Electrical, Electronic and Communications Contracting Award 2020 (MA000025)

This article provides guidelines about when to use the different work types and tags that are included as part of the pre-built Electrical, Electronic and Communications Contracting award package. For further information about the Electrical, Electronic and Communications Contracting Award, refer to: Electrical, Electronic and Communications Contracting Award

Key Updates to Award
Last Updated: July 2022

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Installing and Configuring the Pre-Built Award Package

For details on how to install and configure this Pre-built Award Template, please review the detailed help article here.

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Special notes on this award

All purpose allowances - any all purpose allowances have been designed in this award to show separately on the pay slips. While there is an exhaustive list, we have chosen this method for improved transparency and audit quality of the final pay slips. All purpose allowances can be triggered on or off by employee tag, with the exception of the Electrical Line Distribution and Tree Clearing Allowance which is triggered by work type.
Special allowances - These have been ranked from lowest (1) to highest (12) in order to assist the employee in selecting the most appropriate allowance
All other allowances will need to be recorded by adding a timesheet line and inputting a number of units corresponding to these work types.

Work types

Additional meals not included in fares/accommodation (1 unit = 1 meal)

Use this work type when you have worked away from home (overnight). 1 unit represents a meal which is not otherwise included in the cost of travel and accommodation.

Annual Leave taken

Use this work type where you have taken annual leave. Enter the hours you would have worked had you not been on leave.

Available for duty

Use this work type if you are not at work but have been scheduled as available to work.

Call back

This work type should be selected when an employee has been recalled to work for any reason before or after completing their normal roster or on a day which they did not work.

Community Service Leave taken

Choose this work type when community service leave was taken.

Compassionate Leave taken

Choose this work type when compassionate leave is taken.

Electrical distribution line maintenance and tree clearing

This work type is chosen when engaged in line maintenance or tree clearing and will apply an all purpose allowance for each hour worked.

Family and Domestic Violence Leave taken

Choose this work type when family and domestic violence leave is taken.

Hours worked

Choose this work type for normal shifts where nothing else listed here is applicable.

Kilometres travelled (1 unit = 1km)

Choose this work type and fill out the units field as kilometres travelled.

Leave without pay

Use this work type if you have taken time off without an available leave balance

Living away from home (1 unit = 1 week)

This work type will pay a weekly allowance to the employee where they have worked away from home for the week.

Long Service Leave taken

Use this work type where long-service leave was taken

Personal/Carer's Leave taken

Use this work type where personal / carers leave was taken

Public holiday (day off)

Use this holiday where you are a permanent employee and did not work on a public holiday. Enter the hours you would have normally worked had the day not been a public holiday.

RDO Leave taken

Use this work type where the employee has had a rostered day off.

Single call-out

Use this work type if you are available for duty and have only been called out once. Do not use this if you are called out multiple times. In this case use hours worked.

Special allowance 1 - Multistorey allowance - 0-15 floors

Use this work type if you were working on a building site where the building was up to 15 floors.

Special allowance 2 - Multistorey allowance - 16-30 floors

Use this work type if you were working on a building site where the building was 16-30 floors.

Special allowance 2 - Towers allowance -15-30 metres

Use this work type if you are an employee working on a chimney stack,spire,tower radio or television mast or tower,air shaft (other than above ground in a multistorey building), lift shaft,service shaft,cooling tower or silo,where the construction is between 15-30 metres in height.

Special allowance 3 - Multistorey allowance - 31-45 floors

Use this work type if you were working on a building site where the building was 31-45 floors.

Special allowance 4 - Service cores more than 15 metres above the main structure of a multistorey building of 0-15 floors

Use this work type if you are an employee working on a service core at more than 15 metres above the highest point of the main structure and the main structure is up to 15 floors high.

Special allowance 5 - Multistorey allowance - 46-60 floors

Use this work type if you were working on a building site where the building was 46-60 floors.

