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Finding the right pay

• Phasing in modern awards pay rates
  • Can modern awards reduce my pay?
• Pay rate updates

PayCheck Plus

• How does PayCheck Plus work?
• Who can use PayCheck Plus?
• Pay rate updates
• Calculating penalty rates
  • Pair your own penalties
• Calculating wages per shift
• Saving your session
• Exporting results and printing
• Building & construction industry loadings

Superannuation

Pay Rates Calculator

• Who can use Pay Rates Calculator?
• How do I use Pay Rates Calculator?
• Pay rate updates

Pay & Conditions Guides

• Who can use a Pay & Conditions Guide?
• Pay rate updates

National minimum wage

• 2012 Annual wage review FAQs
• 2011 Annual wage review FAQs

Pay slips

• Payment summaries

Pay, penalty rates, overtime & allowances

Classification translation principles

Apprentice & trainee pay

• Trainee wage calculators

Student placements & unpaid work

• Unpaid work research report
• Unpaid trials
• Information for workers
• Information for employers
• Volunteering
• Student placements, work experience & internships

Permitted deductions

Pay scale summaries 2006-09

• What's a pay scale?
• Who do pay scales cover?
• Find pay scale summaries
  • Pay scale summaries 2008
  • Pay scale summaries 2007
  • Pay scale summaries 2006

How to find an award

Award Finder

• How do I search with Award Finder?
• Tips for using Award Finder
• Pay rate updates

Modern awards

• Who's covered by a modern award?
• What's in a modern award?
• How do modern awards affect agreements?
• Phasing in modern award pay rates
• Employees who were previously award-free
• What if I'm paying more than the award?

Pre-modern awards

A-Z modern awards list

Award codes explained

State award employers’ transition to modern awards

• Division 2B wage calculation worksheet
  • How to use the worksheet
  • What if this worksheet doesn’t apply to me?
• What do I need to do?
• Other transitional provisions

Fair Work Information Statement

National Employment Standards (NES)

• What are the 10 NES entitlements?
• Who is affected
• How the NES work
• What applied before the NES?

Employers

• Managing your employees
• New employers
  • Tips for hiring mature-age workers
• Things every employer should know
  • Resources for employers
  • Things to avoid
• Resolving issues
• Key contacts
• Record-keeping
  • Pay slips
  • Time & wage records

Employees

• Things every employee should know
• Workplace practices to watch out for

Casual, full-time and part-time work

• Casual employees

Discrimination

• Types of discrimination
• When isn't it discrimination?
• Bullying and harassment
• Information for workers
  • Before making a complaint
  • Where else to go for help
• Employers
  • How we can help
  • Best practice tips

Hours of work

Flexible working arrangements

• Accepting or refusing a request

When businesses change owners

• What happens to entitlements?

Temporary closures

Independent contractors

• Tips & tools for contractors
• Contractor or employee?
  • Employers and sham contracting
  • Independent contracting case studies
  • Independent contracting quiz
• Independent Contractors Act

Agreements

• Employers bargaining together
  • Guidance for making an application
  • What happens next?
• Help with making agreements
• Types of agreements
• How to make agreements
• Bargaining in good faith
• Agreement search

Apprentices & trainees

• Apprentice entitlements
• Trainee entitlements
• Starting an apprenticeship or traineeship
• Part-time & school-based arrangements
• When qualified
• Tips for new apprentices & trainees
• Tips for employers
• Useful contacts
• Apprentice & trainee FAQs
• Resources for schools

Industrial action

• Alternatives to industrial action
• Protected, unprotected & unlawful action
• Starting industrial action
• Taking part in industrial action
• Ending or suspending industrial action
• Frequently asked questions

Young workers

• What age can I start work?
• Getting paid
• Your workplace rights & conditions
• Things to be careful of
• Paying young workers - tips for employers

Piece rates and commission

• Piece rates
• Commission

Employees with disability

• Modern awards & employees with a disability
• Special national minimum wage for employees with disability
• Australian Disability Enterprises

International students

• Before you start looking for work
• Finding out about your entitlements
• Is your job full-time, part-time or casual?
• Your workplace rights
• Things to be careful of
• How we can help you

Shift workers

Outworkers

• Outworkers & award conditions
• Outworkers & enterprise agreement conditions
• Outworkers in the clothing, textile and footwear industry

Unions

• Membership
• Union visits & meetings
• Unions in the workplace
• Bargaining with unions
• Entering a textile, clothing or footwear industry workplace

General protections

• Workplace rights
• What are workers protected from?

