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The Modern Award Library

Every current Australian modern award, rewritten as a practical guide. Find the award that may cover your team, understand the rules that matter in payroll and rostering, then check the official source before you act.

122
current awards, A to Z: 1 August 2026
most recent consolidation on the register: Fair Work
every guide links to the official Commission source

An award is selected by the employer's industry and the work an employee performs, not just their job title. These guides help you investigate the right award; they do not replace a coverage or classification assessment.

Change note1 July 2026

Award minimum wages increased by 4.75% from the first full pay period on or after 1 July 2026. Fair Work's pay guides and calculator have been updated. Separate further increases apply from 1 August 2026 for some employees under the Nurses Award.

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Agriculture and primary industries

10 awards

MA000114Aquaculture Industry AwardThe Aquaculture Industry Award is built for aquaculture operations rather than general farming. Employers should focus on 4 things from the start: whether the business falls within the aquaculture definition, whether the employee belongs in the finfish or shellfish stream, whether the roster is being run as day work or shiftwork, and whether special duty allowances such as diving or tool allowances have been triggered.MA000024Cotton Ginning AwardThe Cotton Ginning Award is operational and seasonal. Small businesses usually come unstuck by skipping the written employment type and part-time setup, missing higher duties on the gin floor, or forgetting the weekly pay rule, 2 hour casual minimum and 7 day final pay deadline.MA000008Horse and Greyhound Training AwardThe Horse and Greyhound Training Award is a hands-on operational award. The most common issues are whether the work is truly covered stable and training work, whether casuals are being used within the award's limits, and whether race meeting attendance and travel are being paid as separate award events rather than folded into a flat rate.MA000028Horticulture AwardThe Horticulture Award is one of the most practical and technical modern awards for small business owners. The hardest areas are usually coverage in mixed farming businesses, making sure new workers progress out of Level 1 on time, and setting lawful piece rates before the season starts rather than trying to fix them later.MA000033Nursery AwardThe Nursery Award covers more than growing plants. It also reaches connected nursery processing, packing, storage and distribution work. The key compliance issues are getting the industry boundary right, classifying by real duties, documenting part time patterns and separating ordinary hours, overtime, public holiday work and allowances properly.MA000035Pastoral AwardThe Pastoral Award is a multi stream farming award, not a single farm pay rule. The main compliance task is identifying the right stream first and then applying the correct engagement, rostering and overtime rules for that stream instead of treating every worker on the property the same.MA000040Silviculture AwardThe Silviculture Award is task specific and field driven. The main risks are putting workers in the wrong grade, running informal RDO systems, using piecework without the award safety net and overlooking the all purpose and travel related allowances that sit on top of the base rate.MA000087Sugar Industry AwardThe Sugar Industry Award is best understood as several related rule sets inside one award. For most employers, the first real compliance issue is not the rate itself. It is whether the worker has been placed in the right sector and stream before rosters, payroll and allowances are built.MA000090Wine Industry AwardThe Wine Industry Award is a specialist industry award for wine grape growing, wineries, wine distilleries and related storage work. The main compliance pressure points are getting coverage and classification right, documenting employment type correctly, and rostering inside the special ordinary hours rules for cellar door work and vineyard work during the vintage.MA000044Wool Storage, Sampling and Testing AwardThe Wool Storage, Sampling and Testing Award is a narrow industry award for raw wool testing, skin, hide and wool storage services. The main compliance risks are choosing the right stream, treating excess part time hours as overtime, managing long ordinary shifts and work cycles correctly, and paying the required allowances and reimbursements.