Special allowance 6 - Service cores more than 15 metres above the main structure of a multistorey building of 16-30 floors

Use this work type if you are an employee working on a service core at more than 15 metres above the highest point of the main structure and the main structure is 16-30 floors high.

Special allowance 6 - Towers allowance - 30-45 metres

Special allowance 7 - Multistorey allowance - more than 60 floors

Use this work type if you were working on a building site where the building was more than 60 floors.

Special allowance 8 - Service cores more than 15 metres above the main structure of a multistorey building of 31-45 floors

Use this work type if you are an employee working on a service core at more than 15 metres above the highest point of the main structure and the main structure is 31-45 floors high.

Special allowance 9 - Service cores more than 15 metres above the main structure of a multistorey building of - 46-60 floors

Use this work type if you are an employee working on a service core at more than 15 metres above the highest point of the main structure and the main structure is 46-60 floors high.

Special allowance 10 - Towers allowance - 45-60 metres

Special allowance 11 - Service cores more than 15 metres above the main structure of a multistorey building of - more than 60 floors

Use this work type if you are an employee working on a service core at more than 15 metres above the highest point of the main structure and the main structure is 60 floors or more high.

Special allowance 12 - Towers allowance - higher than 60 metres

Start/finish on job site allowance - over 50 km from depot - own transport (1 unit = 1 day)

Use this allowance if you started or finished onsite over 50km from the registered depot and your employer did not offer transport.

Start/finish on job site allowance - over 50 km from depot - transport provided (1 unit = 1 day)

Use this allowance if you started or finished onsite over 50km from the registered depot and your employer offered transport.

Start/finish on job site allowance - up to 50 km from depot - own transport (1 unit = 1 day)

Use this allowance if you started or finished onsite up to 50km from the registered depot and your employer did not offer transport.

Start/finish on job site allowance - up to 50 km from depot - transport provided (1 unit = 1 day)

Use this allowance if you started or finished onsite over 50km from the registered depot and your employer offered transport.

TIL Leave taken

Use this work type if you have taken time off in lieu

Unrelieved shiftworker

Use this work type if you are a shiftwork employee and you have needed to work additional time on your rostered day off befpre being relieved by a replacement employee.

Work on a roster day off

Use this work type if you are called to work on your usual roster day off.

Working through a break

Use this work type if you've worked through a break from the start of when you should have had a break to when you took a break.

Tags

RDO

Assign this tag if the employee will accumulate 24 minutes of each shift to RDO to accumulate 7.6 hours after 19 shifts

Permanent Night Shift

Assign this tag if the employee has been on night shift permanently for more than 4 weeks work.

Electrician's licence

Assign this tag if the employee is required to hold and use an electrical licence to perform their duties.

Required to order materials

Assign this tag if the employee is in the building and construction industry and left in charge of a job which is of a duration of one week or more,and is required to order materials for a job on which two employees (including the person receiving the extra payment) are engaged.

Act as nominee for electrical contractor

Assign this tag to an electrical mechanic who holds the relevant State electrical licence and acts as a nominee for an electrical contractor

Agreed 12 hour shift duration

Assign this tag if it is agreed that one shift per week can have a 12 hour duration.

Tool allowance

Assign this tag if the employee is required to provide their own tools

First aid allowance

Assign this tag if the employee has an appropriate first aid qualification and will be the designated ongoing first aid officer during every shift they are rostered to work.

In charge of 3-10 employees

Assign this take if you are assigned leading hand in charge of 3-10 employees. If you are in charge of someone with a higher classification than yours, use the higher classification setting instead.

In charge of 11-20 employees

Assign this take if you are assigned leading hand in charge of 11-20 employees. If you are in charge of someone with a higher classification than yours, use the higher classification setting instead.

In charge of more than 20 employees

Assign this take if you are assigned leading hand in charge of more than 20 employees. If you are in charge of someone with a higher classification than yours, use the higher classification setting instead.

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.

