave Balance Data.

July 2021

The Award has been updated to reflect the Fair Work Commission’s National Minimum Wage increase of 2.5% detailed in the Annual Wage Review 2020-21 decision. This also includes updates to expense-related
allowances. Information on the Determinations can be found here and here.

These changes come into effect from the first full pay period on or after 1 July 2021. Please install these updates AFTER you have finalised your last pay run prior to the first full pay period commencing on or after 1 July 2021.

Updates have also been made to the Leave Category Family & Domestic Violence Leave, so that the balance is displayed in days instead of hours in line with the National Employment Standards.

Once the update is installed, all employee’s FDV leave balances will be displayed in days not hours. This will mean that an employee’s balance may now show as 38 days. In order to correct the balance please see How to Fix Family & Domestic Violence Leave Balance Data.

This update is to ensure that any new installs of this award conducted since 1 July are now captured with the SG increase from 9.5% to 10% for all pay categories. If you have installed this award between 1 July 2021 to 8 July 2021 for the first time, please ensure you select "NO" to preserve custom pay categories. If you were using this award prior to 1 July 2021, then you do not need to select "NO." Further information can be found in Incorrect SG rate used in pay runs article here.

May 2021

The award pay rate templates have been updated to ensure that the legislated superannuation guarantee (SG) rate will increase automatically from 9.5% to 10% effective from 1 July 2021. Please ensure you install this update prior to 1 July 2021 for this change to take effect.

What does this mean? Any pay run with a date paid on or from 1 July 2021 will automatically calculate SG at 10% of OTE. Additionally, on the 1st of July, we will update references to 9.5% on all applicable screens. For more information, including any exclusions, check out this article from the ATO.

The award name has been updated to Educational Services (Teachers) Award 2020 [MA000077].

August 2020

The award has been updated to reflect the High Court's decision on the accrual of personal/carer's leave which overturns the decision made by the Full Federal Court of Australia, with personal/carer's leave being calculated on working days not hours. Information on the decision can be found here. As such, we have removed the Personal/Carer's (10 days) Leave Allowance Templates and updated associated Employment Agreements. Please note, this update will not remove any of the above from a business where the award was already installed prior to 25 August 2020. However, any new award installs from 25 August 2020 will not display personal/carer's (10 days) leave details.

For further information on migrating from daily personal/carers leave accruals to hourly please refer here.

July

The Award, as part of Group 1 Awards, has been updated to reflect the Fair Work Commission’s National Minimum Wage increase of 1.75% detailed in the Annual Wage Review 2019-20 decision. This also includes updates to expense-related allowances. Information on the Determinations can be found here and here.

These changes come into effect from the first full pay period on or after 1 July 2020. Please install these updates AFTER you have finalised your last pay run prior to the first full pay period commencing on or after 1 July 2020.

April 2020

The award has been updated to reflect changes made as part of the Fair Work Decision around flexibility during coronavirus. The new schedule allows employees to take up to two (2) weeks unpaid pandemic leave. A new pay category (Unpaid Pandemic Leave Taken), leave category and work type (Unpaid Pandemic Leave) have been created. Also, the rule sets have been updated, where necessary, to include/exclude the work type and leave category to some pay conditions.  Further, the Leave Allowance Templates have been updated to ensure this new leave category is enabled and is now accessible for employees to take this leave when required. 

Further, under this new schedule employees can take up to twice as much annual leave at a proportionally reduced rate if their employer agrees. The employee's pay rate and leave balance will need to be manually adjusted to half in each pay run for the period of leave.

March 2020

Due to recent changes to the interpretation of personal/carer's leave accrual under the National Employment Standards, updates have been made to the setup of the Award. Further information can be found here.

A new Leave Category called Personal/Carer's (10 days) Leave has been created. Also, new Leave Allowance Templates (LATs) have been created specific to 10 days accrual per year for each state and the LATs have been attached to the current Employment Agreements for selection options for an employee's LAT in their Employee Default Pay Run screen. Any rules impacted by Personal/Carer's Leave have also been updated with the new leave category. 

Instructions on converting the accruals to the 10 day method can be found here. 

December 2019

Update to pay conditions for Education (Teachers) Permanent - Extended Service to include a paid meal break when work type Meal break on Site is selected.

30 June 2019

The Award has been updated to reflect the Fair Work Commission’s National Minimum Wage increase of 3% from its Annual Wage Review 2018-19 decision. This also includes updates to expense-related allowances. Information on the Determinations can be found here and here.

These changes come into effect from the first full pay period on or after 1 July 2019. Please install these updates AFTER you have finalised your last pay run prior to the first full pay period commencing on or after 1 July 2019.

August 2018

Allowance rate update for Kilometre Allowance - Car (above and below ATO limit). Further information can be found at ATO.

1 August 2018

The award has been updated to reflect changes made as part of the Fair Work Decision 4 year review of modern awards. The determination for the new clause in the modern award allowing employees to take unpaid leave to deal with family and domestic violence can be found here. Family and Domestic Violence leave applies from the first full pay period on or after 1 August 2018. Further information can be found at Fair Work.

Employees, including part-time and casual employees are entitled to 5 days unpaid family and domestic violence leave each year of their employment. The 5 days renews each 12 months of their employment but does not accumulate if the leave is not used.

A new leave category has been created - “Family and Domestic Violence Leave” and a new Work Type - “Family and Domestic Violence Leave taken”.  The Leave Allowance Templates and any impacted rule conditions have also been updated.

28 June 2018

The Award has been updated to reflect the Fair Work Commission’s national minimum wage increase of 3.5% from its Annual Wage Review 2017-18 decision. This also includes updates to expense-related allowances.

These changes come into effect from the first full pay period on or after 1 July 2018. Please install these updates AFTER you have finalised your last pay run prior to the first full pay period commencing on or after 1 July 2018.

Additionally, the following changes have been made as part of this update:

1. New laundry allowance pay categories and rule conditions were created to reflect the ATO threshold maximum limits for claiming of laundry (not dry cleaning) for deductible clothing under the Award. Further information can be found in the “Cleaning of Work Clothing” section of this ATO article.
2. The Payment Summary Classification settings for Allowance based pay categories have been updated as per STP requirements.

March 2018

1. Fix any auto meal break rules so that they don't apply to leave requests
2. Updated allowance pay categories configuration.  e.g. changed payment summary classifications.
3. Created Kilometre allowance pay categories - above and below ATO limits