Seasonal Worker Program

• Minimum wages and conditions
• Piece rates
• Employers
• Employees
• Awards

Working parents

• Balancing work & family

National Employment Standards (NES)

• What are the 10 NES entitlements?
• Who is affected?
• How the NES works
• What applied before the NES?

Leave Calculator

• How do I use the Leave Calculator?
• Who can use the Leave Calculator?
• How does the Leave Calculator work?

Public holidays

• What employees get
• List of 2013 public holidays
• List of 2011 public holidays
• List of 2012 public holidays
• Requesting and refusing to work on public holidays
• Substitute & additional public holidays
  • Payment for a substituted public holiday
  • Payment for an additional public holiday
• Agreeing to a different public holiday date
• Public holidays & annual leave
• Part-day public holidays
• Trading hours on public holidays
• Public holidays FAQs

Annual leave

• How much annual leave does an employee get?
• How much is the employee paid?
• Calculating annual leave
• Taking annual leave
• Directing an employee to take annual leave
• Cashing out annual leave
• Is accrued annual leave paid out on transfer of employment?
• Up to & including 31 December 2009

Sick leave

Leave accrual

Personal, carer's and compassionate leave

• How much leave does an employee get?
• Notice & evidence
• How much is the employee paid?
• Calculating leave
• Can leave be cashed out?
• Unpaid carer's leave
• Compassionate leave
• Up to and including 31 December 2009

Parental leave

• Ending employment during parental leave
• When are employees entitled to parental leave?
  • Pre-adoption leave
• Paid parental leave
• How does an employee apply for parental leave?
• Can parents take leave at the same time?
• Other leave and parental leave
• Keeping in touch during leave
• Changing or extending parental leave
• Directing an employee to take leave
• Pregnant employees
• Returning to work
• Replacement employees
• Special maternity leave
• Still birth or infant death

Long service leave

• Long service leave & the National Employment Standards
• Payment of long service leave upon termination
• Record-keeping information
• Where to go for more information

Community service leave

• Who must service be with?
• How much leave is an employee entitled to?
• Notice and evidence
• Is community service leave paid?

Termination of employment

Unfair dismissal

• When is dismissal unfair?
• Small Business Fair Dismissal Code
• Applying for unfair dismissal
• What happens next?

Unlawful termination

• What's unlawful termination?
• Help from the Fair Work Commission
• Help from the Fair Work Ombudsman

Redundancy

• What redundancy might be payable?
• When redundancy is not payable
• Redundancy & small business
  • Exceptions
• How much redundancy pay?
• Preserved redundancy provisions
• Genuine redundancy or unfair dismissal
• When it's not genuine redundancy
• Taking action about your dismissal
• When the employer goes into liquidation or becomes bankrupt
• Voluntary administration

Small Business Fair Dismissal Code

• The Code
• Application

Notice periods

• Who doesn't get notice of termination?
• How is notice given?
• What notice should you give if you resign?
• Can workplace instruments give more notice?
• Can the notice be paid out?
• Serious misconduct

Final pay

Can I make a complaint?

• Pay & conditions
• Coercion & workplace rights
• Threats from an employer
• Discrimination

How to make a complaint

• Step by step: making a complaint
• Documents you may need

Someone’s made a complaint about my business

The complaints process

• Before mediation
• Mediation
• After mediation
• Investigations
• Enforcement options
  • Compliance notices
  • Penalty infringement notices
  • Enforceable undertakings
  • Court ordered penalties
• Requesting a review
• Privacy
• Withdrawing a complaint
• Unclaimed money

Award Finder

• How do I search with Award Finder?
• What else does Award Finder do?

Leave Calculator

• How do I use the Leave Calculator?
• Who can use the Leave Calculator?
• How does the Leave Calculator work?