The Casual Dayworker and Casual Shiftwork rule set has been updated to include a rule for Paid Family Domestic Violence Leave. The "Convert to Casual Ordinary" rule has been deleted as it's no longer applicable. The "Industry Allowance" within the Casual Daywork rule set for weekends has been updated to be an all purpose allowance.

March 2024

25th

New Pay Rate templates for Casual Employees

We have created a new set of Pay Rate Templates for Casual employees.

For casual employees that have been set up to the correct Employment Agreement, applying the award update will automatically reassign these employees to the new Pay Rate Templates.

If any casual employees have been manually assigned to a Pay Rate Template, their Pay Rate Template will need to be manually reassigned to the new Casual Pay Rate Templates.

NB: You can bulk update employee data via an Employee Import.

Update to Community Service Leave Taken pay category

We have also updated the linked pay category Community Service Leave to accrue leave and payment classification to "Leave - ancillary and defence leave"

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

24th

We have updated the Apprentice and Adult apprentice Pay Rate Templates to separate the base rate and the all-purpose allowance in line with the single touch payroll phase two employer reporting guidelines to separately report all-purpose allowances against the relevant allowance classification.

1st

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 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. We have also updated the Community Service Leave category to make sure it pays at base rate.

January 2023

31st

We have updated the award to reflect changes made as part of the Fair Work Decision regarding Paid Family and Domestic Violence Leave. Further information on what changes have been applied to the platform and what you should be aware of can be found within this article.

We have created the following new categories:

New Leave Category: Paid Family and Domestic Violence Leave.
New Pay Category: Paid Family and Domestic Violence Leave.
New Work Type: Paid Family and Domestic Violence Leave taken.

We have updated the Leave Allowance Templates to disable the existing unpaid Family and Domestic Violence and we have enabled the new Paid Family and Domestic Violence Leave. We also updated any impacted rule conditions.

As part of Fair Work's ruling, an employee must be paid their full pay rate; this includes their base rate plus any incentive-based payments and bonuses, loadings, monetary allowances, overtime or penalty rates, and any other separately identifiable amount.

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.

December 2021

The award has been updated to incorporate recent changes to casual loading for some pay categories. The loadings for the pay categories Casual - Afternoon or night shift not continuing for 5 or more shifts in a row - after 2 hours, Casual - Afternoon or night shift not continuing for 5 or more shifts in a row - first 2 hours, Casual - Public holiday, Casual - Public Holiday Overtime and Casual - Saturday - shiftworkers have been increased in line with these changes. More information can be found here.

These changes come into effect from the first full pay period on or after 23 November 2021. Please install these updates AFTER you have finalised your last pay run prior to the first full pay period commencing on or after 23 November 2021.

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.

October 2021

Pay rate updates have been made to Permanent and Casual levels 1-10 in line with the minimum rates displayed in table 16.2. The Industry Allowance has also been calculated to an hourly rate in line with clause 18.3(a) - all-purpose allowance. These rates are effective from 1 July 2021.

August 2021

The pay condition rule sets for Permanent daywork and Casual daywork have been updated to ensure that overtime is paid on a Sunday for daywork. New pay categories were created for Permanent - Overtime - Sunday and Casual - Overtime - Sunday and the corresponding rules were updated.

July 1 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 Casual - Public Holiday pay category penalty has been updated in line with the Fair Work pay guides and clause 20.4(b).

December 2020

The award has been updated to reflect changes made as part of a Fair Work Decision. The overtime, Sunday and public holiday rates for casuals have been up updated in line with the Determination. These new rate are effective from the first full pay period on or after 20 November 2020.

The award has been varied as part of the Fair Work Commission's four yearly review of modern awards. The determination comes into operation on 13 November 2020. In accordance with s.165(3) of the Fair Work Act 2009, this determination does not take effect in relation to a particular employee until the start of the employee's first full pay period that starts on or after 13 November 2020.