Construction and trades

7 awards

MA000054Asphalt Industry AwardThe Asphalt Industry Award is really about three things: whether the work is genuinely asphalt industry work, whether the employee is in the right skill level, and whether the 4 week roster and payroll system have been set up to match the award. Most errors come from treating it like a general labouring award or from mishandling rostered days off and all-purpose allowances.MA000020Building and Construction General On-site AwardThe Building and Construction General On-site Award is driven by three things: genuine on-site coverage, the correct construction stream, and disciplined administration of hire type and RDOs. Small construction businesses should get those foundations right before they rely on any pay or roster setting.MA000025Electrical, Electronic and Communications Contracting AwardThis award is mainly about getting the contracting boundary, worker grade and hours model right. Small business mistakes usually come from blending contracting and manufacturing work, moving part-time employees outside their stated hours, or forgetting that all-purpose allowances and weekend overtime minimums change the real pay outcome.MA000101Gardening and Landscaping Services AwardThis award covers more than basic garden maintenance. The big issues are overlap with other site-based awards, proper use of the classification structure, rostered days off and the special rule for water restriction rostering.MA000029Joinery and Building Trades AwardThe Joinery and Building Trades Award is a specific trade and workshop award, not a broad substitute for every building related job. The main risks are using the wrong award, failing to document part-time and casual arrangements properly, and overlooking the all purpose and trade specific allowances that shape total pay.MA000032Mobile Crane Hiring AwardThe Mobile Crane Hiring Award is a technical award built around the mobile crane hire service industry and a detailed classification structure. The main compliance issues are award boundary questions, correct operator classification, proper use of rostered day off arrangements and accurate separation of base pay, industry allowance and premium time.MA000036Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers AwardThe Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award is technical because it combines industry coverage, occupational coverage and several different engagement models. The main risk areas are choosing the wrong hire type, mishandling the 4 week cycle, and overlooking how classification and all-purpose allowances affect the rest of payroll.

Education and care

6 awards

MA000120Children's Services AwardIf your business runs a children's service or early childhood education operation, the main compliance pressure points are coverage, written part-time patterns, rostering, non-contact time and correct classification of educators, support workers and qualifying cooks.MA000075Educational Services (Post-Secondary Education) AwardThe main risks under the Educational Services (Post-Secondary Education) Award are using the wrong staff stream, issuing weak appointment documents and treating teaching delivery as if it were ordinary clock time. Small businesses and training providers also need separate casual and part-time settings for each stream.MA000076Educational Services (Schools) General Staff AwardThe biggest risks under the Educational Services (Schools) General Staff Award are misclassifying teaching and non-teaching roles, leaving term-time arrangements undocumented, and using the wrong roster model for the service group. Schools also need close control over casual minimums, part-time additional hours, annualised boarding supervision and sleepover settings.MA000077Educational Services (Teachers) AwardThe main risks under the Educational Services (Teachers) Award are misclassifying non-teaching roles as teaching roles, changing part-time loads informally, and using the wrong hours framework for the setting. Schools and early childhood services also need close control over casual duration limits, attendance planning and the separate rules for Director and leadership allowances.MA000006Higher Education Industry - Academic Staff - AwardThe Higher Education Industry - Academic Staff - Award is a specialist award for academic staff in covered higher education institutions. The practical compliance work is confirming that the role is genuinely academic, issuing a complete appointment instrument, matching payroll to the correct academic level, and keeping enterprise coverage and after-hours contact issues separate from the basic award settings.MA000007Higher Education Industry - General Staff - AwardThe Higher Education Industry - General Staff - Award is about the non-academic workforce in higher education. The main pressure points are choosing the right staff category, documenting the employment type properly, classifying at the correct HEW level, and using the right ordinary hours and roster notice rules for that category.

Energy and resources

10 awards

MA000001Black Coal Mining Industry AwardThis award is built around black coal mine operations, not general resources work. The biggest risk areas are getting the right classification stream, using casual employment only where the award allows it, and making sure rosters fit the 35 hour ordinary week and long shift rules.MA000045Coal Export Terminals AwardThis is a specialist award for coal export terminal operations. The main compliance issues are whether the site fits the terminal definition, whether employees are placed in the right stream and whether rosters are built around the award's 35 hour and shiftwork rules.MA000088Electrical Power Industry AwardThe Electrical Power Industry Award is mainly about getting coverage, classification and roster design right. Small businesses most often get into trouble by using the wrong industry award, defaulting to a 38 hour week, or treating after-hours and site allowances as informal add-ons.MA000061Gas Industry AwardThis award can cover more than field crews alone. The main issues are checking the exclusions carefully, classifying mixed technical and support roles properly, and keeping separate payroll logic for day work, shiftwork and availability duty.MA000064Hydrocarbons Field Geologists AwardThe Hydrocarbons Field Geologists Award is a specialist field award for a small set of mudlogging and formation evaluation roles. The important compliance points are getting coverage right, using the award's own progression structure, and separating absorbed salary components from the specific allowance events the award still requires.MA000062Hydrocarbons Industry (Upstream) AwardThe Hydrocarbons Industry Upstream Award reaches a wide range of upstream site based work, but it also excludes several major categories of workers and operations. The main compliance work is matching the activity and stream correctly, structuring cycle work lawfully, and paying industry specific allowances separately and accurately.MA000011Mining Industry AwardThe Mining Industry Award is built for mine operations and closely connected site based work. The biggest compliance issues are usually coverage boundaries, correct classification, long shift roster design and separating ordinary pay, overtime, penalty rates and allowances correctly.MA000072Oil Refining and Manufacturing AwardThe Oil Refining and Manufacturing Award is a downstream refinery and connected terminal award with a 35 hour ordinary week and several distinct classification streams. The key compliance issues are getting the coverage boundary right, separating clerical from non clerical treatment and managing shift systems, overtime and annualised wage arrangements carefully.MA000108Professional Diving Industry (Industrial) AwardThis award is for industrial diving operations, not recreational diving. The main pressure points are the coverage line between the two diving awards, the Schedule A classification, whether the operation is inshore or offshore, and whether higher duties or allowance triggers were actually met.MA000107Salt Industry AwardThe Salt Industry Award is specialist and operationally detailed. The common mistakes are defaulting to a broader manufacturing framework, under classifying multi skilled site workers and overlooking the separate rules for day work, shiftwork, cycle work, junior and apprentice settings and allowances.

