Fast Food Industry Award 2010 (MA000003)

This article provides guidelines about when to use the different work types and tags that are included as part of the pre-built Fast Food award package. For further information about the fast food industry award, refer to Fast Food Industry Award

Key Updates to Award

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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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Work Types

1+ OT hrs worked (24 hrs prior notice not provided to employee)

An employee that was required to work more than 1 hour of overtime with less than 24 hours’ notice and not provided with a meal should add 1 unit of this allowance to their shift. Refer section 19.1(a) of the Fast Food Industry Award.

4+ OT hrs worked (24 hrs prior notice not provided to employee)

An employee that was required to work more than 4 hour of overtime with less than 24 hours’ notice and not provided with a meal should add 1 unit of this allowance to their shift. This is in addition to adding 1 unit of "1+ OT hrs worked (24 hrs prior notice not provided to employee)". Refer section 19.1(a) of the Fast Food Industry Award.

Cold Work (above 0 degrees)

Employees principally employed on a particular shift to enter cold chambers and/or to stock and refill refrigerated storages should choose this work type. Refer section 19.8(a) of the Fast Food Industry Award.

Cold Work (below 0 degrees)

Choose this work type if the employee was required to in a cold chamber where the temperature is below 0 degrees. Refer section 19.8(b) of the Fast Food Industry Award.

Kilometre Allowance

Where an employer requests an employee to use their own motor vehicle in the performance of their duties, this work type should be used. The kilometres travelled should be entered into the ‘units’ field. Refer section 19.6 of the Fast Food Industry Award.

No meal break

Normally, meal breaks are automatically added for shifts over 5h30m. Use this work type to indicate that no meal break was taken during the shift.

Public Holiday not worked

Choose this work type where employees are not required to work on a gazetted public holiday.

Annual Leave

Choose this work type when annual leave was taken

Carer’s leave

Choose this work type when carer’s leave was taken

Compassionate Leave

Choose this work type when compassionate leave was taken

Long Service Leave

Choose this work type when long service leave was taken

Sick leave

Choose this work type when sick leave was taken

Time in Lieu taken

Choose this work type when time in lieu was taken

Time off in Lieu of Overtime

Choose this work type if the employee elects to accrue time in lieu rather than be paid for any overtime for this shift.

Unpaid Leave

Choose this work type when unpaid leave was taken

Tags

The following tags are available for application to employees under the Fast Food Industry Award.

Shiftworker

Assign this tag if the employee is employed as a shift worker who is regularly rostered to work on Sundays and public holidays. As per the national employment standards, a 7 day shiftworker is entitled to an extra 1 week of annual leave per year. Refer section 28.2 of the Fast Food Industry Award for the definition of a shift worker.

TIL of OT

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

Key Updates

September 2024

25th

We have applied the following updates:

• We have introduced a new work type "Travelling time" and added new rules"17.6 Travelling time" and "17.6 Travelling time - Overtime" to Permanent Fast food and Casual Fast food rule sets, aligning to clause 17.6 where employee will be paid travelling time on Monday to Saturday, at their minimum hourly rate of pay; or on Sunday or a public holiday, at 150% of their minimum hourly rate of pay.
• Added new rule "20.5 Minimum Engagement on Sunday OT" on Permanent Fast food rule set to apply the minimum hours at the relevant overtime rate for overtime hours worked on Sunday per clause 20.5. 
• Updated rule "20.5 Minimum Engagement on Sunday OT" on Casual Fast food rule set to ensure the correct interpretation of minimum hours worked on Sunday. 
• Updated all permanent pay rate templates to include the new created pay categories including:
  • Permanent Travelling time - Mon - Sat
  • Permanent Travelling time - Mon - Sat overtime
  • Permanent Travelling time - Sunday and Public Holiday
  • Permanent Travelling time - Sunday and Public Holiday overtime
• Updated all casual pay rate templates to include new created pay categories including:
  • Casual Travelling time - Mon - Sat
  • Casual Travelling time - Mon - Sat overtime
  • Casual Travelling time - Sunday and Public Holiday
  • Casual Travelling time - Sunday and Public Holiday overtime

July 2024

16th

We have revised the Permanent Fast Food ruleset and removed the "Extra Annual Leave - Shiftworker" rule, and its associated "shiftworker" tag, as it is no longer included in the award.

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 Casual Fast Food rule set has been updated to include a rule for Paid Family Domestic Violence Leave.

February 2024

14th

Per clause 20.5, where employees must be paid for a minimum of 4 hours for overtime worked on Sunday. However, "this entitlement does not apply if the overtime is worked immediately before, or immediately after, ordinary hours". The system does not currently have the ability to make this assessment. Hence, a new work type Minimum engagement - Sunday OT has been created. Employees will need to use this work type to receive the entitlement of a minimum 4 hours for overtime worked on Sunday that is not immediately before or after ordinary hours. Otherwise, employees would be paid only for the hours submitted on timesheet. 

January 2024

25th

We have removed the "Top Up of Standard Hours - Part Time" rule within the Permanent Fast Food rule set to make sure the part time employees would be paid correctly.

19th

We have updated the rule sets for Permanent and Casual employees, and created new pay categories linked under Ordinary Hours. This ensures that penalty rates are automatically updated when the base rate changes. The new pay categories are as follows:

• Casual - Sunday (Level 1)
• Casual - Sunday (Level 2 and 3)
• Permanent - Sunday (Level 1)
• Permanent - Sunday (Level 2 and 3)

NB: We have also introduced a new tag called "Level 1 Employees", which must be assigned to all Level 1 employees to ensure that employees classified as Level 1 will receive the correct penalty rates when they work Sundays, otherwise overpayment may occur.