PayCheck Plus

• Pay rate updates
• Saving your session
• How does PayCheck Plus work?
• Calculating penalty rates
  • Pair your own penalties
• Calculating wages per shift
• Building & construction industry loadings
• Exporting and printing results

Pay Rates Calculator

• How do I use Pay Rates Calculator?
• Who can use Pay Rates Calculator?

Best Practice Guides

• Parental leave
• Work & family
• Consultation & cooperation in the workplace
• Use of individual flexibility arrangements
• A guide for young workers
• An employer's guide to employing young workers
• Gender pay equity
• Small business & the Fair Work Act
• Workplace privacy
• Managing underperformance
• Effective dispute resolution
• Improving workplace productivity through bargaining

Community presentations

Checklists

Email updates

Fact Sheets

• About us
  • About the Fair Work Ombudsman fact sheet
  • Freedom of Information Policy fact sheet
  • Infringement notices fact sheet
  • Powers of Fair Work Inspectors fact sheet
  • Privacy rights fact sheet
• Conditions of employment
  • Minimum wages fact sheet
  • Modern awards fact sheet
  • Termination of employment fact sheet
  • Workplace laws go national fact sheet
• Employer obligations
  • Employee records and pay slips fact sheet
  • Internships, Vocational Placements & Unpaid Work fact sheet
  • Right of entry fact sheet
  • Transfer of business fact sheet
  • Understanding on-hire employee services fact sheet
  • Defence Reservists: rights and responsibilities at work fact sheet
• National Employment Standards
• Workplace rights
  • Employment entitlements during natural disasters or emergencies fact sheet
  • Enterprise bargaining fact sheet
  • Foreign workers rights fact sheet
  • General workplace protections fact sheet
  • Independent contractors & employees fact sheet
  • Industrial action fact sheet
  • International students fact sheet
  • Maritime Industry fact sheet
  • Unlawful workplace discrimination fact sheet
  • DIAC: 457 Visa Holders - Your rights at work
  • Uniforms & clothing in the retail industry

Glossary

Search for unpaid wages

• What happens to unclaimed wages?
• How will we contact you about unclaimed wages?

Templates

• Industry specific
• Pay slips and record-keeping
• Employing staff
• Managing leave and hours of work
• Managing and ending employment

Useful links

• Registered organisations

Webinars

• Understanding your rights and responsibilities under the Fair Work Act
• National Vehicle Campaign webinar FAQs
• National Clerical Workers Campaign Webinar FAQs
• Structural Metal webinar FAQs
• Hospitality webinar
• Hair and Beauty webinar
• National Pharmacy Industry Campaign webinar

Accommodation, liquor & gaming

• Businesses covered by the Hospitality Award
• Classifications & categories
  • Classifications
  • Employment categories
  • Part-time employee entitlements
  • Casual employee entitlements
  • Junior employees
  • Part-time employee hours
• Pay
  • Allowances
  • Higher duties
  • Overtime
  • Paying wages
  • Deductions
  • Annual salaries
  • Annual salaries for managers
  • Superannuation
  • Pay and Conditions Guides
  • Penalty rates
  • Wages & penalty rates in South Australia
• Uniforms & tools
• Hours of work, rosters & breaks
  • Hours of work
  • Breaks
  • Rosters
  • Organising rosters
  • Make-up time
  • Rostered days off
• Leave
  • Questions about annual leave
  • Payment for annual leave
• Apprenticeships & traineeships
  • Pay & entitlements
  • Hospitality qualifications
• Termination & redundancy
  • Notice of termination

Building & construction

• Apprenticeships & traineeships
  • Pay & allowances
  • Overtime & shiftwork
  • Adult apprentices
• Employment categories
  • Daily hire employees
  • Weekly hire employees
  • Casual employees
• Hours & RDOs
  • RDOs
  • Shiftwork
• Leave
  • Payment for annual leave
  • Personal, carer's and compassionate leave
  • Questions about annual leave
• Pay & allowances
  • Daily hire & weekly hire pay rates
  • Casual pay rates
  • Allowances
  • Overtime
  • Paying wages
  • Deductions
• Termination & redundancy
  • Redundancy
• Travel
  • Distant work