Health and community services

11 awards

MA000115Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers and Practitioners and Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Services AwardThis award is built for Aboriginal community controlled health services and for specific Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health occupations. The main compliance risks are coverage overlap with other health awards, getting the role family wrong, and under-documenting part-time patterns, progression and allowances.MA000018Aged Care AwardThe Aged Care Award is mainly about getting coverage, classifications and roster structure right. The practical pressure points are part-time paperwork, the 28 day rostering model, ADO tracking, rest breaks and clear uniform and equipment arrangements.MA000098Ambulance and Patient Transport Industry AwardThe Ambulance and Patient Transport Industry Award can be highly relevant for ambulance operators, non emergency patient transport providers and businesses involved in ambulance education and training, but it is not a simple label based award. The main compliance issues are usually the initial coverage check, the choice of Schedule A classification, written part time arrangements, casual loading rules, 40 hour roster cycles and correct treatment of all purpose allowances.MA000118Animal Care and Veterinary Services AwardThe Animal Care and Veterinary Services Award is really 2 coverage streams in one instrument: private veterinary surgery practices and some community based animal care charities. The main compliance issues are deciding which stream the business sits in, classifying staff by principal functions, handling the narrow student casual exception correctly, and separately checking the special rostering, on call, study leave and insurance related rules that apply to veterinary surgeons.MA000027Health Professionals and Support Services AwardThe Health Professionals and Support Services Award covers a broad slice of the health industry. The main practical challenge is separating support services employees from health professional employees, then applying the correct classification, ordinary hours rule and allowances for the setting in which the work is done.MA000099Labour Market Assistance Industry AwardThe Labour Market Assistance Industry Award is designed for employment assistance services delivered under government arrangements, not for every welfare or training organisation. The main compliance points are choosing the right engagement model, documenting flexible hours properly, and paying the excursion, travel and client service related entitlements the award specifically recognises.MA000031Medical Practitioners AwardThe Medical Practitioners Award is mainly about getting the practitioner stream right and then building roster and payroll systems around that stream. The real compliance risks are assuming the award covers every health role, misclassifying doctors as they move through training, career or specialist stages, overlooking the rostered days off and shiftwork rules that apply to some streams, and failing to test on-call or management duties against the award's own allowance criteria.MA000034Nurses AwardThe Nurses Award is an occupationally focused award that turns on real nursing or midwifery duties and the Schedule A classification structure. The main compliance risks are coverage overlap, incorrect stream or pay point selection, rostering errors, and mishandling on call, recall, shiftwork and allowance rules.MA000012Pharmacy Industry AwardThis award is built for community pharmacy and is unusually detailed. The main risk areas are applying it to the wrong premises, misclassifying assistants and pharmacists, and mishandling part-time roster changes or pharmacy-specific allowances.MA000100Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Industry AwardThe Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Industry Award is a detailed operational award. For small employers, the main pressure points are using the correct schedule stream, documenting part-time guaranteed hours properly, posting compliant rosters, handling sleepovers carefully, and checking break, clothing and equipment obligations separately from base pay.MA000103Supported Employment Services AwardThe Supported Employment Services Award is most useful when you treat it as a classification and service-model award. The main risks are confusing supported wage assessment with classification, blending supported employment work with other care work, and overlooking the evening, weekend and allowance triggers built into the award.

