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Electrical, Electronic and Communications Contracting Award 2020 (MA000025)

Loren Mathewson
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The article provides guidelines about when to use the different work types and tags included as part of the pre-built Electrical, Electronic and Communications Contracting award package. For further information about the Electrical, Electronic and Communications Contracting Award, refer to Electrical, Electronic and Communications Contracting Award.

Key updates

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August 2023

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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.

July 2023

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We have updated the Apprentice and Adult apprentice Pay Rate Templates to separate the base rate and the all-purpose allowance in line with the single touch payroll phase two employer reporting guidelines to separately report all-purpose allowances against the relevant allowance classification.

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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 also 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 July 2023. We have also updated the Community Service Leave category to make sure it pays at base rate.

Installing the pre-built award package

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Special notes on this award

We have designed the all purpose allowances in this award to show separately on the pay slips. While there is an exhaustive list, we have chosen this method for improved transparency and audit quality of the final pay slips. aligning with the Australian Tax Offices (ATO) requirements for Single Touch Payroll (STP) Phase two reporting. The platform will trigger the respective all purpose allowances by employee tag, for example Electrician's licence allowance and Tool allowance. The Electrical Line Distribution and Tree Clearing Allowance is triggered by work type.

Work types

Additional meals not included in fares/accommodation (1 unit = 1 meal)

Use this work type when you have worked away from home (overnight). 1 unit represents a meal which is not otherwise included in the cost of travel and accommodation.

Annual leave taken

Use this work type where you have taken annual leave. Enter the hours you would have worked had you not been on leave.

Available for duty

Use this work type if you are not at work but have been scheduled as available to work.

Call back

This work type should be selected when an employee has been recalled to work for any reason before or after completing their normal roster or on a day on which they did not work.

Community service leave taken

Choose this work type when community service leave is taken.

Compassionate leave taken

Choose this work type when compassionate leave is taken.

Electrical distribution line maintenance and tree clearing

This work type is chosen when engaged in line maintenance or tree clearing and will apply an all purpose allowance for each hour worked.

Family and domestic leave violence leave taken

Choose this work type when family and domestic violence leave is taken.

Hours worked

Choose this work type for normal shifts where nothing else listed here is applicable.

Kilometres travelled -(1 unit = 1km)
Choose this work type and fill out the units field as kilometres travelled.
Leave without pay
Use this work type if you have taken time off without an available leave balance
Living away from home (1 unit = 1 week)

This work type will pay a weekly allowance to the employee where they have worked away from home for the week.

Long service leave taken

Use this work type where long-service leave is taken.

Personal/carer's leave taken

Use this work type where personal / carers leave is taken.

Public holiday (day off)

Use this holiday where you are a permanent employee and did not work on a public holiday. Enter the hours you would have normally worked had the day not been a public holiday.

RDO leave taken

Use this work type where the employee has had a rostered day off.

Single call-out

Use this work type if you are available for duty and have only been called out once. Do not use this if you are called out multiple times. In this case, use hours worked.

