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This guide is your go-to for understanding how Deputy has interpreted the [MA000025] Electrical, Electronic and Communications Contracting Award.
We've built these rules based on the weekly interpretation from Fair Work.
https://awards.fairwork.gov.au/MA000025.html
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 things to note before using this Award
- If you do not see a pay rule listed in the tables below, then it is not included in the Deputy Premium platform at this time. If you are interested in adding customized pay rules to your account, please consider our Enterprise plan.
- Delayed Meal break - 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.
- Ordinary Hours - No Averaging: Some modern awards allow ordinary hours to be arranged in multiple ways, including averaging hours over several days, weeks or roster cycles. Deputy Premium does not currently accommodate these options.
- Public Holidays: Customers who wish to use a Public Holiday pay rule must designate a day as a Public Holiday on the Deputy schedule.
- Casual Loading: If your employee is entitled to a casual loading, you must include that in the employee's base hourly rate in order for the pay rules to function properly. Deputy does not automatically include a casual loading.
- Leave Loading: If your employee is entitled to annual leave loading, you must manually add this to your employees timesheet as Deputy does not automatically include this loading.
There are 9 sectors for this award
Full Time Dayworker
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| Pay Condition Name | Value | Trigger Condition |
| M-F Ordinary | Base hourly rate specified by customer |
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| Sat OT - First 2 Hours | 1.5x |
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| Sat OT - After 2 Hours | 2x |
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| Sun | 2x |
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| M-F Before 6am - First 2 Hours | 1.5x |
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| M-F Before 6am - After 2 Hours | 2x |
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| M-F After 6pm - First 2 Hours | 1.5x |
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| M-F After 6pm - After 2 Hours | 2x |
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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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| 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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| Delayed Meal Break | 1.5x |
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| Less Than 10 Hour Break After Overtime - First 2 Hours | 1.5x |
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| Less Than 10 Hour Break After Overtime - After 2 Hours | 2x |
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| Less than 10 hour break | 2x |
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| RDO | 1.5x |
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| PH | 2.5x |
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| PH Daily OT | 2.5x |
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| PH Weekly OT | 2.5x |
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| Sat Minimum Shift Engagement | 1.5x |
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| Sun Minimum Shift Engagement | 2x |
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| PH Minimum Shift Engagement | 2.5x |
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| RDO Minimum Shift Engagement | 2x |
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Part Time Dayworker
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| Pay Condition Name | Value | Trigger Condition |
| M-F Ordinary | Base hourly rate specified by customer |
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| Sat OT - First 2 Hours | 1.5x |
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| Sat OT - After 2 Hours | 2x |
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| Sun | 2x |
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| M-F Before 6am - First 2 Hours | 1.5x |
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| M-F Before 6am - After 2 Hours | 2x |
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| M-F After 6pm - First 2 Hours | 1.5x |
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| M-F After 6pm - After 2 Hours | 2x |
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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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| 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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| Delayed Meal Break | 1.5x |
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| Less Than 10 Hour Break After Overtime - First 2 Hours | 1.5x |
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| Less Than 10 Hour Break After Overtime - After 2 Hours | 2x |
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| Less than 10 hour break | 2x |
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| RDO | 1.5x |
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| PH | 2.5x |
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| PH Daily OT | 2.5x |
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| PH Weekly OT | 2.5x |
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| Sat Minimum Shift Engagement | 1.5x |
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| Sun Minimum Shift Engagement | 2x |
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| PH Minimum Shift Engagement | 2.5x |
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| RDO Minimum Shift Engagement | 2x |
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Casual Dayworker
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| Pay Condition Name | Value | Trigger Condition |
| M-F Ordinary | Base hourly rate specified by customer |
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| Sat OT - First 2 Hours | 1.5x |
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| Sat OT - After 2 Hours | 2x |
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| Sun | 2x |
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| M-F Before 6am - First 2 Hours | 1.5x |