Manufacturing and production

15 awards

MA000060Aluminium Industry AwardThe Aluminium Industry Award is broad but not simple. The practical risks are getting coverage wrong at mixed sites, under-documenting status and classification, and building rosters or allowance settings without following the award's detailed production rules.MA000021Business Equipment AwardThis award is best understood as a business equipment sales, installation and servicing award. The real compliance work is making sure the business is actually in that industry, then documenting roster flexibility and field service allowances properly.MA000055Cement, Lime and Quarrying AwardThe Cement, Lime and Quarrying Award is really two award streams in one. Small businesses should settle the correct stream first, then align classification, hours, higher duties and allowances to that stream before they rely on any payroll or roster setting.MA000056Concrete Products AwardThis award is built for concrete products manufacturing. The main compliance issues are the industry coverage call, skill based classification, written part-time patterns, majority agreement for longer ordinary days, higher duties and the correct all-purpose allowance coding.MA000096Dry Cleaning and Laundry Industry AwardThe main compliance issues under the Dry Cleaning and Laundry Industry Award are choosing the correct stream, documenting part-time patterns properly, and keeping dry cleaning rosters, laundry averaging and laundry shiftwork separate. Small businesses also need to stay on top of minimum engagements, rostered day off accrual and task-based allowances.MA000073Food, Beverage and Tobacco Manufacturing AwardThis award is designed for production businesses. The main risks are confusing manufacturing with retail or hospitality, missing the separate day work and shiftwork rules, and overlooking allowances that affect later payroll calculations.MA000026Graphic Arts, Printing and Publishing AwardThe Graphic Arts, Printing and Publishing Award is broader than many business owners expect. It can cover printing, newspaper production, mailhouse work, bookbinding and some commercial art work connected with the industry. The main pressure points are coverage, correct classification, newspaper-specific minimum engagements and payroll treatment of allowances.MA000010Manufacturing and Associated Industries and Occupations AwardThe Manufacturing and Associated Industries and Occupations Award reaches much further than a production line. The most important compliance tasks are mapping the work carefully against the award's broad coverage language, documenting part-time and casual arrangements properly, controlling weekend and spread of hours arrangements, classifying employees accurately across the C, V and D streams, and building any all-purpose allowances into payroll instead of treating them as optional extras.MA000059Meat Industry AwardThe Meat Industry Award is detailed because the industry itself is detailed. The biggest practical issues are identifying the correct establishment type, using daily hire only where the award permits it, classifying employees by the actual task work described in Schedule A, recognising that mixed sites can run on more than one hours framework at once, and capturing the many allowance triggers created by temperature, supervision, clothing, overtime and location changes.MA000069Pharmaceutical Industry AwardThis award is mainly about pharmaceutical manufacturing, wholesaling and closely connected support work. The biggest risks are using it for the wrong type of business, mixing up the manufacturing and warehouse streams, and mismanaging part-time or casual hours.MA000074Poultry Processing AwardThe Poultry Processing Award is built around production tasks and plant conditions, not generic factory labels. Small businesses usually trip up on classification drift, weekend agreements, roster notice and cold-work or overtime-related allowance issues.MA000057Premixed Concrete AwardThe Premixed Concrete Award is mainly about the manufacturing side of the concrete business, not on-site construction. The core compliance issues are separating those two worlds, classifying plant roles correctly and making sure all-purpose allowances and higher duties are carried through payroll.MA000068Seafood Processing AwardThe Seafood Processing Award is for land based seafood processing after harvest, not every seafood business. The main risks are getting the coverage line wrong, mixing up day work and shiftwork rules and missing the higher duties, overtime, cold place and meal allowance triggers that affect payroll.MA000017Textile, Clothing, Footwear and Associated Industries AwardThe Textile, Clothing, Footwear and Associated Industries Award is a broad manufacturing award with real detail around skill levels, part-time documentation, casual limits, payment by results and outwork. Small businesses often go wrong by treating it as a simple garment award or by assuming every employee at a covered site falls under it. The safer approach is to test the work activity, apply the skill structure properly and check the specific exclusions before payroll settings are finalised.MA000071Timber Industry AwardThe Timber Industry Award is wide, but it is structured around sectors that often overlap. For small businesses, the main risks are choosing the wrong sector, missing an express exclusion, using piecework outside its narrow definition, or leaving employees at Level 1 without following the training and extension rules.

