Miscellaneous Award
Default-coverage award for employees not covered by an industry-specific or occupational award. Deliberately flat structure - no sectors, no engagement subtypes, no shift-loading regime - so the resolver setup is simpler than a construction or manufacturing award.
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
- Full classification + rate set per cl. 14.1.
- All allowances per cl. 18.
- Penalty rates including weekend / public holiday / overtime.
- Apprentice rates (4-year + adult).
- Junior rates by age band.
- Mon-Fri-outside-of-spread 120% loading (the only out-of-spread rule the award has).
Known limitations
- Junior rates: the under-16 rate ($8.94/hr) is a different rate to the 16-year rate ($11.48/hr), but the rate-type enum currently collapses them. The under-16 rate is preserved in AwardConfiguration (junior_under_16_pct, junior_under_16_hourly) and applied via configuration lookup - verify with payroll if the under-16 rate matters for any of your employees.
- Minimum engagement and minimum rest period are silent in the award text - the platform applies the documented seeder defaults: full-time 7.6 / part-time 3 / casual 2 hours minimum engagement; 10-hour rest period (NES default).
Setup & special instructions
- Use Miscellaneous only when no industry-specific or occupational award covers the employee - it's the fallback award.
- There are no sectors, engagement subtypes or shift-loading regimes - the only out-of-spread rule is the 120% Mon-Fri-outside loading.
- • Default coverage
- • Cross-industry employees
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 miscellaneous 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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