Cleaning

• What types of businesses are covered by the Cleaning Award?
• Classifications and categories
  • Classifications
  • Employment categories
  • Part-time employee entitlements
  • How do I hire a part-time employee?
  • Casual employee entitlements
  • Minimum hours of work for part-time and casual employees
• Pay
  • Wages & penalty rates
  • Allowances
  • Overtime
  • Paying wages
  • Deductions
• Hours of work, rosters & breaks
  • Hours of work
  • Shiftwork
  • Breaks
  • Rosters
• Leave
  • Payment for annual leave & annual leave loading
  • Additional leave for shift workers
  • Questions about annual leave
• Changing contracts redundancy & termination
  • Notice of termination
  • Redundancy
  • Change of contract

Clerical

• What types of businesses are covered by the Clerks Award?
• Classifications & categories
  • Classifications
  • Employment categories
  • Part-time employee entitlements
  • How do I hire a part-time employee
  • Can I change the part-time agreement?
  • Casual employee entitlements
• Pay
  • Pay and Conditions Guides
  • Allowances
  • Higher duties
  • Overtime
  • Paying wages
  • Deductions
  • Annualised salaries
• Hours of work, rosters & breaks
  • Hours of work & rosters
  • Breaks
• Leave
  • Payment for annual leave & annual leave loading
  • Questions about annual leave
• Apprenticeships & traineeships
  • Pay and entitlements for apprentices & trainees
  • Clerical and administration qualifications
• Termination & redundancy
  • Notice of termination

Electrical

• Apprenticeships & traineeships
  • Pay & allowances
  • Overtime & shiftwork
• Employment categories
  • Casual employees
  • Part-time employees
• Hours & RDOs
  • Overtime
  • Call-backs & on call
  • RDOs
• Leave
  • Questions about annual leave
  • Payment for annual leave
• Pay & allowances
  • Pay & Conditions Guides
  • Allowances
  • Inclement weather
  • Overtime rates
  • Paying wages
  • Deductions
• Termination & redundancy
  • Notice of termination
• Travel
  • Distant work

Fast food

• Termination & redundancy
  • Notice of termination
• What types of businesses are covered by the Fast Food Award?
• Classifications & categories
  • Classifications
  • Employment categories
  • Part-time employee entitlements
  • Part-time employee hours
  • Casual employee entitlements
• Pay
  • Pay and Conditions Guides
  • Allowances
  • Overtime
  • Paying wages
  • Deductions
• Hours of work, rosters & breaks
  • Hours of work
  • Organising hours of work
  • Breaks
• Leave
  • Payment for annual leave & annual leave loading
  • Questions about annual leave
• Apprenticeships & traineeships
  • Fast food qualifications
  • Pay and entitlements for apprentices & trainees

Hair & beauty

• Classifications & categories
  • Classifications
  • Employment categories
  • Part-time employee entitlements
  • How do I hire a part-time employee?
  • Can I change the part-time agreement?
  • Casual employee entitlements
• Pay
  • Pay and Conditions Guides
  • Allowances
  • Overtime
  • Paying wages
  • Deductions
• Hours of work, rosters & breaks
  • Hours of work
  • Breaks
  • Rosters
  • Organising rosters
  • Rosters for part-time & casual employees
• Leave
  • Payment for annual leave & annual leave loading
  • Questions about annual leave
• Apprenticeships & traineeships
  • Pay and entitlements for apprentices & trainees
  • Hair and Beauty qualifications
• Termination & redundancy
  • Notice of termination

Horticulture

• Traineeships
• Classifications & categories
  • Classifications
  • Employment categories
  • Part-time employee entitlements
  • How do I hire a part-time employee?
  • Casual employee entitlements
• Hours of work & breaks
  • Hours of work
  • Breaks
• Leave
  • Payment for annual leave
  • Questions about annual leave
• Termination & redundancy
  • Notice of termination
• What type of businesses are covered by the Horticulture Award?
• Pay
  • Overtime
  • Paying wages
  • Deductions
  • Allowances
  • Higher duties
  • Pay and Conditions Guides
  • Piecework rates
• Tax and visa information

