Cotton Ginning Award
Industry award covering cotton ginnery operators throughout Australia. 6 classifications (CG1 first-6-mo / CG1 after-6-mo / CG2 standard / CG3 / CG4 / CG5). Distinctive features include all-purpose disabilities + leading-hand allowances inflating ordinary hourly rate, 3-tier leading hand band by team size, special contingency 4-row Moura/Cecil-Plains/Emerald/St-George × FT/Seasonal, seasonal employment as fourth pay condition, CG1 6-month progression, and the night-loading vs annual-leave-loading mutex (cl 23.2(b)).
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 6 classifications (CG1 first-6-mo / CG1 after-6-mo / CG2 standard / CG3 / CG4 / CG5) at 1 July 2025 figures - zero drift on any figure.
- 11 allowances including all-purpose disabilities + leading-hand 3-tier band (D1/D2).
- 9 penalty rows including special contingency 4-row Moura/Cecil-Plains/Emerald/St-George × FT/Seasonal split (D3).
- 4 pay conditions: Full-Time / Part-Time / Casual / Seasonal (D4).
- Cl 11.1 distinctive casual interaction rules: `casual_loading_not_on_overtime=true` (cl 11.1(b)), `casual_penalty_substitutes_loading=true` (cl 11.1(c) - penalty + loading = penalty only), `casual_loadings_greatest_only=true` (cl 11.1(d)).
- Cl 23.2(b) leave loading INCLUDES all-purpose allowances (leading hand + disabilities) AND substitutes night loading (D6 mechanism).
- Cl 14A right to disconnect, cl 28A workplace delegates, cl 32 termination tiers + cl 32.2 job search, cl 33 redundancy with pay-difference and 1-day/wk job search.
- ~95 configuration entries.
Known limitations
- Special contingency allowances (D3) require sector_code routing on AwardPenalty rows for the 4 location × 2 employment-type combinations.
- All-purpose allowance baked-in (D1) requires resolver to add disabilities + leading-hand to base hourly BEFORE applying penalty/OT multipliers.
- Seasonal employment (D4) pro-rata FT benefits - requires runtime classification check to grant correct entitlement basis.
Setup & special instructions
- Standard rate basis = CG2 weekly (verify against current pay guide).
- Casual interaction rules per cl 11.1 are DISTINCTIVE - penalties SUBSTITUTE for casual loading rather than stack; greatest applicable loading only.
- Leave loading (cl 23.2(b)) INCLUDES all-purpose allowances AND substitutes night loading.
- Cl 14A right to disconnect - clause number is 14A (NOT 11A or 13A).
- Cl 16.4 minimum 10-hour rest period IS GENUINE for this award (distinct from MA000064/MA000109 where this was fabricated).
- • Cotton ginning
- • Cotton processing
- • Cotton ginnery
- • Cotton bale handling
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 cotton ginning 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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