Special allowance 1 - Multistorey allowance - 0-15 floors
Use this work type if you were working on a building site where the building was up to 15 floors.
Special allowance 2 - Multistorey allowance - 16-30 floors
Use this work type if you were working on a building site where the building was 16-30 floors.
Special allowance 2 - Towers allowance -15-30 metres
Use this work type if you are an employee working on a chimney stack, spire, tower radio or television mast or tower, air shaft (other than above ground in a multistorey building), lift shaft, service shaft, cooling tower or silo, where the construction is between 15-30 metres in height.
Special allowance 3 - Multistorey allowance - 31-45 floors
Use this work type if you were working on a building site where the building was 31-45 floors.
Special allowance 4 - Service cores more than 15 metres above the main structure of a multistorey building of 0-15 floors
Use this work type if you are an employee working on a service core at more than 15 metres above the highest point of the main structure and the main structure is up to 15 floors high.
Special allowance 5 - Multistorey allowance - 46-60 floors
Use this work type if you were working on a building site where the building was 46-60 floors.
Special allowance 6 - Service cores more than 15 metres above the main structure of a multistorey building of 16-30 floors
Use this work type if you are an employee working on a service core at more than 15 metres above the highest point of the main structure and the main structure is 16-30 floors high.
Special allowance 6 - Towers allowance - 30-45 metres
Use this work type if you are an employee working on a chimney stack, spire, tower radio or television mast or tower, air shaft (other than above ground in a multistorey building), lift shaft, service shaft, cooling tower or silo, where the construction is between 30-45 metres in height.
Special allowance 7 - Multistorey allowance - more than 60 floors
Use this work type if you were working on a building site where the building was more than 60 floors.
Special allowance 8 - Service cores more than 15 metres above the main structure of a multistorey building of 31-45 floors
Use this work type if you are an employee working on a service core at more than 15 metres above the highest point of the main structure and the main structure is 31-45 floors high.
Special allowance 9 - Service cores more than 15 metres above the main structure of a multistorey building of - 46-60 floors
Use this work type if you are an employee working on a service core at more than 15 metres above the highest point of the main structure and the main structure is 46-60 floors high.
Special allowance 10 - Towers allowance - 45-60 metres
Use this work type if you are an employee working on a chimney stack, spire, tower radio or television mast or tower, air shaft (other than above ground in a multistorey building), lift shaft, service shaft, cooling tower or silo, where the construction is between 45-60 metres in height.
Special allowance 11 - Service cores more than 15 metres above the main structure of a multistorey building of - more than 60 floors
Use this work type if you are an employee working on a service core at more than 15 metres above the highest point of the main structure and the main structure is 60 floors or more high.
Special allowance 12 - Towers allowance - higher than 60 metres
Use this work type if you are an employee working on a chimney stack, spire, tower radio or television mast or tower, air shaft (other than above ground in a multistorey building), lift shaft, service shaft, cooling tower or silo, where the construction is above 60 metres in height.
Start/finish on job site allowance - over 50 km from depot - own transport (1 unit = 1 day)
Use this allowance if you started or finished onsite over 50km from the registered depot and your employer did not offer transport.
Start/finish on job site allowance - over 50 km from depot - transport provided (1 unit = 1 day)
Use this allowance if you started or finished onsite over 50km from the registered depot and your employer has offered transport.
Start/finish on job site allowance - up to 50 km from depot - own transport (1 unit = 1 day
Use this allowance if you started or finished onsite up to 50km from the registered depot and your employer does not offer transport.
Start/finish on job site allowance - up to 50 km from depot - transport provided (1 unit = 1 day)
Use this allowance if you started or finished onsite over 50km from the registered depot and your employer has offered transport.
TIL leave taken

Use this work type if you have taken time off in lieu.

Unrelieved shift worker
Use this work type if you are a shiftwork employee and you have needed to work additional time on your rostered day off before being relieved by a replacement employee.
Work on a rostered day off
Use this work type if you are called to work on your usual roster day off.
Working through a break
Use this work type if you've worked through a break from the start of when you should have had a break to when you took a break.

Tags

Act as a nominee for an electrical contractor
Assign this tag to an electrical mechanic who holds the relevant state electrical licence and acts as a nominee for an electrical contractor.
Agreed 12-hour shift duration
Assign this tag if it is agreed that one shift per week can have a 12-hour duration.
Electrician's licence
Assign this tag if the employee is required to hold and use an electrical licence to perform their duties.
First aid allowance
Assign this tag if the employee has an appropriate first aid qualification and will be the designated ongoing first aid officer during every shift they are rostered to work.
In charge of 3-10 employees
Assign this take if you are assigned leading hand in charge of 3-10 employees. If you are in charge of someone with a higher classification than yours, use the higher classification setting instead.
In charge of 11-20 employees
Assign this take if you are assigned leading hand in charge of 11-20 employees. If you are in charge of someone with a higher classification than yours, use the higher classification setting instead.
In charge of more than 20 employees
Assign this take if you are assigned a leading hand in charge of more than 20 employees. If you are in charge of someone with a higher classification than yours, use the higher classification setting instead.
Permanent night shift
Assign this tag if the employee has been on night shift permanently for more than 4 weeks of work.
RDO

Assign this tag if the employee will accumulate 24 minutes of each shift to RDO to accumulate 7.6 hours after 19 shifts.

Required to order materials

Assign this tag if the employee is in the building and construction industry and is left in charge of a job which is of a duration of one week or more, and is required to order materials for a job on which two employees (including the person receiving the extra payment) are engaged.

Tool allowance
Assign this tag if the employee is required to provide their own tools.
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