Building and Construction General On-site Award
Fully wired - rates, sector-scoped allowances, penalties, apprentice rates, daily-hire follow-the-job loading and the carpenter-diver divisor are all running through the resolver. This is the most exhaustively-tested award in the platform.
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 12 unloaded base rates from cl. 19.1(a) - CW/ECW 1 (sub-levels a/b/c/d) through ECW 9.
- Sector-scoped industry allowance (cl. 22.1) - different rates for general residential, general non-residential, civil and metal-engineering work, summed into the ordinary hourly rate.
- Per-trade tool allowance (cl. 21.1(a)) - five trade-group rows from carpenter through painter.
- Penalty rates including the Saturday-after-Good-Friday 250% (cl. 30.1(c)) and weekend / public holiday loadings.
- Sector-specific shift loadings - general / metal-engineering (cl. 17.1) and civil (cl. 17.2), including the 130% permanent-night and 150% non-continuous afternoon/night cases.
- Casual loading (cl. 12.4) at 25%, applied arithmetically with overtime / weekend / PH multipliers per cl. 12.5.
- Full apprentice rate grid - 4-year, 3-year, Electrotechnology, and adult - with year-12-completed split where the award differentiates.
- Daily-hire follow-the-job loading (cl. 19.3(a)) - automatically applied via the 52/50.4 weekly factor.
- Carpenter-diver allowance (cl. 19.10) - when assigned, the resolver swaps to the cl. 19.3(a)(iii) divisor of 31.
- Meal allowance (cl. 21.2) at $19.00/occurrence when overtime extends ≥1.5 hours past ordinary finishing time.
Known limitations
No outstanding gaps at this revision - re-verify on the next Fair Work pay-guide release.
Setup & special instructions
- Construction employees MUST be assigned a sector before pay run: general (residential or non-residential), civil, or metal-engineering. The sector drives which industry allowance applies.
- Set the engagement type - daily-hire vs weekly-hire - on each employee. Daily-hire automatically applies the cl. 19.3(a) follow-the-job factor (rates are loaded via 52/50.4).
- Per-employee role flags drive which all-purpose allowances are summed into the hourly rate. Whitelist the codes (e.g. INDUSTRY_CIVIL, TOOL_CARPENTER_GROUP) on the employee's pay settings.
- Carpenter-divers: add the CARPENTER_DIVER_RATE allowance code to swap divisor 31 for 38 (cl. 19.3(a)(iii)). Stacks with daily-hire.
- Residential industry allowance is restricted to single/dual-occupancy non-multistorey work per cl. 22.2(b) - don't apply it to multistorey residential builds.
- • Construction
- • Civil works
- • Renovation
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.
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