The article provides guidelines about when to use the different work types and tags included as part of the pre-built Aquaculture Industry Award package. For further information about this industry award, refer to Aquaculture Industry Award 2020.
Key updates
Select the current financial year tab to see award updates for the 2026/27 financial year, while all previous updates before this time you can find in the historical financial years tab.
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We have updated the award to reflect the Fair Work Commission's National Minimum Wage increase detailed in the Annual Wage Review 2026 decision, and also includes updates to expense-related allowances. You can find more information on the Determinations here and here.
These changes come into effect from the first full pay period on or after the 1st July 2026. Please install these updates after you have finalised your last pay run before the first full pay period beginning on or after the 1st July 2026.
13th
We have introduced a new suite of configurations for Salaried Employment Agreements to allow the employers to manage the salaried employees, who are under Individual flexibility arrangements, directly within the award instead of having to remove them.
This introduction, which is an enhancement rather than a legislative update requirement, includes the items below if they do not already exist within an award:
- Pay Categories (Salary and Salary - Public Holiday Not Worked).
- Leave Allowance Templates for “No loading” and “With loading”.
- Rule Set to disregard timesheets.
- Pay Rate Templates.
- Employment Agreements for all employee types (full-time, part-time, and casual).
For detailed information on the changes, please refer to our guide here.
We have also renamed all leave allowance templates by adding the award code as a prefix. This ensures each template can be accurately associated with its respective award, particularly in cases where template names are identical.
23rd
We have updated the award to reflect changes in the Tool allowance, ensuring alignment with the Pay guide and Conditions Tool. To address these changes, we have updated the rule and rates from per hour to per week in all applicable pay rate templates.
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We have updated the award to reflect the Fair Work Commission's National Minimum Wage increase detailed in the Annual Wage Review 2024-25 decision and also includes updates to expense-related allowances. You can find more information on the Determinations here and here.
These changes come into effect from the first full pay period on or after the 1st July 2025. Please install these updates after you have finalised your last pay run before the first full pay period beginning on or after the 1st July 2025.
24th
We have updated the award PRT for Permanent Aquaculture Attendant Level 2 and Casual Aquaculture Attendant Level 2 with the correct rates, as per the pay guide. We also fixed the EA mapping to the PRT for the following classifications:
- Aquaculture Attendant Level 1 - Full-Time
- Aquaculture Attendant Level 1 - Part-Time
- Aquaculture Attendant Level 3 - Casual
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We have updated the award to reflect the Fair Work Commission's Review of C14 and C13 rates in modern awards. You can find more information on the Determination here.
These changes come into effect from the first full pay period on or after the 1st January 2025. Please install these updates after you have finalised your last pay run before the first full pay period beginning on or after the 1st January 2025.
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We have updated the award to reflect the Fair Work Commission's National Minimum Wage increase detailed in the Annual Wage Review 2023-24 decision and also includes updates to expense-related allowances. You can find more information on the Determinations here and here.
These changes come into effect from the first full pay period on or after the 1st July 2024. Please install these updates after you have finalised your last pay run before the first full pay period beginning on or after the 1st July 2024.
We have also updated the "Community Service Leave Taken" pay category, where it does not accrue super.
All pay condition rule sets have been updated to include a rule for Paid Family Domestic Violence Leave.
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From 1 August, all employees are entitled to 10 days of paid family and domestic violence leave each year. The (Unpaid) Family and Domestic Violence Leave configuration settings under awards have been updated - the leave category is disabled from award leave allowance templates, and the work type is not enabled automatically for all employees. Please ensure that employees no longer use the unpaid leave category or work type.
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We have updated the award to reflect the Fair Work Commission’s National Minimum Wage increase detailed in the Annual Wage Review 2022-23 decision and also includes updates to expense-related allowances. You can find information on the Determinations here and here.
These changes come into effect from the first full pay period on or after the 1st July 2023. Please install these updates after you have finalised your last pay run before the first full pay period beginning on or after the 1st July 2023.
31st
We have updated the award to reflect changes made as part of the Fair Work Decision regarding Paid Family and Domestic Violence Leave. Further information on what changes we have applied to the platform and what you should be aware of you can find within this article. We have created the following new categories:
- New Leave Category: Paid Family and Domestic Violence Leave.
- New Pay Category: Paid Family and Domestic Violence Leave.
- New Work Type: Paid Family and Domestic Violence Leave taken.