Professional and office work

13 awards

MA000079Architects AwardThe Architects Award is a narrow occupational award, not a broad design business award. The main issues are whether the employee is truly working in the occupation of an architect, which Schedule A level applies, whether ordinary hours have stayed within the award spread, whether graduate review and training obligations are being met, and whether travel away from the usual workplace is being reimbursed and recorded properly.MA000019Banking, Finance and Insurance AwardThe Banking, Finance and Insurance Award reaches well beyond bank branches. It can cover lending, insurance, superannuation, broking, debt recovery, data processing, telephone enquiries and transaction processing in covered businesses. The main small business risks are the contract call centre exclusion, getting the Schedule A level right, identifying part-time overtime properly and running annualised wage records and yearly reconciliations when salaries are used.MA000078Book Industry AwardThe Book Industry Award is tightly focused on book editorial work and limited book publicity work. Small publishers and similar businesses should start with coverage, then get the classification, engagement type, hours pattern, overtime treatment and final pay process right.MA000002Clerks - Private Sector AwardThe Clerks - Private Sector Award matters when employees are doing genuine clerical work, but it does not automatically outrank an industry award with clerical classifications. The key risks are award coverage, classification, part-time variations, ordinary hours and higher duties.MA000083Commercial Sales AwardThis award matters most for travelling and territory based sales roles. The practical focus is on getting coverage right, documenting commission and vehicle terms early and managing travel related expenses properly under the award.MA000023Contract Call Centres AwardThis award is driven by the contract call centre business model, not just by employees using phones or email. The main compliance issues are coverage, classification, part-time overtime, roster change notice and consistent payroll treatment across different role streams.MA000067Journalists Published Media AwardThe Journalists Published Media Award is a function-based award for journalism work, not a catch-all award for every role in publishing. The main compliance tasks are separating genuine journalism roles from other publishing functions, setting lawful roster patterns, identifying the limited higher-level exemptions, and applying the award's overtime and allowance rules with precision.MA000116Legal Services AwardThe Legal Services Award is for businesses that provide legal or legal support services, and it is more structured than many small firms assume. The main compliance points are using the right coverage test, documenting part-time arrangements properly, classifying support roles by their principal functions, and handling overtime related expenses cleanly.MA000030Market and Social Research AwardThe Market and Social Research Award is flexible, but it is not informal. Small business risk usually sits in four places: broad coverage being missed, classifications not being updated as duties change, travel time and vehicle reimbursement being merged together, and project-based payment models being used without checking the award conditions.MA000065Professional Employees AwardThis award is a specific professional award, not a general salary award. The main risk areas are getting the right coverage stream, giving a defensible responsibility level, managing extra hours and remote work properly, and dealing with business travel and equipment costs under the award.MA000106Real Estate Industry AwardThe Real Estate Industry Award is mainly about getting the classification and pay model right. For small businesses, the biggest risks are leaving employees in associate level roles after their duties expand, mixing up wages plus commission with commission-only employment, and handling private vehicle use informally.MA000066Surveying AwardThe Surveying Award is mainly about matching professional and technical surveying work to the right classification and then treating travel and project hours properly. Small firms usually run into trouble when project demands overtake the written hours and travel arrangements that the award requires.MA000041Telecommunications Services AwardThe Telecommunications Services Award applies only where the business is genuinely in the telecommunications services industry and the employee fits one of the award classifications. For most employers, the main risk is not the pay table itself. It is assuming the award applies, or does not apply, without checking the business's principal function, the employee's stream, and the overlap rules for other awards, enterprise instruments and the NES.

