WAGES AND DEMOGRAPHICS
FIELD DESCRIPTION
Agreement number As allocated by Fair Work Australia/Commission Agreement title As allocated by Fair Work Australia/Commission Agreement type Single enterprise non-greenfields etc.
ANZSIC classification Currently to the sub-divisional (2-digit) level
Sector Public or private
Union coverage Union and state/territories coverage
Award Parent award for agreement
Other demographic data Agreement involves single interest employers/approved in public interest under s.189/has undertakings
WAGE INCREASES
Wage increases Quantum and timing of any wage increases Agreements with no quantifiable
wage increases
Lists the reason for non-quantification (e.g. linked to Fair Work Australia/Commission Minimum Wage Panel decisions) First wage increase not
quantifiable
Records whether the first wage increase is non-quantifiable due to a new classification structure, or another reason
No wage rates in agreement Keeps track of agreements that contain no wage rates and no reference to award rates
Other wage increases Outlines extent to which wage increases in the agreement are linked to Fair Work Commission minimum wage decisions and/or movements in the CPI
CPI in line with allowances Agreement links movements in allowances to movements in the CPI
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FIELD DESCRIPTION
PERFORMANCE AND PRODUCTIVITY PAYMENTS
Bonuses Conditional or unconditional
Performance/productivity pay schemes
Incidence and nature (e.g. individual/work team/all employees)
Employee share ownership Incidence (profit sharing or share acquisition) REPLACED AGREEMENTS
Replaced agreements List of agreements which the current agreement replaces VARIATIONS TO AGREEMENT
Variations List of variations to current agreement. Agreement record includes details of varied agreement provisions
Undertakings Details of any undertaking provided in order to get the agreement approved. Undertakings recorded as one of the following:
Dispute resolution—scope/representation Dispute resolution—arbitration NES compliance Remuneration Conditions Other/Unclear EMPLOYER DETAILS
ABN Australian Business Number
Name Legal name as recorded in the Australian Business Number Register
Employees Number of employees covered by agreement (including the breakdown into women, part-time/casual e.tc. where provided)
CONDITIONS
No. FIELD NAME DESCRIPTION
Leave and salary provisions 1. Special paid leave
(including grandparent leave)
The agreement specifically provides for paid leave of a personal nature, aside from sick leave, family/carer’s or compassionate leave. For example, this leave would allow an employee to attend meetings with their child’s teacher, or to be home when repairs are carried out on a service or appliance.
From 2011 onwards, this clause includes paid grandparent leave.
2. Volunteering leave The agreement contains a provision for employees to take leave for volunteer work.
3. LONG SERVICE LEAVE
This is a 'header' field.
The agreement contains long service leave provisions, such as those below, or where there are long service leave provisions not covered by the definitions below.
4. Flexible access Access to taking long service leave is flexible, i.e. may be taken at a time negotiated between employer and employee. It may also cover LSL which can be taken at half pay for an extended period or for half the period at double pay. 5. Accrual ___ weeks per
year
The amount of long service leave accrued by the employee is included in the agreement, e.g. 12 weeks over 10years is coded as 1.3.
This is the rate of accrual in the first 10 or 15 years and ignores subsequent rates of accrual.
6. Cashing out Employees are able to cash out some or all of their LSL entitlement during the course of their employment, or where LSL is paid out quarterly, annually, etc. This does not include LSL pay-out provisions that are part of redundancy pay-outs. 7. ANNUAL LEAVE This is a 'header' field.
The agreement contains annual leave provisions either as defined below or where there are annual leave provisions not covered by the definitions below.
8. Flexible/facilitative The use of and access to annual leave for employees is not limited by any provision in the agreement. Facilitative means that access to the condition or any change over access to the condition is negotiated between the employer and employee.
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9. Access to single days The agreement provides for some annual leave to be taken in single days rather than as a block. This provision will often be found among family-leave provisions.
10. Cashing out The agreement includes payment for any unused annual leave or an employee can cash out a proportion of annual leave, except where these are mentioned in conjunction with redundancy pay-outs.
11. Annual leave quantum exceeds NES
entitlement
The amount of annual leave per year exceeds the
entitlements provided in the NES (four weeks for non-shift workers, and five weeks for shift workers).
This is a new clause for 2011. 12. Purchased leave or
48/52 or career break scheme
Under this provision an employee can, for example, elect to be paid four years salary over a five-year period and have the fifth year off as a career break. Purchased leave can enable an employee to obtain additional annual leave by way of salary sacrifice and have the salary decrease averaged over the year, for example an employee could take an additional four weeks leave and have the 48 weeks pay averaged over 52 weeks of the year.
