Select Yes or No to the following questions:

• Update rule sets.

  Warning

  If you have changed the rule set period from the platform default, updating an award will reset it back to default.

  Select yes if you would like to update all the default rule sets assigned to this award.

• Preserve custom rules.

  Warning

  This option will only appear if you have created custom rules within an award pay condition rule set and you have selected Yes to the Update rule sets option. Select Yes if you want your custom rules preserved. If you choose No, the payroll platform will erase your custom rule data.

  Helpful Hint

  Upon a successful Award update, the system intelligently tracks neighbouring standard Award rules to keep your customisations automatically positioned exactly where they belong. If the Award update:

  • adds new standard rules in the rule set, your custom rules stay anchored right next to the original rules;
  • results in an adjacent standard rule being removed or renamed, your custom rule will automatically shift immediately before the next surviving standard rule, or safely move to the very end of the ruleset if both the rule before and after your custom rule is removed in the update.

  If you have multiple custom rules grouped within the same gap, they will securely maintain their relative order to one another throughout the update process.

• Preserve disabled rules.

  Warning

  Select yes if you want your disabled rules preserved. If you choose no, the payroll platform will enable the rule sets you had disabled.

• Update pay rates.

  Helpful Hint

  Select yes if you want the platform to update the pay rates for all employees linked to a pay rate template for this award. The platform will only update rates that have changed. If you have overridden the rate for an employee linked to the award, these rates will not change, and the platform will display a message if this is the case.

• Re-apply leave allowance templates to linked employees.

  Helpful Hint

  Select yes if you want to update any leave allowance templates as part of this award update.

• Preserve custom work types.

  Helpful Hint

  There are certain settings for an award work type that you can change, such as Automatically Enabled For and Work Maps To. If you have customised any of these settings and wish to preserve them, select Yes for this option when installing an award update.

• Preserve custom leave allowance templates.

  Important

  There are certain settings for an award leave allowance temple that you can change, such as the following:

  • Leave year start date.
  • Leave loading.
  • Enabled leave categories.
  • Leave category units.
  • Leave category unit type.
  • Leave category leave loading.
  • Accrues.
  • Accrue in advance.
  • Maximum accrual.
  • Carry over.
  • Contingent period/entitlement period.
  • Preserve custom pay periods.

  If you have customised just one setting listed above within a leave allowance template and you select yes to this question, the platform will deem the whole leave allowance as customised and will not update the template.

• Preserve custom pay categories.

  Important

  There are certain settings for an award pay category that you can change, such as the following:

  • Super rate.
  • Rate loading.
  • PAYG exempt.
  • Payroll tax-exempt.
  • Accrues leave.
  • Hide units on pay slip.
  • Payment classification.
  • Rate precision.

  If you have customised just one setting listed above and you want to preserve these settings, then select Yes to this question.

• Preserve custom rule set period.

  Helpful Hint

  Each pay condition has a rule-set default period defined by the award. There may be cases where you choose to apply a rule period that runs in line with your pay period, and so you customise this setting. If this is the case, make sure you select Yes to this question.

Click the Accept button.

Click the  Update From Payroll button.