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This guide is your go-to for understanding how Deputy has interpreted the [MA000119] Restaurant Industry Award.
We've built these rules based on the weekly interpretation from Fair Work.
http://awardviewer.fwo.gov.au/award/show/MA000119
Refer to your award pay guide for pay rates and allowances: https://www.fairwork.gov.au/pay-and-wages/minimum-wages/pay-guides
Deputy's pay engine is super helpful, but it's not legal or payroll advice. You're still responsible for paying your staff correctly. Please review our Product Specific Terms for more information about your compliance responsibilities.
Important notes before using this award
- These are Deputy's default pay rules. To customise them, use the Pay Rate Builder.
- Averaging of Ordinary hours: Deputy cannot handle averaging ordinary hours over multiple periods.
- Leave Loading: Manually add annual leave loading to timesheets, as Deputy won't include this automatically.
- Higher Duties: This is done through Pay by Area.
- Part Time employees default to 38 hours a week. To customise this, use Regular Working Hours.
- Delayed Meal Break: The RIA has 2 types of delayed meal break:
1. Break not allowed at rostered time - Deputy does not currently automate the delayed meal break penalty rate where a meal break is rostered but delayed. Please ensure that if this occurs, you manually add any required penalty pay to your employees wages for that shift.
2. Break not allowed and no rostered time - Deputy will apply the delayed meal break penalty from the 6th hour of the shift. This pay rate will not apply during overtime. If an employee is in overtime and entitled to the delayed meal break penalty you will need to manually adjust their pay to include both. - Penalty Rates in Full Hour Increments Only: Deputy does not pro-rate penalty rates for partial hours worked. Penalty rates are applied to timesheets in full hour increments only.
- Rest After 3 Consecutive Shifts of >10 Ordinary Hours: Deputy does not allow Customers to track shifts that are more than 10 ordinary hours on more than 3 consecutive days and to pay overtime according to the award document clauses 15.1(c) and 23.1(a). We are working on improving this functionality and advise to use the manual adjustment as a workaround in the meantime.
There are 5 sectors for this award
Full Time
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| Pay Title | Value | Trigger Condition |
| M-F Ordinary | base hourly rate specified by customer |
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| M-F 10pm-12am | $2.81 per hour |
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| M-F 12am-6am | $4.22 per hour |
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| Sat | 1.25x |
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| Sun | 1.5x |
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| M-F Daily OT First 2 Hours | 1.5x |
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| M-F Daily OT After 2 Hours | 2x |
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| Sat Daily OT First 2 Hours | 1.75x |
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| Sat Daily OT After 2 Hours | 2x |
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| Sun Daily OT | 2x |
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| M-F Weekly OT - First 2 Hours | 1.5x |
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| Sat Weekly OT - First 2 Hours | 1.75x |
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| M-Sat Weekly OT - After 2 Hours | 2x |
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| Sun Weekly OT | 2x |
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| PH | 2.25x |
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| PH Daily OT | 2.25x |
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| PH Weekly OT | 2.25x |
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| M-F Delayed Meal Break | 1.5x |
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| Sat Delayed Meal Break | 1.75x |
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| Sun Delayed Meal Break | 2x |
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| PH Delayed Meal Break | 2.75x |
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| Less Than 8 Hour Break After OT - First 2 Hours | 1.5x |
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| Less Than 8 Hour Break After OT - After 2 Hours | 2x |
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| RDO OT | 2x |
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| Xmas Sat | 1.25x |
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| Xmas Sun | 1.25x |
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| PH Minimum Shift Engagement | 2.25x |
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| Working on RDO Minimum Shift Engagement | 2x |
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| Split Shift Allowance | $5.34 Per Unit |
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Part Time
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| Pay Title | Value | Trigger Condition |
| M-F Ordinary | base hourly rate specified by customer |
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| M-F 12am-6am | $4.22 per hour |
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| M-F 10pm-12am | $2.81 per hour |
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| Sat | 1.25x |
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| Sun | 1.5x |
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| M-F Daily OT First 2 Hours | 1.5x |
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| M-F Daily OT After 2 Hours | 2x |
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| Sat Daily OT First 2 Hours | 1.75x |
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| Sat Daily OT After 2 Hours | 2x |
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| Sun Daily OT | 2x |
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| M-F Weekly OT - First 2 Hours | 1.5x |
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| Sat Weekly OT - First 2 Hours | 1.75x |
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| M-Sat Weekly OT - After 2 Hours | 2x |
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| Sun Weekly OT | 2x |
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| PH | 2.25x |
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| PH Daily OT | 2.25x |
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| PH Weekly OT | 2.25x |
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| M-F Delayed Meal Break | 1.5x |
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| Sat Delayed Meal Break | 1.75x |
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| Sun Delayed Meal Break | 2x |
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| PH Delayed Meal Break | 2.75x |
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| Less Than 8 Hour Break After OT - First 2 Hours | 1.5x |
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| Less Than 8 Hour Break After OT - After 2 Hours | 2x |
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| RDO OT | 2x |
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| Xmas Sat | 1.25x |
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| Xmas Sun | 1.25x |
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| M-F Minimum Shift Engagement | 1x |
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| Sat Minimum Shift Engagement | 1.25x |
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| Sun Minimum Shift Engagement | 1.5x |
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| PH Minimum Shift Engagement | 2.25x |
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| Working on RDO Minimum Shift Engagement | 2x |
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| Split Shift Allowance | $5.34 Per Unit |
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Casual - Intro, Level 1, Level 2
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| Pay Title | Value | Trigger Condition |
| M-F Ordinary | base hourly rate specified by customer |
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| M-F 10pm-12am | $2.81 per hour |