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| M-F Before 6am - After 2 Hours | 2x |
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| M-F After 6pm - First 2 Hours | 1.5x |
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| M-F After 6pm - After 2 Hours | 2x |
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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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| 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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| Delayed Meal Break | 1.4x |
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| Less than 10 hour break | 2x |
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| PH | 2.5x |
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| PH Daily OT | 2.5x |
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| PH Weekly OT | 2.5x |
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| M-F Minimum Shift Engagement | 1x |
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| Sat Minimum Shift Engagement | 1.5x |
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| Sun Minimum Shift Engagement | 2x |
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| PH Minimum Shift Engagement | 2.5x |
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Full Time Shiftworker
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| Pay Condition Name | Value | Trigger Condition |
| M-F Ordinary | Base hourly rate specified by customer |
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| Afternoon Shift | 1.15x |
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| Night Shift | 1.15x |
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| Sat | 1.5x |
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| Sun | 2x |
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| M-Sat Daily OT - First 2 Hours | 1.5x |
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| M-Sat Daily OT - After 2 Hours | 2x |
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| Sun Daily OT | 2x |
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| M-Sat Weekly OT - First 2 Hours | 1.5x |
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| M-Sat Weekly OT - After 2 Hours | 2x |
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| Sun Weekly OT | 2x |
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| Less than 10 hour break | 2x |
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| RDO | 1.5x |
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| PH | 2.5x |
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| PH Daily OT | 2.5x |
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| PH Weekly OT | 2.5x |
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| Sat Minimum Shift Engagement | 1.5x |
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| Sun Minimum Shift Engagement | 2x |
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| PH Minimum Shift Engagement | 2.5x |
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| RDO Minimum Shift Engagement | 1.5x |
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Part Time Shiftworker
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| Pay Condition Name | Value | Trigger Condition |
| M-F Ordinary | Base hourly rate specified by customer |
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| Afternoon Shift | 1.15x |
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| Night Shift | 1.15x |
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| Sat | 1.5x |
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| Sun | 2x |
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| M-Sat Daily OT - First 2 Hours | 1.5x |
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| M-Sat Daily OT - After 2 Hours | 2x |
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| Sun Daily OT | 2x |
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| M-Sat Weekly OT - First 2 Hours | 1.5x |
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| M-Sat Weekly OT - After 2 Hours | 2x |
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| Sun Weekly OT | 2x |
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| Less than 10 hour break | 2x |
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| RDO | 1.5x |
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| PH | 2.5x |
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| PH Daily OT | 2.5x |
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| PH Weekly OT | 2.5x |
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| Sat Minimum Shift Engagement | 1.5x |
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| Sun Minimum Shift Engagement | 2x |
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| PH Minimum Shift Engagement | 2.5x |
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| RDO Minimum Shift Engagement | 1.5x |
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Casual Shiftworker
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| Pay Condition Name | Value | Trigger Condition |
| M-F Ordinary | Base hourly rate specified by customer |
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| Afternoon Shift | 1.12x |
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| Night Shift | 1.12x |
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| Sat | 1.5x |
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| Sun | 2x |
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| M-Sat Daily OT | 2x |
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| Sun Daily OT | 2x |
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| M-Sat Weekly OT | 2x |
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| Sun Weekly OT | 2x |
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| Less than 10 hour break | 2x |
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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 Minimum Shift Engagement | 1x |
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| Sat Minimum Shift Engagement | 1.5x |
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| Sun Minimum Shift Engagement | 2x |
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| PH Minimum Shift Engagement | 2.5x |