The following changes have been updated in the award pay condition rule sets for Permanent shiftworker, casual shiftworker, permanent daywork and casual daywork.

New period overtime rules have been created in line with clauses 13.4 & 13.5
Penalty rules in clause 13.13 for shiftworkers for afternoon and night shifts have been updated to 6:01pm and 12:01am respectively to ensure that any shift ending up to 6pm is not considered part of the penalty rates
A meal allowance work type has been created as part of clause 18.5(a), this will be selected when the employee is to be paid for a meal when not supplied
Travel time allowance has been updated to include the allowance being paid when employee is taking an RDO.
The all-purpose allowances for industry, tool and electrical licence rules have been updated to include minimum payments for minimum daily engagements
Time in lieu of overtime rules, including work type and tag have been created in line with clause 20.7

November 2020

The Award pay rates have been updated to reflect published pay guide pay rates dated 4 November 2010. These rates are effective from the first full pay period on or after 1 November 2020.

The Award, as part of Group 2 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 November 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 November 2020.

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.

30 June 2020

The award pay rate templates have been updated to reflect the Australian Taxation Office's decision to increase the cents per kilometre rate for work-related car expense deductions to 72 cents per kilometre. The new rate applies from the first paid date in the 2020-21 financial year.

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.

February 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 Permanent shiftworker, casual shiftworker, permanent daywork and casual daywork to ensure that when worktype call back is selected that all time is paid as overtime.

November 2019

Rounding update for the apprentice pay rate templates the following have been updated,

Apprentice (started after 1 January 2014) - finished year 12 - first year
Apprentice (started after 1 January 2014) - finished year 12 - second year
Apprentice (started before 1 January 2014) - first year
Adult Apprentice (started before 1 January 2014) - first year
Adult Apprentice (started after 1 January 2014) - first year.

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.

May 2019

A new pay category for Tool Allowance has been created based on the ATO tax ruling of allowances for expected deductible expenses, to ensure that the allowance is withholding PAYG. Rule 17.2(b) All purpose allowance - Tool allowance of the pay conditions has been updated.

February 2019

The following allowances have been updated to reflect current 2018 year rates:

Start/finish on job site allowance - over 50 km from depot - own transport
Start/finish on job site allowance - over 50 km from depot - transport provided
Start/finish on job site allowance - up to 50 km from depot - own transport
Start/finish on job site allowance - up to 50 km from depot - transport provided
Travel time allowance
Living away from home - board and lodging allowance

These rate are effective from the first full pay period commencing on or after 1 July 2018.

December 2018

The setup of the Payroll Tax Exempt field in Payroll Settings>Pay Categories was replicating the PAYG Exempt field rather than creating a unique identity; when installed into the business settings. An audit has been carried out across the system and the issue has now been resolved with this update.

1 October 2018

The Award has been updated to reflect changes made as part of the Fair Work Decision 4 year review of modern awards. The change is a newly created clause 10.3(f) - casual minimum engagement. This now provides for casual employees to be paid for at least 2 consecutive hours of work on each occasion they are required to attend work.

This change is reflected in the "Casual shiftwork" and "Casual daywork" rule sets.

Please note that the change comes into effect on the first full pay period on or after 1 October 2018. This means that you should only install this update once you've completed the last pay period for hours worked during September 2018. The Fair Work Determination can be found here.

31 July 2018

A new leave category "Family and Domestic Violence Leave" has now been added to this Award. Family and Domestic Violence Leave applies to all employees and comes into effect from the first pay period commencing on or after 1 August 2018. The full determination can be found here.

Additionally, we have simplified the rules pertaining to all purpose allowances. We have been able to do this because of the special purpose built condition that was recently released relating specifically to all purpose allowances. This has also resulted in a 'clean up' of pay categories no longer required. All purpose allowances will still be calculated using the 'base' pay category and applicable multiplier however we no longer need the multiple allowance pay categories that were originally created. Below is a list of all pay categories that have been deleted from the Award.