Joinery

• Apprenticeships & traineeships
  • Overtime & shiftwork
  • Adult apprentices
  • Pay & allowances
• Employment categories
  • Part-time employees
  • Casual employees
• Hours & RDOs
  • Shiftwork
  • Overtime
  • Call backs
  • RDOs
• Leave
  • Payment for annual leave
  • Questions about annual leave
• Pay & allowances
  • Pay & Conditions Guides
  • Allowances
  • Overtime rates
  • Paying wages
  • Deductions
• Termination & redundancy
  • Notice of termination
• Travel
  • Distant work

Metal manufacturing

• Classifications & categories
• Pay
  • Pay & Conditions Guides
• Leave
• Hours of work & breaks
• Apprenticeships & traineeships
• Termination & redundancy

Registered clubs

• Businesses covered by the Clubs Award
• Classifications & categories
  • Classifications
  • Employment categories
  • Part-time employee entitlements
  • Part-time employee hours
  • Casual employee entitlements
  • Junior employees
• Pay
  • Wages & penalty rates in South Australia
  • Allowances
  • Higher duties
  • Overtime rates
  • Overtime Rates in South Australia
  • Paying wages
  • Deductions
  • Annual salaries
  • Pay and Conditions Guides
• Uniforms & tools
• Hours of work, rosters & breaks
  • Hours of work
  • Breaks
  • Overtime
  • Rosters
• Leave
  • Questions about annual leave
  • Professional development leave
  • Payment for annual leave
• Apprenticeships & traineeships
  • Pay & entitlements
• Termination & redundancy
  • Notice of termination

Restaurants & cafes

• Businesses covered by the Restaurant Award
• Classifications & categories
  • Classifications
  • Employment categories
  • Part-time employee entitlements
  • Part-time employee hours
  • Casual employee entitlements
  • Junior employees
• Pay
  • Allowances
  • Higher duties
  • Overtime rates
  • Paying wages
  • Deductions
  • Annual salaries
  • Superannuation
  • Pay and Conditions Guides
• Uniforms & clothing
• Hours of work, rosters & breaks
  • Hours of work
  • Breaks
  • Overtime
  • Rosters
  • Organising rosters
• Leave
  • Questions about annual leave
  • Payment for annual leave
• Apprenticeships & traineeships
  • Pay & entitlements
  • Hospitality qualifications
• Termination & redundancy
  • Notice of termination

Plumbing

• Apprenticeships & traineeships
  • Overtime & shiftwork
  • Adult apprentices
  • Pay & allowances
• Employment categories
  • Daily hire employees
  • Weekly hire employees
  • Part-time employees
  • Casual employees
• Hours & RDOs
  • Overtime
  • Call outs
  • RDOs
• Leave
  • Questions about annual leave
  • Payment for annual leave
• Pay & allowances
  • Pay
  • Allowances
  • All-purpose allowances
  • Paying wages
  • Deductions
• Termination & redundancy
  • Redundancy
• Travel
  • Distant work

Retail

• What types of businesses are covered by the Retail Award?
• Classifications & categories
  • Classifications
  • Employment categories
  • Part-time employee entitlements
  • How do I hire a part-time employee?
  • Can I change the part-time agreement?
  • Casual employee entitlements
• Pay
  • Pay and Conditions Guides
  • Allowances
  • Overtime
  • Paying wages
  • Deductions
  • Higher duties
• Hours of work, rosters & breaks
  • Hours of work
  • Breaks
  • Rosters
  • Organising rosters
  • What do you do when someone can't come into work?
• Leave
  • Payment for annual leave & annual leave loading
  • Questions about annual leave
• Apprenticeships & traineeships
  • Pay and entitlements for apprentices & trainees
  • Retail qualifications
• Termination & redundancy
  • Notice of termination
• Uniforms & clothing

Road transport

• Owner drivers & hirers
  • Checklist for owner drivers
  • Checklist for hirers
  • Am I a road transport driver under the System?
  • Am I an owner driver or an employee?
  • Pay & related conditions
  • Running your business
• Employee drivers & employers
  • Checklist for employee drivers
  • Checklist for employers
  • Am I a road transport driver under the System?
  • Am I an owner driver or an employee?
  • Pay & entitlements
• Supply chain participants
  • Am I covered by the System?
  • How does the System apply to supply chain participants?
• About the System
  • The Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal
  • Our role
  • Interaction with other laws
  • Record-keeping
  • Useful links
  • Background

