If you’re an employer, and you pay your employees more than the award, you may be asking whether you have to increase pay or entitlements again.
Modern awards deal with minimum obligations only. They do not require employers to increase or maintain over-award payments already being made.
Most modern awards provide that, if you are making over-award payments, monetary obligations in the modern award may be absorbed into those over-award payments.
However, employers may need to maintain an over-award payment or to allocate payments in a particular way because of their employment contracts with employees. Employers need to consider those employment contracts on a case-by-case basis.