Electrical Power Industry Award
Covers the electrical power industry — generation, transmission, distribution and retail supply of electrical power, plus the mining / processing of brown coal for power generation, plus retail of gas and other utilities by an EPI employer, plus temporary labour at EPI sites. Excludes contractors covered by MA000025, MA000020 and MA000032. 26 stream-prefixed classifications across Pay Levels 1-11 and four streams (Technical, Administrative, Professional / Managerial / Specialist, Operations). Standard rate is Pay Level 3.
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 26 cl. 15.1 classifications across the four streams at the July 2025 figures.
- 37.5-hour week (NOT 38). Hourly = weekly / 37.5.
- Three engagement types modelled as sub-levels: day worker (Mon-Fri 7am-6pm), non-continuous shiftworker, continuous shiftworker (24/7). Each classification has all three sub-levels seeded.
- Junior rates: under-19 (73%), 19 (83%), 20 (90%) — anchored to standard rate.
- Apprentice rates anchored to standard rate per cl. 15.2(b); adult-apprentice 'highest of N%, NMW, or Pay Level 1' rule.
- Two-tier availability allowance ($192.44 / $277.97) per cl. 13.5 — funds availability rostering rather than 'on-call' per typical awards.
- Recall (cl. 13.3) 3-hour minimum AND Call-out (cl. 13.4) 2-hour minimum at OT, paid leaving home to returning home — two distinct constructs.
- Continuous shiftworkers Mon-Sat OT = flat 200% from minute 1 (cl. 19.1). Day workers and non-continuous shiftworkers get the conventional 150% / 200% split.
- Personal / carer's leave 12 days / yr (cl. 22.2), supplementing NES 10 days. Annual leave loading is the GREATER OF 17.5% or shift / weekend penalties (cl. 21.3(b)).
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 (Technical, Administrative, Professional, or Operations) and an engagement type (day_worker, non_continuous_shiftworker, or continuous_shiftworker).
- Casual minimum engagement is 3 hours, NOT 2 (cl. 11.1).
- Continuous shiftworkers have flat 200% Mon-Sat OT — don't apply the 150% first-N-hours pattern.
- Annual leave is 4 weeks (5 for NES shiftworker) plus a bonus week per year of continuous availability rostering (cl. 13.5(c)).
- There are no asbestos, heights, confined-spaces, switchboard or storm-restoration allowances. The industry-specific allowances are availability, first-aid, power station, open-cut brown coal mine, briquette factory, coal handling and transmission.
- • Electrical power
- • Power generation
- • Power transmission
- • Brown coal
- • Utilities
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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We can demo a pay run on the electrical power industry 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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