The article provides guidelines about when to use the different work types and tags included as part of the pre-built Legal Services Award 2020 [MA000116] package. For further information about this industry award, refer to Legal Services Award.
Key updates
Select the current financial year tab to see award updates for the 2025/26 financial year, while all previous updates before this time you can find in the historical financial years tab.
17th
We have updated the 20.2(a) Apply Overtime (FT/PT) – after noon Saturday rule to ensure the correct overtime pay category for Permanent employee is triggered.
30th
We have introduced a new suite of configurations for Salaried Employment Agreements to allow the employers to manage the salaried employees, who are under Individual flexibility arrangements, directly within the award instead of having to remove them.
This introduction, which is an enhancement rather than a legislative update requirement, includes the items below if they do not already exist within an award:
- Rule Set to disregard timesheets.
- Pay Rate Templates.
- Employment Agreements for all employee types (full-time, part-time, and casual).
For detailed information on the changes, please refer to our guide here.
We have also renamed all leave allowance templates by adding the award code as a prefix. This ensures each template can be accurately associated with its respective award, particularly in cases where template names are identical.
27th
We have updated the rounding method for "Casual Ordinary Hours" pay category to ensure all casual rates are aligned with pay guide rate.
1st
We have updated the award to reflect the Fair Work Commission's
National Minimum Wage increase detailed in the Annual
Wage
Review 2024-25 decision and also includes updates to
expense-related
allowances. You can find more information on the Determinations
here
and
here.
These changes come into effect from the first full pay
period
on or after the 1st July 2025. Please install these updates
after you have finalised your last pay run before the
first
full pay period beginning on or after the 1st July 2025.
1st
We have updated the award to reflect the Fair Work Commission's National Minimum Wage increase detailed in the Annual Wage Review 2023-24 decision and also includes updates to expense-related allowances. You can find more information on the Determinations here and here.
These changes come into effect from the first full pay period on or after the 1st July 2024. Please install these updates after you have finalised your last pay run before the first full pay period beginning on or after the 1st July 2024.
We have also updated the "Community Service Leave Taken" pay category, where it does not accrue super.
18th
We have updated the Uniform Allowance entitlement for Permanent Part-time and Casual employees, where they would receive 1 unit of uniform allowance per week. The Uniform Allowance rule for Full-time employees have also been updated to ensure the correct tax calculations apply.
1st
From 1 August, all employees are entitled to 10 days of paid family and domestic violence leave each year. The (Unpaid) Family and Domestic Violence Leave configuration settings under awards have been updated - the leave category is disabled from award leave allowance templates, and the work type is not enabled automatically for all employees. Please ensure that employees no longer use the unpaid leave category or work type.
1st
We have updated the award to reflect the Fair Work Commission’s National Minimum Wage increase detailed in the Annual Wage Review 2022-23 decision and includes updates to expense-related allowances. You can find information on the Determinations here and here.
These changes come into effect from the first full pay period on or after the 1st July 2023. Please install these updates after you have finalised your last pay run before the first full pay period beginning on or after the 1st of July 2023.
5th
We have updated the Legal Services - Permanent and Casual Employees pay conditions rule set to reflect a new enhancement which will calculate the higher of annual leave loading or penalties based on the entire leave period, aligning with the Fair Work calculation.
31st
We have updated the award to reflect changes made as part of the Fair Work Decision regarding Paid Family and Domestic Violence Leave. You can find further information on what changes we applied to the platform and what you should be aware of within this article. We have created the following new categories:
- New Leave Category: Paid Family and Domestic Violence Leave.
- New Pay Category: Paid Family and Domestic Violence Leave.
- New Work Type: Paid Family and Domestic Violence Leave taken.
We have updated the Leave Allowance Templates to disable the existing unpaid Family and Domestic Violence and we have enabled the new Paid Family and Domestic Violence Leave. We also updated any impacted rule conditions.
As part of Fair Work's ruling, an employee must be paid their full pay rate; this includes their base rate plus any incentive-based payments and bonuses, loadings, monetary allowances, overtime or penalty rates, and any other separately identifiable amount.
We updated the award to reflect the Fair Work Commission’s
National Minimum Wage increase, as detailed in the
Annual Wage Review 2021-22 decision.
Including updates to expense-related allowances. You
can
find information on the determinations
here
and
here.
These changes come into effect from the first full pay
period
on or after the 1st July 2022. Please instal these updates
after you have finalised your last pay run before the
first
full pay period beginning on or after the 1st July 2022.
We have now disabled unpaid pandemic leave as this entitlement
has now expired within this award. Additional information
can be found on the
Fairwork website.
Installing the pre-built award package
To read further details on how to instal and configure this Pre-built Award Template, please review the following help article. Employment Hero does not guarantee, or warrant the accuracy, completeness, or up-to-date nature of the service. Before relying on the information, users should carefully evaluate its accuracy, currency, completeness and relevance for their purposes, and should obtain any appropriate professional advice relevant to their particular circumstances.
Coverage
This industry award covers employers throughout Australia in the legal services and their employees in the classifications listed in Schedule A—Classifications to the exclusion of any other modern award.
Work types
Work types are a description of the kind of shift you are working on, and you select these 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.
Choose this work type when, by agreement between an employer and individual employee, the ten-hour break may be reduced to a period of no less than eight hours.
Tags
Employee Tags are specific conditions typically related to the employees agreement. These are often conditions negotiated and agreed between the employer and the employee, or unique characteristics of the employees role. Payment of these provisions is usually of a recurring and ongoing nature.
Assign this tag to an employee if they work in a six-day workplace.