Public and specialist services

12 awards

MA000153Australian Government Industry Award 2016This award is best read as a general Commonwealth award with important exclusions and agency-specific overlays. The usual mistakes are assuming it covers all government roles, skipping the AG descriptor analysis, running informal flextime, or missing the extra rules that apply when one of the named agency schedules is in play.MA000070Cemetery Industry AwardThis award covers cemetery, crematorium, funeral support and memorial work through a detailed class structure. Businesses should check the class used, manage the RDO system properly, and track specialised allowances such as exhumation work.MA000022Cleaning Services AwardFor contract cleaners, the main legal risks usually sit in the industry coverage call, engagement paperwork, site based minimum shifts, roster cycle changes and broken shift or temperature related allowances. Payroll errors often start with the roster design, not the pay run itself.MA000110Corrections and Detention (Private Sector) AwardThis is a specialist operational award for private corrections, custody and detention services. The hardest issues are usually contractor exclusions, correct treatment of part-time and casual hours, roster design in a 24 hour environment and accurate classification across the award's separate streams.MA000111Fire Fighting Industry AwardThe Fire Fighting Industry Award is narrow and technical. The main small business risks are assuming that all emergency or fire equipment work fits the award, mixing public and private sector rules, and treating progression through firefighter classifications as a simple title change.MA000105Funeral Industry AwardThe Funeral Industry Award is narrow in coverage but demanding in practice. Small business owners most often get into trouble by treating funeral call-ins like ordinary service work, missing the 4 hour casual minimum, overlooking the Grade 1 time limit, or using one weekend rule for funerals, removals and stand-by arrangements.MA000112Local Government Industry AwardThe Local Government Industry Award covers a large range of council work, but it still requires careful attention to exclusions, classification levels and work area specific hour spans. The practical compliance work is documenting part-time and additional hours properly, using the skills based structure consistently, and linking allowances to actual supervisory, first aid and field conditions.MA000104Miscellaneous AwardThe Miscellaneous Award is a fallback award for residual employees who fit its own Level 1 to Level 4 structure and are not covered by another modern award. The key compliance work is ruling out a more specific award first, classifying carefully and documenting regular hours, overtime and expense handling properly.MA000097Pest Control Industry AwardThis award is aimed at field-based pest control work. The main risk areas are choosing the right award, recording part-time patterns properly, rostering within the award framework and picking up unusual allowance triggers.MA000016Security Services Industry AwardThis award is for security services businesses and covered security work, not every employee at a secure location. The main traps are missing exclusions such as cash in transit or detention work, under classifying system heavy roles and overlooking higher duties, broken shifts and pay timing rules.MA000121State Government Agencies AwardThe State Government Agencies Award is mainly a coverage and classification award. The main risks are assuming every State-connected body fits it, ignoring the long exclusion list, skipping the documented position description process, and missing the award's hours, break and reimbursement rules.MA000113Water Industry AwardThe Water Industry Award is mainly an operational utilities award. The main legal challenge is not the pay table. It is deciding whether the work is really within the water industry once the award's detailed exclusions are applied. Small businesses should focus on the exclusions first, then classify employees under Schedule A, document part-time and roster arrangements carefully, and review supervision, first aid and adverse conditions allowances role by role.