N.B: This update will not automatically remove the below pay categories for any businesses that had already installed the award prior to 1 August. Moving forward however, the pay categories will not be used as part of the award interpretation.

The following pay categories are no longer required and have therefore been removed from the award package:

Electrical distribution line maintenance and tree clearing allowance - OT - x1.5
Electrical distribution line maintenance and tree clearing allowance - OT - x1.75
Electrical distribution line maintenance and tree clearing allowance - OT - x2.0
Electrical distribution line maintenance and tree clearing allowance - OT - x2.25
Electrical distribution line maintenance and tree clearing allowance x1.15
Electrical distribution line maintenance and tree clearing allowance x1.3
Electrical distribution line maintenance and tree clearing allowance x1.4
Electrical distribution line maintenance and tree clearing allowance x1.5
Electrical distribution line maintenance and tree clearing allowance x1.55
Electrical distribution line maintenance and tree clearing allowance x1.75
Electrical distribution line maintenance and tree clearing allowance x2.0
Electrical distribution line maintenance and tree clearing allowance x2.25
Electrical distribution line maintenance and tree clearing allowance x2.5
Electrical distribution line maintenance and tree clearing allowance x2.75

Electrician's licence allowance - OT - x1.5
Electrician's licence allowance - OT - x1.75
Electrician's licence allowance - OT - x2.0
Electrician's licence allowance - OT - x2.25
Electrician's licence allowance x1.15
Electrician's licence allowance x1.3
Electrician's licence allowance x1.4
Electrician's licence allowance x1.5
Electrician's licence allowance x1.55
Electrician's licence allowance x1.75
Electrician's licence allowance x2.0
Electrician's licence allowance x2.25
Electrician's licence allowance x2.5
Electrician's licence allowance x2.75

Industry allowance - OT - x1.5
Industry allowance - OT - x1.75
Industry allowance - OT - x2.0
Industry allowance - OT - x2.25
Industry allowance x1.15
Industry allowance x1.3
Industry allowance x1.4
Industry allowance x1.5
Industry allowance x1.55
Industry allowance x1.75
Industry allowance x2.0
Industry allowance x2.25
Industry allowance x2.5
Industry allowance x2.75

Leading hand allowance (11-20 Employees) - OT - x1.5
Leading hand allowance (11-20 Employees) - OT - x1.75
Leading hand allowance (11-20 Employees) - OT - x2.0
Leading hand allowance (11-20 Employees) - OT - x2.25
Leading hand allowance (11-20 Employees) x1.15
Leading hand allowance (11-20 Employees) x1.3
Leading hand allowance (11-20 Employees) x1.4
Leading hand allowance (11-20 Employees) x1.5
Leading hand allowance (11-20 Employees) x1.55
Leading hand allowance (11-20 Employees) x1.75
Leading hand allowance (11-20 Employees) x2.0
Leading hand allowance (11-20 Employees) x2.25
Leading hand allowance (11-20 Employees) x2.5
Leading hand allowance (11-20 Employees) x2.75

Leading hand allowance (3-10 Employees) - OT - x1.5
Leading hand allowance (3-10 Employees) - OT - x1.75
Leading hand allowance (3-10 Employees) - OT - x2.0
Leading hand allowance (3-10 Employees) - OT - x2.25
Leading hand allowance (3-10 Employees) x1.15
Leading hand allowance (3-10 Employees) x1.3
Leading hand allowance (3-10 Employees) x1.4
Leading hand allowance (3-10 Employees) x1.5
Leading hand allowance (3-10 Employees) x1.55
Leading hand allowance (3-10 Employees) x1.75
Leading hand allowance (3-10 Employees) x2.0
Leading hand allowance (3-10 Employees) x2.25
Leading hand allowance (3-10 Employees) x2.5
Leading hand allowance (3-10 Employees) x2.75

