Building and Construction General On-Site Award (MA000020) - Civil Sector Updates: Key Changes You Need to Know

This all-purpose allowance must be paid for employee who perform work in lift industry (clause 42.2). A new tag “Lift Industry Allowance” has been created and will allow the rules for this allowance to apply to specific employees only. Please ensure relevant employees are assigned this tag.

This work type is introduced due to system limitations in determining whether the previous shift qualifies as overtime. If an employee works extensive overtime and has not had a minimum of 10 consecutive hours off duty between shifts, apply the "No rest period after overtime" work type to ensure any such hours are paid at 200% of the ordinary hourly rate.

• Default timesheet.
  
• The timesheet with this work type will apply the appropriate penalty rate for the hours worked.
  
• When an employee does not receive a minimum 10-hour break between shifts and works overtime during their current shift, all overtime hours under this work type must be paid at 200% of the ordinary hourly rate.
  

Currently, the RDO accrual rule does not function effectively when an employee worked and took partial leave on the same day. Therefore, a new RDO accrual rule has been introduced to account for partial leave, eliminating the need for manual intervention.

• The existing rule does not accrue RDO because the platform does not consolidate part-day leave and part-day work into a single shift.
  
• Under the new rule, the platform can accrue RDO when an employee has part-day leave and part-day work on the same day.
  

Currently, the Maximum Daily Hour rule was triggered when the time worked in a single shift exceeded 8 hours. In scenarios where an employee works and takes partial leave on the same day, the rule will not recognise this situation. We have updated the condition of this rule to look at "time worked in a day".

• With the "Time worked in a shift" condition, the platform will disregard part-day leave hours and initially pay 8 hours of ordinary hours (including RDO accrual) before applying overtime.
  
• When using the "Time worked in a day" condition, the platform will consolidate all timesheet hours for the day, paying 8 hours of ordinary hours (including RDO accrual) first and applying overtime thereafter.
  

When an employee works through a meal break and continues into overtime during the current shift, all overtime hours must be paid at 200% of the ordinary hourly rate, instead of applying the standard overtime penalty.

• Without the "Work during meal break" work type, overtime will initially be paid at 150% of the ordinary hourly rate.
  
• With the "Work during meal break" work type, all overtime hours will be paid at 200% of the ordinary rate.
  

• The Stop processing unpaid leave rule has been removed because Leave Without Pay (LWOP) is considered part of working hours. It functions similarly to paid leave, with the key difference being unpaid.
• Automatic meal break: Adjusted to exclude Public Holiday not worked and leave work type.
• The allowance rules below have been deleted. These allowances are triggered directly through selecting these work types on timesheets
  • 25.6(e) Weekend return home
  • 25.6(b) Cost of transport and transporting tools
  • 25.6(a) Travelling meal
• Minimum Shift Engagement rules: Adjusted to exclude Recalled to work overtime work type.
• Inclement Weather: Adjusted to remove Time worked without a break is greated than 5 hours condition to ensure Inclement Weather is paid accordingly.
• Maximum hour over period rules: updated to exclude the leave work types in preferred matches condition.
• Industry Allowance rules: updated to ensure this allowance applied minimum unit per shift including PH and Recalled to work overtime scenario.
• Follow the job loading rules: updated to ensure this loading applied minimum unit per shift.
• Higher of Earnings - PFDVL: removed as it is no longer necessary.

• Air-conditioning industry and refrigeration allowance: updated to remove Daily hire tag and trigger by Air-conditioning industry and refrigeration industry allowances tag only.
• In charge of plant: updated to remove Daily hire tag and trigger by In charge of plants tag only.

Please ensure that you have reviewed the impacted employees and the correct relevant tags are assigned accordingly.

• Public Holiday: updated to remove Public Holiday not worked work type.

• The 29.8(d) rule requiring a 10-hour minimum break between shifts has been removed, as clause 29.8 now applies to shift workers, establishing an 8-hour minimum break as the default when overtime is worked.

• The 29.8(d) Minimum Break Between Shifts rule, specifying an 8-hour break, has been removed, leaving only the default minimum break of 10 hours when overtime is worked.