Retail, hospitality and recreation

18 awards

MA000092Alpine Resorts AwardThe Alpine Resorts Award is very role-specific and very practical. The real work is classifying resort jobs properly, handling seasonal and casual setups cleanly, and managing rosters, clothing and equipment obligations in a fast-moving alpine operation.MA000080Amusement, Events and Recreation AwardThis award reaches far beyond amusement rides, but it does not apply to every venue-based business. The big compliance risks are usually the first coverage call, over-reliance on job titles instead of grades, weak part-time paperwork, and failing to treat exhibition employees as a separate stream with their own hours and payroll rules.MA000091Broadcasting, Recorded Entertainment and Cinemas AwardThis award covers a wide media and entertainment field, but different sectors operate under different rules. Businesses usually need to identify the correct sector first, then apply the right engagement, roster and allowance provisions for that sector.MA000003Fast Food Industry AwardThis award is built for takeaway and delivery style food businesses, not every food outlet. The practical pressure points are coverage, written part-time patterns, break settings and overtime when hours go past what was actually agreed.MA000094Fitness Industry AwardThis award covers a wide range of gym, aquatic and coaching businesses. The usual trouble spots are off-site admin roles, broken shifts, casual engagement rules for instructors and getting the classification right when staff move beyond entry level supervision.MA000004General Retail Industry AwardThis award is the main retail award for many shopfront businesses, but not for every business that sells goods. The usual risk areas are overlap with fast food or hospitality, under-documented part-time hours and casual use of broad retail job titles.MA000005Hair and Beauty Industry AwardThe Hair and Beauty Industry Award is highly role and qualification driven. For most salons and beauty businesses, the main compliance work is making sure the employee is in the right level, the part-time paperwork is complete, and the roster stays inside the award's ordinary hours rules.MA000009Hospitality Industry (General) AwardThe Hospitality Industry (General) Award is wide, but it is not the catch-all award for every restaurant, venue or accommodation business. The usual trouble spots are the industry boundary, the detailed part-time guaranteed hours rules, and making sure each employee sits in the right stream and grade before rosters, overtime and allowances are applied.MA000081Live Performance AwardThe Live Performance Award is broad in industry reach but highly segmented in operation. The main compliance task is to identify the right stream first, then apply the correct roster, allowance, break and classification rules for that stream rather than borrowing rules from another part of the award.MA000117Mannequins and Models AwardThe Mannequins and Models Award is narrower than many small businesses assume, but it is also more detailed than they expect once it applies. The main risk areas are deciding whether the employee is truly doing mannequin or model work, documenting casual bookings in writing before work starts, managing part-time house employee arrangements properly, checking cancellation consequences before changing a booking, and picking up the wardrobe, transport and living away from home costs that the award can require.MA000109Professional Diving Industry (Recreational) AwardThis is a narrow industry award for recreational diving operators. The main compliance pressure points are choosing the right diving classification, applying the trip based minimum payment rules correctly, and handling overtime and travel allowances as separate issues.MA000013Racing Clubs Events AwardThe Racing Clubs Events Award is built around event work at horse and greyhound racing venues. The main compliance pressure points are choosing the right liquor or non-liquor stream, documenting engagement terms properly, meeting the minimum engagement and roster-change rules, and paying overtime, higher duties and inquiry attendance correctly.MA000014Racing Industry Ground Maintenance AwardThis award is for racecourse grounds and maintenance teams, not the general event workforce. The main compliance issues are choosing the correct Schedule A classification, using the special roster spans and penalty settings properly, and keeping casual night cleaning on its own payroll track.MA000058Registered and Licensed Clubs AwardThis award is a broad clubs award, but it overlaps with several others. The main issues are getting coverage right for the venue, setting part-time guaranteed hours and availability in writing, choosing a lawful full-time roster model and classifying club staff by their actual duties.MA000119Restaurant Industry AwardThis award often applies to standalone restaurant businesses, but the biggest mistakes are assuming coverage without checking the venue setting, using weak part time agreements and missing the roster, overtime, split shift and weekend rules that change the final pay outcome.MA000082Sporting Organisations AwardThe Sporting Organisations Award matters most where a sports body employs both coaching and administrative staff. The main risks are assuming everyone in the organisation fits the award, changing part-time hours informally, treating coaches and administrators as if they share one hours model, and missing travel and late-work obligations.MA000102Travelling Shows AwardThe Travelling Shows Award is built for itinerant show businesses, not every operator at a public event. Small businesses usually need to focus on three things: whether the business is truly a travelling show operation, whether employees have been correctly graded and engaged, and whether long event days are being managed under the award's hours, roster and break rules. Travel and uniform related entitlements also deserve close attention because movement between locations is central to the award.MA000089Vehicle Repair, Services and Retail AwardThe Vehicle Repair, Services and Retail Award is wide and heavily role dependent. For small businesses, the biggest risks are assuming all automotive staff fit one model, applying workshop rules to vehicle sales staff, or missing the award's separate casual and pay structures for fuel retail and other special categories.

