Gardening and Landscaping Services Award 2020 (MA000101)

This article provides guidelines about when to use the different work types and tags that are included as part of the pre-built Gardening and Landscaping Services Award 2010 [MA000019] package. For further information about the Gardening and Landscaping Services Award 2010, refer to: Gardening and Landscaping Services 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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Coverage

This industry award covers employers throughout Australia in the gardening and landscaping services industry. This includes tasks as an example

• Lawn mowing
• Design,preparation and installation of pavements,landscape features,and/or associated lawns and gardens in parklands,public domain and recreation areas;
• Maintenance or horticultural establishment work following practical completion of work;
• Laying-out, construction, cultivation or keeping in order of gardens in connection with private houses;
• Landscape and environmental rehabilitation and restoration works on private or public lands;or
• Preparation and maintenance of gardens and grounds including related turf and renovation works in sports fields.

See Section 4 of the Award for more information and exclusions.

Work Types

The following is a list of work types employees can select on their timesheet, and the meaning of each item.

Annual leave taken

Choose this work type when annual leave

Call back

Choose this work type where you've gone home for the day and had to be called back to work

Compassionate leave taken

Choose this work type when compassionate leave was taken.

Hours worked

Use this work type to represent ordinary hours, unless another work type is more specific.

Hours worked under water restrictions

Use this work type where any Local or State legislation prescribes rationing or reducing the usage or water

Kilometres travelled

Enter the number of units travelled for business purposes. One unit is equivalent to 1 kilometre.

Leave without pay

Choose this work type when a permanent employee takes leave without pay

Long service leave taken

Choose this work type when long service leave was taken.

Paid community service leave taken

Choose this work type when community service leave was taken.

Personal / carer’s leave taken

Choose this work type when personal/carers leave was taken.

Public holiday not worked

Use this work type if you are a permanent employee who had a day off work on a public holiday.

Meal Allowance

Use this work type when a meal allowance is to be paid.

RDO taken

Choose this work type when an accumulated RDO day was taken.

Time in lieu leave taken

Choose this work type when an accumulated time in lieu was taken.

TIL of Overtime

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

Travel time (using own vehicle)

Use this work type to reflect time spent travelling in excess of your normal travel requirements.

Tags

The following tags are available for application to employees under the Professional Employees Award 2010.

First Aider

Choose this tag if the employee holds and appropriate first aid qualification and is required to perform first aid duties

In charge of 1-2 employees

Choose this tag if the employee is in charge of 1-2 employees

In charge of 3-6 employees

Choose this tag if the employee is in charge of 3-6 employees

In charge of 7-9 employees

Choose this tag if the employee is in charge of 7-9 employees

In charge of 10 or more employees

Choose this tag if the employee is in charge of 10 or more employees

Drives special vehicle or plant

Choose this tag when the employee is required to drive a work vehicle (which requires a licence for a truck or tractor) or operate plant in the course of their work (but not when the employee merely assists a fitter or engineer to do such)

RDO

Choose this tag if the employee should accumulate a daily RDO accrual, based on one day off every 4 weeks.

Provides own tools

Choose this tag if the employee is a tradesperson and are required to provide their own tools as part of their job

TIL of Overtime
Choose this tag if the employee elects to accrue time in lieu rather than be paid for any 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 does not accrue super. 

All rulesets have been updated to include a rule for Paid Family Domestic Violence 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

We have updated the award to reflect the Fair Work Commission’s National Minimum Wage increase ‌detailed in the Annual Wage Review 2021-22 decision. It 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 1st July 2022.

 

Please install these updates after you have finalised your last pay run before the first full pay period beginning on or after 1st July 2022. We have also disabled Unpaid Pandemic Leave as this entitlement has now expired within this award. You can find additional information on the Fairwork website.

 

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 MA000101 Introductory, Level 1,2 & 3 and MA000101 Level 4 & 5 pay condition rule sets have been updated to ensure penalties for less than a 10-hour break between shifts, are not applied to leave taken.

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.

September 2021

The work type Meal Allowance has been added to this award. This work type must now be added to timesheets where a meal allowance is to be paid. The rules relating to meal allowances in both rulesets have been edited to facilitate this change.

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 Employment Agreements for Level 4 & 5 Full Time and Part Time employees have been updated to apply the pay condition rule set MA000101 Level 4 & 5.

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.

February 2021

A correction has been made to the linked pay categories for Casuals; they have now been enabled.

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.

 

October 2020

The Employment Agreements for Apprentices have been updated to reflect correct corresponding pay rates based on year of apprenticeship. PLEASE be advised, that if you currently have apprentices employed, check they are employed under the correct year of service once you have installed this update, as this update may change the apprenticeship year for the related employees.

 

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.

The MA000101 Introductory, Level 1,2 & 3 and MA000101 Level 4 & 5 pay condition rule sets have been updated for clause 14 - no meal break. A new rule has been created for when a meal break is delay or not taken which will then pay at the rate of time and a half until a meal break is taken or the shift ends.

Rules have also been added for clause 19 - time in lieu of overtime so an employee can elect to accrue time in lieu instead of any payments of overtime. We have created a new work type and tag ‘Time in Lieu of Overtime’ to be applied to these working conditions

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. 

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.

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 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.