Social and Community Services

• Classifications & categories
  • Classifications
  • Employment categories
• Pay
  • Pay and Conditions Guides
  • Equal remuneration order
  • Queensland wages
• Termination & redundancy
  • Notice of termination
• What types of businesses are covered by the SACS Award

Security

• Classifications & categories
  • Classifications
  • Licensing
  • Employment categories
  • Part-time employee entitlements
  • How do I hire a part-time employee?
  • Can I change the part-time agreement?
  • Casual employee entitlements
• Pay
  • Pay and Conditions Guides
  • Allowances
  • Overtime
  • Higher duties
  • Paying wages
  • Deductions
• Hours of work, rosters & breaks
  • Hours of work
  • Minimum & maximum shift lengths
  • Call back
  • Shiftwork
  • Breaks
  • Rosters
  • Rostered days off
  • Shift start and end times
• Leave
  • Payment for annual leave and annual leave loading
  • Additional leave for shift workers
  • Questions about annual leave
• Changing contracts, redundancy & termination
  • Notice of termination
  • Redundancy
  • Change of contract

Vehicle

• What types of businesses are covered by the Vehicle Award?
• Apprenticeships and traineeships
  • Apprentice pay & allowances
  • Adult apprentices
• Classifications and Categories
  • Classifications
  • Employment categories
  • Part-time employee entitlements
  • Part-time employee hours
  • Casual employee entitlements
• Hours of work and breaks
  • Ordinary hours
  • Ordinary hours for shiftworkers
  • Breaks
  • Overtime
• Leave
  • Questions about annual leave
  • Payment for annual leave
• Pay
  • Pay & Conditions Guides
  • Allowances
  • Paying wages
  • Overtime rates
  • Deductions
• Termination and redundancy
  • Notice of termination

Our role

The Fair Work Ombudsman

• Speeches

The Fair Work system

• What is happening in my state?
  • New South Wales
  • Queensland
  • South Australia
  • Tasmania
  • ACT, NT, Vic & WA
• What is the national system?
• Timeline of changes
• FWO & the Commission - what’s the difference?
• Previous agencies

Legislation

Audits and campaigns

• National hair & beauty campaign
• National structural metal product manufacturing campaign
• Fuel retailing campaign
• Residential building industry - apprentice & trainee campaign
• National pharmacy campaign
• Vehicle retailing campaign
• National cleaning follow-up campaign
• National hospitality campaign
  • Accommodation, pubs, taverns & bars
  • Restaurants, cafes and catering
• NSW & ACT
  • Specialised Food Retailing
• NT
• QLD
  • Pest control & gardening services
• SA
• TAS
• VIC
  • Clerical workers in the sex industry
• WA
• Campaign archive
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  • NT
  • QLD
  • SA
  • TAS
  • VIC
  • WA
• Self-audit agreements
• Employers - what to expect

Fair Work Inspectors

• Inspector's powers
• Entering premises
• While on premises
• Fair Work Inspector's assistants
• Asking for a person's name & address
• Asking for & keeping records or documents

Legal

• April 2012 - June 2012
  • January 2012 - March 2012
  • October 2011 - December 2011
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• Current cases
• April 2011 - June 2011
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• 2009 - 2010 Financial year
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• Enforceable undertakings
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• Small claims
• Guidance Notes
  • Public consultation on Guidance Note 7

Publications

• Annual reports
• Research reports
• Customer Service Charter
  • Customer experience statement
• Budgets & expenditure
• Departmental file listing

Key people

Careers

• How to apply
• Why join the FWO?
• Enterprise agreement
• Current vacancies
• Graduates
  • Graduate testimonials
• Indigenous Traineeships

Freedom of Information

• Information Publication Scheme
• Disclosure log

National Employer Program

• Who can participate?
• Why participate in the Program?

Franchise assistance

• National Franchise Program
• Advice for franchisors

Memorandums of Understanding

Apprentices & trainees

Pay

• 2012 Annual Wage Review
• 2011 Annual wage review

Leave

• Annual shut down
• Public holidays

Awards

Termination

The Fair Work system

Working conditions

National Employment Standards (NES)

Industrial action