Transport, logistics and maritime

20 awards

MA000046Air Pilots AwardThe Air Pilots Award is an occupational award for pilots and helicopter aircrew, not a catch-all aviation award. The big compliance issues are choosing the right award stream, setting the correct engagement model, and rostering within CASA and fatigue limits.MA000047Aircraft Cabin Crew AwardThe Aircraft Cabin Crew Award is driven by cabin crew classification and flying stream. The main traps are using the wrong schedule for duty limits, under-documenting part-time patterns, and missing the distinct casual and allowance rules for cabin crew work.MA000048Airline Operations - Ground Staff AwardThe key to this award is not the title. It is the Schedule A stream and level that actually fits the work. Businesses usually get into trouble by assuming it only covers ramp staff, by moving employees up or down without checking the stream rules, or by running rosters and payroll settings that do not match the classification chosen.MA000049Airport Employees AwardThe Airport Employees Award is about matching roles to the airport classification structure and then applying the correct day worker or shiftworker hours framework. The biggest operational risks are casual setup, long-shift design, missed meal breaks and failing to track technical and ground service allowances.MA000095Car Parking AwardThis award is aimed at commercial parking operations. Businesses usually need to check the line between commercial and incidental parking first, then apply the written part-time, longer day and pay cycle rules correctly.MA000085Dredging Industry AwardThe Dredging Industry Award is a specialised maritime award for dredging and sluicing work. Small businesses usually get into trouble by assuming any vessel work fits it, missing the 4 week cap on casual engagements, using the wrong hours model for fully operational versus not fully operational vessels, or overlooking vessel allowances beyond base pay.MA000093Marine Tourism and Charter Vessels AwardThe Marine Tourism and Charter Vessels Award is operationally detailed. The biggest risks are using the wrong stream for overnight and non-overnight work, failing to give the required written engagement notice, treating overnight charters like ordinary hourly day work, and missing the allowance and onboard support obligations that follow from certificates, itineraries, overtime and overnight accommodation arrangements.MA000050Marine Towage AwardThe Marine Towage Award is operationally demanding because it sits at the intersection of irregular maritime work and strict fatigue controls. The main compliance risks are using the award for the wrong type of maritime activity, missing the separate special voyage regime in harbour towage operations, failing to document part-time and casual duty arrangements properly, and letting break, rest and equipment related entitlements disappear inside busy tug rostering.MA000086Maritime Offshore Oil and Gas AwardThe Maritime Offshore Oil and Gas Award is a specialised offshore vessel award with strict coverage boundaries, only two recognised employment categories in the supplied clauses, and detailed rules on fatigue, breaks and aggregate annual salary structures. The main risks are choosing the wrong maritime award, using the wrong engagement category, and failing to revisit hours or classification settings when operations change.MA000063Passenger Vehicle Transportation AwardThe Passenger Vehicle Transportation Award is about more than a driver's hourly figure. The real compliance work is choosing the right grade, documenting part time arrangements, administering roster notice properly and handling charter waiting time, penalties, higher duties and allowances under the correct clause.MA000051Port Authorities AwardThis award is about structured port operations rather than generic transport work. The hardest issues are identifying the real port operator, matching each role to the correct level and using the award's formal rules for weekend work, averaging and after-hours contact.MA000052Ports, Harbours and Enclosed Water Vessels AwardThis award is narrow but important. The key risk areas are choosing the wrong maritime award, missing the fatigue and break rules, mishandling casual payment timing and overlooking operational allowances tied to relieving, towing or certificate use.MA000015Rail Industry AwardThis award has a narrow and technical coverage clause. The main legal and payroll risks are getting the rail transport operator test right, working through the exclusion list, using the correct classification stream and managing rosters with consultation and fatigue in mind.MA000039Road Transport (Long Distance Operations) AwardThis award is built for qualifying long distance road transport work, not every trucking job. The main risks are assuming every run counts as long distance, overlooking fatigue and release from duty rules, and forgetting that temporary local duties may move under a different award for that work.MA000038Road Transport and Distribution AwardThis award covers a wide range of road transport and distribution work, from driving to warehouse and distribution facility roles. The main risks are choosing the wrong classification stream, missing the boundary with long distance work and letting ordinary hours or RDO arrangements drift outside the award rules.MA000122Seagoing Industry AwardThe Seagoing Industry Award is about vessel operations that proceed to sea, not all maritime work. The key issues are drawing the coverage boundary correctly, building rosters around rest hour rules and paying the vessel specific allowances that attach to tanker and cargo duties.MA000053Stevedoring Industry AwardThe Stevedoring Industry Award is highly operational. The main compliance risks are choosing the wrong employment category, using grades loosely, and missing how shift patterns, double headers and specialist functions change pay treatment.MA000084Storage Services and Wholesale AwardThe Storage Services and Wholesale Award is usually about three things: whether the right award has been chosen at all, whether storeworkers have been graded properly, and whether roster flexibility has been used without the written controls the award requires.MA000042Transport (Cash in Transit) AwardThe Transport Cash in Transit Award is highly specialised. The main compliance risk is assuming it applies to any security employee who handles valuables. It does not. Employers need to confirm genuine cash in transit coverage, classify crew roles correctly, use the right roster model and apply the award's industry specific allowances carefully, while still checking the NES and any enterprise instrument overlap.MA000043Waste Management AwardThe Waste Management Award reaches far more than collection runs. It covers a broad range of waste handling, recycling, treatment and disposal operations. For small businesses, the main risks are misclassifying site based roles, setting up short or early shifts without the right engagement terms, and overlooking the all purpose industry allowance. The safest approach is to test the site function, classify each role carefully and then build roster and overtime settings around the award's own methods.