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Manage a split award pay rate template and rule set

Available for the following plans: Standard, Premium (Payroll)
Available for the following User Access levels: Manager, Admin, Owner

The pay rate template and rule set customisation feature allows you to separate employee pay conditions when an employee cannot remain fully on a single Modern Award. This feature enables you to establish one base award while manually adding separate pay rates and rule modifications from a secondary award. You can also use this feature to test your updated rules via a configuration simulator to ensure correct automated interpretation before final deployment.

This article will show you how to manage the following:

Clone the pay rate template

Modify a pay rate template copy

Important

Because the employee will no longer be attached directly to a standard award, the pay rate template and rule set will not receive automatic updates during award releases. You must manually update the rates within the pay rate template for both the base award and secondary award rates when changes occur.

  1. Log in to Employment Hero.
  2. Navigate to Payroll Settings.
  3. Click Pay Rate Templates.
  4. Select Base Award.
  5. Locate the exact template assigned to the employee, which is noted on the pay run defaults screen of the employee.
  6. Click Clone on the right-hand side.
  7. Open the cloned template that now displays under your pay rate templates.
  8. Change the name to a unique identifier appropriate for the situation.
  9. Locate the Ordinary Hours category for the secondary award.
  10. Select the tick box on the left side and input the correct numerical rate.
  11. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Save.

Create the tag and work type

Establish tracking identifiers
  1. Log in to Employment Hero.
  2. Navigate to Payroll Settings.
  3. Click Pay Conditions.
  4. Click Tags.
  5. Click Add a Tag, enter a descriptive term such as the specific role, and assign the employee to the tag.
  6. Return to Payroll Settings, select Pay Conditions, and click Work Types.
  7. Click Add a Work Type, enter the name of the employee or another distinct identifier, and map it directly to the primary pay category of the employee.

Synchronise the human resources platform

Update platform integration data

Helpful Hint

Any configuration updates completed within the payroll platform require manual synchronisation to pull data through to the Human Resources platform. Failing to complete this action will cause the Human Resources platform to overwrite your payroll updates during the next automatic systemic synchronisation sync.

  1. Log in to the Human Resources platform interface.
  2. Navigate to General Settings.
  3. Click Add-ons.
  4. Select Action and click Update to complete data synchronisation.
  5. Proceed to create a new salary entry following synchronisation completion.
  6. Remove the employee from the standard award designation.
  7. Assign the employee to the newly constructed custom pay rate template.
  8. Open the specific pay details page for that individual user profile.
  9. Add the newly created work type directly to the profile configuration of the employee.

Configure the rule set

Replicate and adjust award rules

 

Clone rule set URL path transformation step

 

  1. Log in to Employment Hero.
  2. Navigate to Payroll Settings.
  3. Click Rule Sets.
  4. Select Base Award and click Edit Rules located on the right-hand side.
  5. Go to the browser address URL bar, locate the word Rules within the text link, replace it entirely with the word clone, and press Enter.
  6. Observe the code screen of programming, then click the browser Back button to return to the previous page view. The cloned rule set will now appear under your pay condition rule sets.
  7. Click on the precise name string to edit the text description to a relevant title, then click Save.
  8. Hover to the right-hand side of the new rule set row and click Edit Rules.
  9. Click Add Rule. Ensure you carefully select the specific pay category belonging to the secondary award and click Save.

 

Add rule within the new pay condition rule set workspace

 

  1. Click Reorder.

 

Select rule reorder mapping feature action

 

  1. Drag the created rule downwards sequentially until it sits directly underneath the existing ordinary hours rules and click Done.

 

Drag the award rule sequence placement block

 

  1. Click Test Rules at the top of the workspace area to perform verification scenario checks.

 

Select test rules feature layout view

 

For the testing example, timesheet details are populated across two distinct days, applying the work type configuration selectively to a single day to confirm accurate rule execution. The testing architecture confirms that the specific pay rates linked to the secondary award execute precisely as intended on the assigned day.

 

Verification summary sheet of applied split award calculations

 

Activate the draft rules

Commit rule modifications to user profiles

Important

You must always complete simulation verification checks on draft rules before changing their status to active. This ensures data correctness and protects any other personnel linked to those rule matrices. Complete these adjustments completely outside of active pay run windows to prevent altering existing historical information calculations.

 

Activate draft configuration status toggle screen view

 

  1. Log in to Employment Hero.
  2. Navigate to your customised rule set workspace.
  3. Change the rule status designation from Draft to Active.
  4. Navigate to the individual employee profile screen.
  5. Attach the activated rule set directly to the profile fields of the employee.
  6. Click Save to secure the profile configuration update.

 

Apply configured rule matrix selection to specified user profile interface

 

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