Gardening and Landscaping Services Award
Covers gardening, lawn-mowing, garden maintenance, irrigation installation / maintenance, soft landscaping (planting, lawn-laying) and minor hard-landscaping (edging, paving). Excludes employees covered by Building and Construction (MA000020), Horticulture (MA000028), Joinery (MA000029), Local Government (MA000112), Nursery (MA000033), Pastoral (MA000035) or Plumbing (MA000036). 6 classifications, single sector, standard rate Level 4 (Tradesperson). Trades-based award with apprentices.
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 cl. 15.1 classifications at the July 2025 figures.
- Junior rates: under-18 (70%), 18 (80%), 19 (90%), 20+ adult.
- 4-year apprentice rates anchored to Level 4: pre-2014 (47.5 / 60 / 75 / 95%) and post-2014 with Y12 split.
- Casual loading 25% (cl. 11.2(a)(ii)) with 3-hour minimum engagement.
- All-purposes definition per cl. 17.2(a) - payment included in rate of pay when calculating penalties, loadings and annual leave.
Known limitations
No outstanding gaps at this revision - re-verify on the next Fair Work pay-guide release.
Setup & special instructions
- This award sits in the gap left by several other industry awards - confirm coverage doesn't fall under MA000020 / MA000028 / MA000029 / MA000033 / MA000035 / MA000036 / MA000112 before assigning.
- Adult apprentices (21+ at commencement) per cl. 2 definition - separate from regular adult-apprentice anchoring.
- • Gardening
- • Landscaping
- • Lawn-mowing
- • Irrigation
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 gardening & landscaping 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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