Overview
This article provides guidelines about using the pre-built Award package. For further information about this industry award, refer to Cement, Lime and Quarrying Award 2020 [MA000055] - Fair Work Ombudsman.
Install and configure the pre-built award package
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The award's default Rule Set Period is set to Weekly that ends every Sunday. If you follow a different work pattern or roster period, you can review and set the rule set period date that applies to your organisation.
Special notes
Timesheets
For the rules to apply correctly, the timesheet must include the start and end times.
Paid Breaks
Paid rest breaks do not require clocking in or out. Should the client require break times to be recorded, they can refer to this link.
Leaves
When converting leave to a timesheet, use the employee's standard hours of work. Adjust the start or end time as necessary to trigger any applicable penalty rates.
Salaried
Salaried employees not covered by the Annualised Wage Clause can use the "Salaried" employment agreement.
Work types
Work types are a description of the kind of shift you are working, and you select them when you record a timesheet. The following is a list of work types employees can select on their timesheet, and the meaning of each item.
Work types
Work type |
Description |
|---|---|
| 8hr Break Exception (Shift Cover/Roster Change) | Choose this work type if the employee uses 8hr Break Exception. |
| Annual Leave Taken | Choose this work type when annual leave is taken. |
| Compassionate Leave Taken | Choose this work type when compassionate leave is taken. |
| Excess Kilometres (Temp Transfer) | Choose this work type when Paid vehicle allowance for excess distance applied. |
| Excess Travel Time (Temp Transfer) | Choose this work type when Excess Travel Time will be paid. |
| Leave Without Pay Taken | Choose this work type when any unpaid leave is taken. |
| Long Service Leave Taken | Choose this work type when any unpaid leave is taken. |
| No Meal Break | Choose this work type if the employee is working through meal break. |
| No Minimum Shift Engagement | Choose this work type where the requirement of minimum engagement is not applicable. |
| No Rest Period After Overtime | Choose this work type where minimum 10 consecutive hours off duty between work on successive days is applied. |
| Paid Community Service Leave Taken | Choose this work type when community service leave is taken. |
| Paid Family and Domestic Violence Leave Taken | Choose this work type when paid family and domestic violence leave taken. |
| Personal/Carer's Leave Taken | Choose this work type when personal and/or carer's leave is taken. |
| Public Holiday not worked | Choose this work type where a Permanent employee is not required to work on a shift falling on a public holiday that the employee would have otherwise worked had it not been a public holiday. |
| Time In Lieu Taken | Choose this work type when time in lieu is taken. |
| Rostered Days Off Taken | Choose this work type when rostered day off is taken. |
| Vehicle Allowance Claim | Choose this work type if the employee uses their own vehicle during working hours. The kilometres travelled should be entered into the 'units' field. |
Shift conditions
Shift Conditions are further details you can add to a shift where perhaps more than one condition applies to your shift. Shift conditions are selected when you edit a timesheet record. The following is a list of Shift Conditions employees can select on their timesheet, and the meaning of each item.
Shift Conditions
Shift Conditions |
Description |
|---|---|
| 10 hrs agreement | Select this shift condition if by agreement between employee and employer an employee can work 10 ordinary hours in a shift. |
| TIL Accrual - Overtime | Select this shift condition if the employee elects to accrue time in lieu rather than be paid overtime for a shift. |
| Toilet cleaning | Select this shift condition if the employee is engaged for the major portion of a day or shift in cleaning toilets. |
| Meal Allowance - no meal supplied | Select this shift condition when required to work beyond 6.00 pm or if overtime continues beyond 10.00 pm, an employee will be provided with a 30 minute meal break and paid the meal allowance. |
Tags
Employee Tags are specific conditions typically related to the employee's agreement. These are often conditions negotiated and agreed between the employer and the employee, or unique characteristics of the employee's role. Payment of these provisions is usually of a recurring and ongoing nature.
Tags
Tags |
Description |
|---|---|
| Catering employees | Assign this tag if an employee is performing catering services. |
| First aid | Assign this tag if an employee has an appropriate first aid qualification and is appointed first aid officer. |
| Laundry | Assign this tag if an employee is required to perform work determined by the leading hand or supervisor to be of a dirty nature. |
| Leading hand 3–10 employees | Assign this tag if an employee is assigned leading hand in charge of 3-10 employees. |
| Leading hand 11–20 employees | Assign this tag if an employee is assigned leading hand in charge of 11-20 employees. |
| Leading hand more than 20 employees | Assign this tag if an employee is assigned leading hand in charge of more than 20 employees. |
System limitations
Please note that rules cannot interpret or calculate the clauses below due to platform limitations and will require manual intervention or a workaround.
Clause 20.8 Time off instead of payment for overtime
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(e) Time off must be taken:
- (i) within the period of 6 months after the overtime is worked; and
- (ii) at a time or times within that period of 6 months agreed by the employee and employer.
- (f) If the employee requests at any time, to be paid for overtime covered by an agreement under clause 19.6 but not taken as time off, the employer must pay the employee for the overtime, in the next pay period following the request, at the overtime rate applicable to the overtime when worked.
- (g) If time off for overtime that has been worked is not taken within the period of 6 months mentioned in clause 19.6(e), the employer must pay the employee for the overtime, in the next pay period following those 6 months, at the overtime rate applicable to the overtime when worked.
Clause 16.2(b) Industry allowance
To prevent underpayment, the system will always top up the industry allowance to meet the minimum engagement level. It automatically applies the minimum industry allowance required for each shift. If a workday includes multiple broken shifts, there may be an excess allowance applied. In these instances, the payroll administrators will need to manually adjust the pay run to remove any over-applied allowance.
For example:
When a part-time employee works more than one shift in a day:
- First shift (8 am–9 am) 1 hour
- Second shift (10 am–11 am) 1 hour
2 hours will be topped up at the end of the day according to the minimum engagement but 4 units of Industry allowance are paid per each entry shift. The administrator is required to adjust the pay run to correct any excess industry allowance that has been applied.