Leading hand allowance (more than 20 Employees) - OT - x1.5
Leading hand allowance (more than 20 Employees) - OT - x1.75
Leading hand allowance (more than 20 Employees) - OT - x2.0
Leading hand allowance (more than 20 Employees) - OT - x2.25
Leading hand allowance (More than 20 employees) x1.15
Leading hand allowance (More than 20 employees) x1.3
Leading hand allowance (More than 20 employees) x1.4
Leading hand allowance (More than 20 employees) x1.5
Leading hand allowance (More than 20 employees) x1.55
Leading hand allowance (More than 20 employees) x1.75
Leading hand allowance (More than 20 employees) x2.0
Leading hand allowance (More than 20 employees) x2.25
Leading hand allowance (More than 20 employees) x2.5
Leading hand allowance (More than 20 employees) x2.75

Nominee allowance - OT - x1.5
Nominee allowance - OT - x1.75
Nominee allowance - OT - x2.0
Nominee allowance - OT - x2.25
Nominee allowance x1.15
Nominee allowance x1.3
Nominee allowance x1.4
Nominee allowance x1.5
Nominee allowance x1.55
Nominee allowance x1.75
Nominee allowance x2.0
Nominee allowance x2.25
Nominee allowance x2.5
Nominee allowance x2.75

Ordering materials allowance - OT - x1.5
Ordering materials allowance - OT - x1.75
Ordering materials allowance - OT - x2.0
Ordering materials allowance - OT - x2.25
Ordering materials allowance x1.15
Ordering materials allowance x1.3
Ordering materials allowance x1.4
Ordering materials allowance x1.5
Ordering materials allowance x1.55
Ordering materials allowance x1.75
Ordering materials allowance x2.0
Ordering materials allowance x2.25
Ordering materials allowance x2.5
Ordering materials allowance x2.75

Tool allowance x1.15
Tool allowance x1.3
Tool allowance x1.4
Tool allowance x1.5
Tool allowance x1.55
Tool allowance x1.75
Tool allowance x2.0
Tool allowance x2.25
Tool allowance x2.5
Tool allowance x2.75

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:

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.

We have created a new rule - 10.2(f) Apply Overtime - Over Advanced Standard Hours - Part-Time.This rule reflects the following provisions of clause 10.2(f):

the hours worked each day;
which days of the week the employee will work;
the actual starting and finishing times of each day.

Previously we could only assess the number of hours worked per week for overtime purposes using the existing 29.2(b) Apply Overtime - Over Standard Hours - Part Time rule. Now, however, we can assess the Advanced Standard Work Hours as set up within the employee's Pay Run Defaults screen.

For example, if an employee's Advanced Standard Work Hours were as follows:

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The rule will assess hours as follows:

Any time worked on Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday will be deemed overtime;
Any time worked before the start times on Monday, Tuesday, Friday and Sunday will be deemed overtime; and
Any time worked after the end times on Monday, Tuesday, Friday and Sunday will be deemed overtime.

N.B:

(a) This rule only works where Advanced Standard Work Hours have been set up using start and finish times, NOT hours only;

(b) If no Advanced Standard Work Hours have been set up for a part time employee, then all hours will be deemed overtime.

2 February 2018

The following allowance rates have been updated:

Start/finish on job site allowance - up to 50 km from depot - own transport
Start/finish on job site allowance - up to 50 km from depot - transport provided
Electrician's licence allowance (for 2nd, 3rd & 4th yr Adult Apprentices starting after 1 Jan 2014)
Industry allowance (for 2nd, 3rd & 4th yr Adult Apprentices starting after 1 Jan 2014)
Towers allowance - higher than 60 metres
Travel time allowance (for 2nd, 3rd & 4th yr Adult Apprentices starting after 1 Jan 2014)

Additionally, the hourly rate of pay for a Grade 10 Electrical Worker has been updated (from $26.91 to $26.92).

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Installing and Configuring the Pre-Built Award Package

Key Updates

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