Rail Industry Award
Covers rail transport operators throughout Australia - rail infrastructure managers, rolling stock managers and their employees - to the exclusion of any other modern award. Three classification streams (CAP - Clerical Administrative & Professional, OP - Operations, TCI - Technical and Civil Infrastructure) with their own rate tables. Standard rate is Level 4 Rail Worker (TCI). Junior rates use a 3-band structure (under 17 / 17 / 18+ adult).
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 three streams seeded as sectors with stream-prefixed classification codes - CAP Levels 1-9, OP Levels 1-6, TCI Levels 1-7.
- Junior rates anchored to L1 of each stream (under 17 at 75%, 17 at 85%, 18+ falls through to adult).
- Apprentice rates anchored to TCI Level 4 or OP Level 3 - pre-2014 (4-year, no Y12 split) and post-2014 (4-year, with Y12 split), plus adult-apprentice rules.
- Casual weekend rates loading-inclusive at 175% / 225% (cl. 21.4) - the 25% casual loading is already baked in.
- Foundry allowance scoped to TCI sector only.
- Right-to-disconnect carve-out (cl. 13A.4) - contact while paying on-call allowance is permitted.
Known limitations
No outstanding gaps at this revision - re-verify on the next Fair Work pay-guide release.
Setup & special instructions
- Each employee must be assigned a stream - CAP, OP, or TCI - to drive the right rate table and any sector-scoped allowances.
- Operations employees don't have a published day-worker span (Operations is shift-based by design); use shift definitions rather than the CAP / TCI 6am-6.30pm spans.
- Annual salary equivalents are calculated as weekly × 313 / 6 (cl. 15.1 footnote) - academic-year style, not the standard 52 weeks.
- • Rail transport
- • Rail infrastructure
- • Rolling stock
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 rail industry 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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