Educational Services (Post-Secondary Education) Award
Covers the post-secondary educational services industry - VET teaching to AQF, ELICOS / TESOL, LOTE, English literacy / numeracy, migrant English, community / adult education, undergraduate / postgraduate teaching outside universities, foundation / bridging programmes, and student union employees. Three classification streams: Academic Teachers (Schedule A), Teachers and Tutor / Instructors (Schedule B) and General Staff (Schedule C). Standard rate is General Staff Level 2.1.
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 17 General Staff sub-pay-points across Levels 1-7 plus the Academic Teachers and Teachers / Tutor-Instructors classifications.
- Junior rates: 6 bands at 45 / 50 / 60 / 70 / 80 / 90% per cl. 16.3, with proper under-16 rate row (50%) using the new junior_under_16 enum.
- Hours-of-work setup with the academic-teacher / teacher-tutor work-time multipliers (e.g. 1h lecture delivery = 3h work; 1h tutorial delivery = 3h work; 1h repeat within 28 days = 2h work).
- Sessional employment for teaching staff (cl. 12.1) - engaged 4-40 weeks/year on FT or PT basis with pro-rata pay / conditions; continuous service preserved if gap ≤ 8 weeks.
- Six different spans of ordinary hours by operational group, plus the meal-skip 200% rate (cl. 15.3(d)).
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 - academic_teachers, teachers_tutors or general_staff - to drive the right rate scale and span of hours.
- Excludes secondary schools, universities (covered by Higher Education Industry awards MA000006 / MA000007) and labour-market-assistance employers.
- Annualised hours for academic teachers and teachers / tutor-instructors (up to 12 months) - when annualised, breaks (cl. 15) and overtime (cl. 20) DO NOT apply per cl. 14.4.
- Casual minimum engagement differs by stream: 3h for general staff, 2h for teachers / tutor-instructors.
- • Post-secondary education
- • VET
- • ELICOS / TESOL
- • Adult education
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 post-secondary education 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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