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| M-F 12am-6am | $4.22 per hour |
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| Sat | 1.2x |
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| Sun | 1.2x |
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| M-F Daily OT - First 2 Hours | 1.2x |
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| M-F Daily OT - After 2 Hours | 1.6x |
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| Sat Daily OT - First 2 Hours | 1.4x |
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| Sat Daily OT - After 2 Hours | 1.6x |
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| Sun Daily OT | 1.6x |
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| M-F Weekly OT - First 2 Hours | 1.2x |
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| M-F Weekly OT - After 2 Hours |
1.6x
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Sat Weekly OT - First 2 Hours |
1.4x
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| Sat Weekly OT - After 2 Hours | 1.6x |
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| Sun Weekly OT | 1.6x |
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| PH | 2x |
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| PH Daily OT | 2x |
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| PH Weekly OT | 2x |
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| M-F Delayed Meal Break | 1.4x |
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| Sat Delayed Meal Break | 1.6x |
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| Sun Delayed Meal Break | 1.6x |
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| PH Delayed Meal Break | 2.4x |
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| Less Than 8 Hour Break After OT - First 2 Hours | 1.2x |
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| Less Than 8 Hour Break After OT - After 2 Hours | 1.6x |
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| M-F Minimum Shift Engagement | 1x |
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| Sat Minimum Shift Engagement | 1.2x |
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| Sun Minimum Shift Engagement | 1.2x |
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| PH Minimum Shift Engagement | 2x |
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Casual - Level 3
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| Pay Title | Value | Trigger Condition |
| M-F Ordinary | base hourly rate specified by customer |
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| M-F 10pm-12am | $2.81 per hour |
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| M-F 12am-6am | $4.22 per hour |
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| Sat | 1.2x |
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| Sun | 1.4x |
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| M-F Daily OT - First 2 Hours | 1.2x |
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| M-F Daily OT - After 2 Hours | 1.6x |
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| Sat Daily OT - First 2 Hours | 1.4x |
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| Sat Daily OT - After 2 Hours | 1.6x |
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| Sun Daily OT | 1.6x |
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| M-F Weekly OT - First 2 Hours | 1.2x |
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| M-F Weekly OT - After 2 Hours | 1.6x |
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| Sat Weekly OT - First 2 Hours | 1.4x |
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| Sat Weekly OT - After 2 Hours | 1.6x |
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| Sun Weekly OT | 1.6x |
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| PH | 2x |
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| PH Daily OT | 2x |
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| PH Weekly OT | 2x |
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| M-F Delayed Meal Break | 1.4x |
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| Sat Delayed Meal Break | 1.6x |
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| Sun Delayed Meal Break | 1.8x |
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| PH Delayed Meal Break | 2.4x |
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| Less Than 8 Hour Break After OT - First 2 Hours | 1.2x |
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| Less Than 8 Hour Break After OT - After 2 Hours | 1.6x |
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| M-F Minimum Shift Engagement | 1x |
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| Sat Minimum Shift Engagement | 1.2x |
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| Sun Minimum Shift Engagement | 1.4x |
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| PH Minimum Shift Engagement | 2x |
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Apprentice
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| Pay Title | Value | Trigger Condition |
| M-F Ordinary | base hourly rate specified by customer |
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| M-F 10pm-12am | $2.81 per hour |
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| M-F 12am-6am | $4.22 per hour |
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| Sat | 1.25x |
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| Sun | 1.5x |
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| M-F Daily OT - First 2 Hours | 1.5x |
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| M-F Daily OT - After 2 Hours | 2x |
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| Sat Daily OT - First 2 Hours | 1.75x |
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| Sat Daily OT - After 2 Hours | 2x |
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| Sun Daily OT | 2x |
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| M-F Weekly OT - First 2 Hours | 1.5x |
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| M-F Weekly OT - After 2 Hours | 2x |
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| Sat Weekly OT - First 2 Hours | 1.75x |
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| Sat Weekly OT - After 2 Hours | 2x |
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| Sun Weekly OT | 2x |
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| PH | 2.25x |
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| PH Daily OT | 2.25x |
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| PH Weekly OT | 2.25x |
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| M-F Delayed Meal Break | 1.5x |
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| Sat Delayed Meal Break | 1.75x |
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| Sun Delayed Meal Break | 2x |
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| PH Delayed Meal Break | 2.75x |
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| Less Than 8 Hour Break After OT - First 2 Hours | 1.5x |
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| Less Than 8 Hour Break After OT - After 2 Hours | 2x |
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| RDO OT | 2x |
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| Xmas Sat | 1.25x |
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| Xmas Sun | 1.25x |
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| PH Minimum Shift Engagement | 2.25x |
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| Working on RDO Minimum Shift Engagement | 2x |
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| Split Shift Allowance | $5.34 per unit |
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Allowances - Not automated
- Higher Duties
- Meal Allowance
- Split Shift Allowance
- Tool Allowance - Cooks
- Travelling Time Allowance
Set Your Allowances
If you need to add the allowances into the export please follow the below instructions;
Approve the timesheet, then 'unapprove' the pay item as per the picture below.
Add in the shift loading and number of units/hours.
Approve the pay item.
Note: You can automate allowances in Pay Rate Builder.