We have updated the interpretation for Minimum engagement of overtime hours on Sunday. 

August 2023

24th

The LSL accrual rate for Casual - SA has been updated. 

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

6th

We have corrected the Sunday rates for all levels.

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 ensure it pays at base rate.

May 2023

31st

We have updated the rule-set pay conditions for Permanent Fast Food and Casual Fast Food to include period overtime rules for different roster patterns. The default rule-set period remains at four weeks, where overtime applies after working more than 152 ordinary hours over four consecutive weeks. 

April 2023

We have updated the Permanent Fast Food pay condition rule set to reflect a new enhancement which will calculate the higher of annual leave loading or penalties based on the entire leave period, aligning with the Fair Work calculation.

January 2023

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.

Unpaid Pandemic Leave has been disabled as this entitlement has now expired within this award. Additional information can be found on the Fairwork website.

January 2022

The Unpaid Pandemic Leave pay category has been updated and counts as service for entitlements under awards and the National Employment Standards.

If any staff have used this category previously, please adjust their Annual, Personal and Long Service Leave balances for any period of unpaid pandemic leave previously taken.

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 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.

1 February 2021

The Award, as part of Group 3 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 February 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 February 2021.

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.

 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. 

January 2020

Update to the rule set pay conditions for Permanent Fast Food and Casual Fast Food to exclude overtime calculations from leave taken work types for period overtime rules.

Update to the rule set pay conditions for Casual Fast Food to the Minimum Engagement and Minimum Engagement - Sunday OT rules to ensure that clause 26.4 minimum four hours of overtime is applied when the time worked is not immediately preceding or immediately following ordinary hours worked on a Sunday. Please note Payroll Administrators will need to manually apply minimum of 3 hours OTE for work on a Sunday and manually reduce OT hours worked on a Sunday if preceding OTE.

These changes have also now been included in Permanent Fast Food pay conditions.

December 2019

Rounding update for Casual Pay Rate Templates.

November 2019

Amendment to the rule set pay conditions for Permanent Fast Food to the rules Time in Lieu of Overtime - Thereafter (tag) and Time in Lieu of Overtime - Public Holidays (tag) to accrue time in lieu instead of annual leave.

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

Update to the rule set pay conditions for Permanent Fast Food to the Saturday and Sunday rule to exclude carer's leave and sick leave so that the base rate of the employee is paid when leave is taken on Saturday and Sundays.

May 2019

Update to the rule set pay conditions for Permanent Fast Food to the Weekday Evening and Weekday Late Work rules when Public Holiday not Worked applies. The Current rules Weekday - 10pm-12am and Weekday - 12am to 6am rule now pays the Public Holiday not Worked rate for the whole shift, no penalty rates apply.

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.

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 Sunday penalty for permanent Level 1 employees has reduced from 45% to 35%.
3. The Sunday penalty for casual Level 1 employees has reduced from 70% to 60% (inclusive of casual loading).
4. The Payment Summary Classification settings for Allowance based pay categories have been updated as per STP requirements.
5. We have created a new rule - 12.7 Apply Overtime - Over Advanced Standard Hours - Part-Time. This rule reflects the following provisions of clause 12.2:
   • 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 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:

   

   The rule will assess hours as follows:

   1. Any time worked on Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday will be deemed overtime;
   2. Any time worked before the start times on Monday, Tuesday, Friday and Sunday will be deemed overtime; and
   3. 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.

 

23 March 2018

Amended a rule for the minimum of four hours for overtime worked on a Sunday to only be applicable when overtime on its own and exclude Sunday overtime adjacent to ordinary hours.

 

17 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
4. Changed the rules "Weekday" and "uniform allowance" as this was being triggered by the Kilometre worktype.

 

1 January 2018

The award has been updated to reflect changes made as part of the Fair Work Decision 4 year review of modern awards. The changes are a replacement of Clause 26 - Overtime to include overtime paid for casuals. This now provides for casual staff to be paid overtime in excess of the following:

• 38 hours per week or an average of 38 hours per week averaged over a four week period; or
• 11 hours in one day

NB: We have applied the rule using 152 hours worked over a 4 week period to remain consistent with the rule set for permanent staff.

Implicitly, this also allows for overtime to be swapped for time in lieu and for Sunday overtime to have a 4 hour minimum engagement, consistent with the existing overtime clauses. This also means overtime can be converted to TIL by using the 'Time off in lieu of Overtime' employee tag, and this has also been reflected in the rules.

These changes are reflected in the "Casual Fast Food" rule set. We've also automatically enabled the work types relating to meal allowances for casual staff aswell. To be paid a meal allowance, the '1+ OT hrs worked (24 hrs prior notice not provided to employee)' and/or '4+ OT hrs worked (24 hrs prior notice not provided to employee)' needs to be selected on a separate line of the timesheet and a unit of 1 recorded.

These changes have also meant a set of new pay categories for casual overtime and the pay rate templates for casual employees have also been updated.

Please note that the changes come into effect on the first full pay period on or after 1 January 2018. This means that you should only install these updates once you've completed the last pay period that pays shifts worked during December 2017.