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Full Time Permanent Night Shiftworker
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| Pay Condition Name | Value | Trigger Condition |
| M-F Ordinary | Base hourly rate specified by customer |
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| Night Shift | 1.3x |
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| Sat | 1.5x |
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| Sun | 2x |
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| M-Sun Daily OT | 2x |
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| M-Sun Weekly OT | 2x |
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| Less than 10 hour break | 2x |
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| RDO | 1.5x |
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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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| Sat Minimum Shift Engagement | 1.5x |
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| Sun Minimum Shift Engagement | 2x |
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| PH Minimum Shift Engagement | 2x |
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| RDO Minimum Shift Engagement | 15x |
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Part Time Permanent Night Shiftworker
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| Pay Condition Name | Value | Trigger Condition |
| M-F Ordinary | Base hourly rate specified by customer |
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| Night Shift | 1.3x |
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| Sat | 1.5x |
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| Sun | 2x |
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| M-Sun Daily OT | 2x |
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| M-Sun Weekly OT | 2x |
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| Less than 10 hour break | 2x |
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| RDO | 1.5x |
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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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| Sat Minimum Shift Engagement | 1.5x |
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| Sun Minimum Shift Engagement | 2x |
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| PH Minimum Shift Engagement | 2x |
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| RDO Minimum Shift Engagement | 1.5x |
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Casual Permanent Night Shiftworker
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| Pay Condition Name | Value | Trigger Condition |
| M-F Ordinary | Base hourly rate specified by customer |
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| Night Shift | 1.24x |
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| Sat | 1.5x |
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| Sun | 2x |
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| M-Sun Daily OT | 2x |
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| M-Sun Weekly OT | 2x |
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| Less than 10 hour break | 2x |
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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 Minimum Shift Engagement | 1x |
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| Sat Minimum Shift Engagement | 1.5x |
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| Sun Minimum Shift Engagement | 2x |
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| PH Minimum Shift Engagement | 2.5x |
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Allowances - Not Automated
- Afternoon/night shift not continuing for 5+ shifts in a row - first 2 hrs
- Afternoon/night shift not continuing for 5+ shifts in a row - after 2 hrs
- Availability For Duty Allowance
- Electrical distribution line maintenance & tree clearing allowance
- First Aid Allowance
- Industry Allowance
- Leading hand allowance - in charge of 3-10 employees
- Leading hand allowance - in charge of 11-20 employees
- Leading hand allowance - in charge of 20+ employees
- Living Away - Board & Lodging Allowance - Full Week
- Living Away From Home - Meal Allowance
- Meal Allowance - Overtime
- Multistorey Allowance - 0-15 Floors
- Multistorey Allowance - 16-30 Floors
- Multistorey Allowance - 31-45 Floors
- Multistorey Allowance - 46-60 Floors
- Multistorey Allowance - 60+ Floors
- Nominee Allowance (Electrical Mechanics)
- Ordering Materials Allowance (less than 4 days)
- Ordering Materials Allowance (4 or more days)
- Service Cores Allowance - For Work Above Each Further 15m
- Service Cores Allowance - Service Core >15m Above Building Of 0-15 Floor
- Service Cores Allowance - Service Core >15m Above Building Of 16-30 Floor
- Service Cores Allowance - Service Core >15m Above Building Of 31-45 Floor
- Service Cores Allowance - Service Core >15m Above Building Of 46-60 Floor
- Service Cores Allowance - Service Core >15m Above Building Of 60+ Floor
- Tool Allowance
- Towers Allowance - +15 Metres
- Travel Allowance - Start/Finish On Site - No Transport
- Travel Allowance - Start/Finish On Site - Offer Transport
- Travel Time Allowance
- Travel Time Allowance - 1st Year Adult Apprentice - After 1/1/14
- Travel Time Allowance - 1st Year Jr Appr - After 1/1/14 - Completed Y12
- Travel Time Allowance - 1st Year Jr Appr - After 1/1/14 - Did N/C Y12
- Travel Time Allowance - 1st Year Jr/Adult Appr - Started Before 1/1/14
- Travel Time Allowance - 2nd Year Adult Apprentice - After 1/1/14
- Travel Time Allowance - 2nd Year Jr Appr - After 1/1/14 - Completed Y12
- Travel Time Allowance - 2nd Year Jr Appr - After 1/1/14 - Did N/C Y12
- Travel Time Allowance - 2nd Year Jr/Adult Appr - Started Before 1/1/14
- Travel Time Allowance - 3rd Year Adult Apprentice - After 1/1/14
- Travel Time Allowance - 3rd Year Jr/Adult Appr - Started Before 1/1/14
- Travel Time Allowance - 4th Year Adult Apprentice - After 1/1/14
- Travel Time Allowance - 4th Year Jr/Adult Appr - Started Before 1/1/14
- Vehicle Allowance
To add the allowances into the export please follow the below instructions;
Approve the timesheet and unapprove the pay.
Add in the shift loading and number of units/hours.
Approve the pay.