Clerks - Private Sector Award
Covers private-sector clerical and administrative employees across Levels 1-5, plus the two call-centre classifications (Principal Customer Contact Specialist and Technical Associate). Junior rates, all nine cl. 19 allowances, the two-tier Mon-Sat overtime structure and the shiftworker fail-to-rest 200% rule are all wired through.
Fully built. Rates, allowances, penalties and any required apprentice / junior rates are all wired to the rate resolver and have been verified against the consolidated award text and the latest pay guide.
Official Fair Work rates. This award’s minimum pay rates are synced directly from the Fair Work Commission’s Modern Awards Pay Database and updated automatically when the Commission changes them - including the annual wage review - so payroll always uses the current legal minimums without a manual update.
What's built
- All 10 cl. 16.1 classifications including the LEVEL_2_Y1 standard rate and both call-centre tiers.
- Junior rates from under-16 (45%) through 20-year-old (90%), with the under-16 / 16-year split encoded via the year-12 marker.
- All cl. 19 allowances - first aid, higher duties, FT and PT laundry, two meal-OT bands, vehicle (car / motorcycle), living-away-from-home and shift transport.
- Tiered overtime (cl. 21) and shift overtime (cl. 28) - first 2 / 3 hours at 150%, after that at 200%, with Sunday / public holiday at 200% / 250%.
- Cl. 22.4 / 30.5 fail-to-rest 200% rows seeded for both non-shift and shift cases.
- Cl. 24 weekend / public holiday penalties and cl. 31 shiftworker afternoon / night / permanent-night loadings.
Known limitations
- Sunday / public holiday minimum-payment floors (cl. 21.4, 24.3(c), 24.4(d), 28.3) are documented as configuration but not yet enforced as separate data - the resolver applies the multiplier; the 3 / 4-hour minimum payment must be manually checked on short shifts.
- Cl. 22.4 / 30.5 fail-to-rest is a conditional rule (predicate is rest gap < 10 / 8 hours) - the row is seeded, but payroll must trigger it manually until the resolver gains conditional-trigger evaluation.
Setup & special instructions
- Shift definitions are stored using start / end windows that approximate the cl. 25 finish-time boundaries - minor divergence from the source where shifts straddle the window edges.
- Cl. 32.2 additional NES week of leave for shiftworkers regularly rostered on Sundays / public holidays in 24/7 operations is not differentiated by employment type in the seeded data - confirm manually before processing leave for those employees.
- • Clerical
- • Administration
- • Call centres
- • Private sector
The consolidated award text is the authoritative source. Always confirm specific obligations against the award itself - Mployr's implementation status reflects what we've seeded; it does not replace legal advice.
Want to see this award running on your data?
We can demo a pay run on the clerks private sector award using sample employees in a sandbox tenant - including any of the special-instruction steps above so you can see exactly what your team's day-to-day looks like.
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