Aged Care Award
Three-stream award covering general aged-care work (cleaning, laundry, food services, personal care), the senior-food-services premium tier (single most senior food services employee at a facility), and the new direct-care stream introduced 1 January 2025 covering personal-care workers and ex-Nurses-Award AINs translated into the award. Standard rate is General Level 6.
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: General L1-L7, Senior Food Services L4-L7, and Direct Care L1-L6 (the 1 Jan 2025 PR779150 addition).
- Cl. 14.4-14.6 apprentice rates anchored to General L4.
- Allowances: per-shift / per-week uniform and laundry, leading-hand (four tiers, all-purpose), meal-OT bands, nauseous work, chef tool, vehicle, sleepover (cl. 22.9 - 5.2% of standard rate per night, $62.35).
- Penalty rates with the distinctive Sunday at 175% (not 200%), and Sat / Sun rates substituting for shift premiums per cl. 23.1.
- Casual OT rates per cl. 25.1(c) including the 25% loading: Mon-Fri 187.5% / 250%, Sat / Sun 250%, PH 312.5%.
- Recall to work 4-hour minimum (cl. 25.1(e)), fail-to-rest 200% (cl. 25.1(d)(ii)) and broken-shift-over-12-hours = double time (cl. 22.8(d)).
Known limitations
No outstanding gaps at this revision - re-verify on the next Fair Work pay-guide release.
Setup & special instructions
- Sunday is paid at 175% (time and three-quarters) for FT/PT, NOT 200%. Casual Sunday is 200%.
- Sat / Sun rates SUBSTITUTE for shift premiums (cl. 23.1) - they don't stack. OT rates also substitute (cl. 25.1(a)(ii)).
- Shift loadings use COMMENCE-time bands (cl. 26.1), not finish-time. PT employees only get a loading if the shift commences before 6am OR finishes after 6pm.
- The Senior Food Services tier (cl. 14.2) applies only to the single most senior food services employee at a facility / site - don't assign it to multiple employees.
- Direct Care stream is new from 1 Jan 2025 - Schedule I provides translation arrangements for employees classified before that date and ex-Nurses-Award AINs.
- • Aged care
- • Personal care
- • Nursing assistants
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 aged care 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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