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.
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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