Horticulture Award [MA000028]
Pieceworkers, Enterprise Agreements, and the Horticulture Award
Pieceworkers can be covered by an enterprise agreement. All enterprise agreements need to pass the Better Off Overall Test (BOOT) before they’re approved.
To pass the BOOT, all employees must be in a better situation under the agreement than if the award covered them.
The BOOT is applied by the Fair Work Commission at the time an agreement is made. This means that the changes made to the piecework provisions in the Horticulture Award from 28 April 2022 will have a different impact depending on when an agreement is made.
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Piecework in the Horticulture Award prior to 28 April 2022
Piecework rates
A piecework rate is where an employee gets paid by the piece. It's based on the amount the employee has picked, packed, pruned or made.
Prior to 28 April 2022 an employer and an employee could enter into a piecework agreement for the employee to be paid a piecework rate.
Prior to 28 April 2022, an employee being paid piecework rates didn’t have a guaranteed minimum pay rate. Their earnings depended entirely on how productive they were. Pieceworkers were paid only for what they could pick, prune or pack.
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Award coverage for strawberry runner producers
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Award coverage for fruit & vegetable packers
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Pieceworkers & leave in the Horticulture Award
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Overtime & penalty rates for casuals in the Horticulture Award
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