Hospitality Industry (General) Award
Covers hotels, motels, resorts, restaurants, cafes, catering, bars and clubs. 7 classifications (Introductory + L1-L6, standard rate Level 4) with cooks split across Levels 1-6 by trade qualification. Two junior tables (general vs office), junior liquor-service workers paid as adults, and two all-purpose allowances (fork-lift driver and tiered airport-catering supervisory).
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 7 cl. 18.1 classifications at the corrected July 2025 figures.
- General junior table (cl. 18.4(a)) from under-17 (50%) through 20-year-old (100%), with the distinctive 17-year split via the year-12 marker.
- Office junior table (cl. 18.4(b)) and the cl. 13.5 liquor-service-as-adult override captured as configuration.
- Cooking-trade (cl. 19.1) and waiting-trade (cl. 19.2) apprentice grids, both time-based and competency-based, plus adult-apprentice floor rules per cl. 19.5.
- All cl. 26 allowances - fork-lift (all-purpose), the airport catering supervisory tiers, meal-OT, and the rest of the cl. 26 set.
- Penalty rates including the cl. 29.2 Mon-Fri after-hours 100% + dollar-per-hour supplements (not pure multipliers).
- Higher-duties pro-rata / whole-day rule with the F&B grade 2 / 3 exclusion (cl. 22).
Known limitations
- Casino gaming stream cl. 18.3 Table 4 is documented but not yet seeded as a separate sector - schema lacks the dimension.
- Apprentice variant enum reuses 'pre_2014' for waiting-trade apprentices as a schema workaround until a 'waiting' variant is migrated in.
Setup & special instructions
- Junior liquor-service workers are paid AS ADULTS (cl. 13.5) at the classification rate for the work performed - not at the junior percentage. Make sure the override is set on those employees.
- Higher duties EXCLUDES food and beverage attendants grade 2 or 3 - those classifications cannot claim higher duties under cl. 22.
- Mon-Fri non-shift after-hours work is paid at 100% + a dollar-per-hour supplement (cl. 29.2 Table 14), not a multiplier - confirm your payroll engine handles the supplement correctly.
- Fork-lift driver allowance is all-purpose (folds into the ordinary hourly rate); the cl. 26.3(b) pre-2020 daily form is on-occurrence only.
- • Hospitality
- • Hotels
- • Restaurants
- • Catering
- • Bars and clubs
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 hospitality 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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