We have updated the Leave Allowance Templates to disable the existing unpaid Family and Domestic Violence and we have enabled the new Paid Family and Domestic Violence Leave. We also updated any impacted rule conditions.
As part of Fair Work's ruling, an employee must be paid their full pay rate; this includes their base rate plus any incentive-based payments and bonuses, loadings, monetary allowances, overtime or penalty rates, and any other separately identifiable amount.
Install the pre-built award package
To read details on how to install and configure this Pre-built Award Template, please review the following article. Before relying on the award information, users should carefully evaluate its accuracy, currency, completeness, and relevance for their purposes. You should also obtain appropriate professional advice.
Work types
Work types are a description of the kind of shift you are working, and you select them when you record a timesheet. The following is a list of work types employees can select on their timesheet, and the meaning of each item.
| 8hr break between shifts (by agreement) | Choose this work type when, by agreement between an employer and an employee, the break between shifts is eight hours (rather than the usual minimum of ten hours). |
| Annual leave taken | Choose this work type when annual leave is taken. |
| Compassionate leave taken | Choose this work type when compassionate leave is taken. |
| Diving allowance – equipment not supplied | Choose this work type when a finish attendant is required to undertake diving duties and diving equipment is not supplied by the employer. |
| Diving allowance – equipment supplied | Choose this work type when a finish attendant is required to undertake diving duties and diving equipment is supplied by the employer. |
| Family and domestic violence leave taken | Choose this work type when unpaid family and domestic violence leave is taken. |
| First aid allowance | Choose this work type where an employee, trained and qualified in first aid, is appointed by the employer to perform first aid duty for a shift. |
| Long service leave taken | Choose this work type when long service leave is taken. |
| Leave without pay taken | Choose this work type when any unpaid leave is taken. |
| Meal allowance | Choose this work type when an employee has worked overtime and is entitled to a meal allowance. |
| No meal break | Choose this work type when an employee does not have a meal break and therefore the shift does not require an automatic meal break deduction. |
| Public holiday not worked | Choose this work type where an employee is not required to work on a shift falling on a gazetted public holiday that the employee would have otherwise worked had it not been a public holiday. |
| Paid community services leave taken | Choose this work type when community service leave is taken. |
| Personal/Carer's leave taken | Choose this work type when personal and/or carer's leave is taken. |
| Time in lieu taken | Choose this work type when time in lieu is taken. |
| TIL of overtime | Choose this work type if the employee elects to accrue time in lieu of being paid overtime for a shift. |
| Travel time allowance – offshore tuna farm | Choose this work type when an employee is working at an offshore tuna farm and entitled to travel time allowance at ordinary rates of pay for time spent travelling. Payment will only be made on trips longer than 30 minutes. |
| Travel time allowance – work away from the usual workplace | TChoose this work type when an employee is working away from the usual workplace and entitled to travel time allowance at ordinary rates of pay for time spent travelling. |
| Work on unrostered shift | Choose this work type when an employee is working on their rostered day off. |
| Vehicle allowance | Choose this work type where an employee uses their own motor vehicle in the course of their duties. The kilometres travelled should be entered into the 'units' field. |
Tags
Employee Tags are specific conditions typically related to the employee’s agreement. These are often conditions negotiated and agreed between the employer and the employee, or unique characteristics of the employee’s role. Payment of these provisions is usually of a recurring and ongoing nature.
| Continuous shiftworker | Assign this tag to an employee whose work is carried on with consecutive shifts throughout the 24 hours of each of at least six consecutive days without interruption except for breakdowns or meal breaks or due to unavoidable causes beyond the control of the employer. This tag would need to be assigned in addition to the Shiftworker tag. |
| First aid allowance | Assign this tag to an employee who has been trained to render first aid, is the holder of appropriate first aid qualifications, and is appointed to perform first aid duty on a regular ongoing basis.. |
| Non-successive shiftwork | Assign this tag if an employee carries out non-successive afternoon or night shift work under clause 21.1 (f) of the award. |
| Shiftworker | Choose this tag if the employee is engaged as a shift worker. |
| TIL of overtime | Assign this tag to an employee who permanently elects to accrue time in lieu rather than be paid overtime. If this tag is assigned to an employee, you will not be required to attach the TIL of Overtime work type to the employee's timesheet. |
| Tool allowance | Assign this tag if the employee is required to provide their own tools. |