13. Annual leave loading There is an annual leave loading paid to all entitled
employees either once per year or included in the employee’s salary when he/she takes annual leave.
14. PARENTAL LEAVE This is a 'header' field.
The agreement contains provisions for parental leave associated with childbirth or adoption.
15. Top up of government paid parental leave scheme
The agreement tops up the government paid parental leave scheme so that the employee can receive their normal rate of pay while on maternity leave. The number of weeks of top-up is recorded.
This is a new clause in 2011. 16. Primary caregivers or
maternity leave— number of weeks (paid)
The agreement includes paid maternity leave or paid leave for the ‘primary care giver’ of a child/children. Agreements may stipulate maternity leave as time off work for a woman to have and be the primary care giver for her child, while some agreements are not gender-specific and use the term primary care giver. The number of weeks of paid leave is recorded. 17. Secondary caregivers or
maternity leave—
The agreement includes paid paternity leave or paid leave for the ‘secondary care giver’ of a child/children. Agreements may stipulate paternity leave as time off work for a man at the time
No. FIELD NAME DESCRIPTION
number of weeks (paid) of the birth of his child to be the secondary care giver or, provider of partner support, while agreements may not be gender-specific and use a term such as ‘secondary care giver’. The number of weeks of paid leave is recorded. 18. Paid adoption leave—
number of weeks (paid)
The agreement includes paid adoptive leave. Adoption leave is time off work for an employee to adopt and provide primary care for an adoptive child. The number of weeks of paid leave is recorded.
19. Final payment on return to work
The agreement provides that the final part of a parental leave payment will be paid when the employee returns to work after the period of leave.
20. Flexible paid parental leave
Access to taking paid parental leave is flexible, i.e. it may be taken in a way negotiated between employer and employee such as at half pay for an extended period or for half of the period at double pay.
21. Simultaneous leave Parents have the right to request concurrent parental leave be extended from the standard three weeks [up to a limit of eight weeks].
22. Return to part-time from parental leave
The agreement contains provisions which allow an employee to return to work on a part-time basis after taking parental leave.
23. Agreement paid parental leave to be removed on commencement of Government paid parental leave
The agreement provides for paid parental leave, but states that the scheme under the agreement will cease once the government’s universal paid parental leave scheme commences operation.
24. Agreement paid parental leave scheme to be modified on
commencement of Government paid parental leave
The paid parental leave scheme in the agreement will be modified in some way upon commencement of the government’s paid parental leave scheme, but will not be removed altogether. For example, the modification might be that the agreement scheme is reduced to topping up the difference between the government’s scheme and what was previously provided under the agreement.
25. PERSONAL LEAVE This is a 'header' field.
The agreement contains personal leave provisions.
26. Insurance scheme The agreement provides for an insurance scheme covering absence from work due to a non work-related illness or injury. The agreement may stipulate that employees have to ‘cash in’ part of their sick leave entitlement to cover payment of the premiums. This field also covers ‘income protection insurance’
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that relates to non work-related injury or illness (Note: this is distinct from income protection insurance related to
redundancy provisions). 27. Pay-out on
termination/retirement
The agreement provides for employees to be paid the value (full or partial) of accumulated sick leave on resignation, retirement or other form of termination of employment. 28. Sick leave unlimited The agreement is open-ended on the number of days of sick
leave available to the employee, for example, there is no limit on the number of days of leave providing a certificate is produced.
29. Days sick leave The agreement provides for paid leave available for
employees when they are sick or injured. The number of days of paid leave is recorded.
30. Extra days paid carer’s leave
Paid leave (separate from ordinary sick/personal leave) is available for employees to care for a sick family member in addition to them being able to access paid days as part of their personal leave entitlements. The number of days leave is recorded if specified in the agreement.
31. Accumulation bank— limited
The amount of sick leave that an employee may accumulate from year to year is limited by the agreement.
32. COMPASSIONATE LEAVE
This is a 'header' field.
The agreement provides compassionate leave either as defined below or not covered by the specific provisions below. Compassionate leave is defined as:
When a member of the employee's immediate family, or a member of the employee's household:
[a] contracts or develops a personal illness that poses a serious threat to his or her life; or
[b] sustains a personal injury that poses a serious threat to his or her life; or
[c] dies
Bereavement is now only one component of compassionate leave.
33. Greater than NES Agreement’s compassionate leave provisions are more generous than those contained in the NES. This would typically be with regards to quantum of leave available per occasion.
No. FIELD NAME DESCRIPTION
This is a new condition for 2011.
34. Less than NES Agreement’s compassionate leave provisions are less
generous than those contained in the NES. This might be with regards to quantum of leave available, or the circumstances in which the leave is available (e.g. for bereavement only). This is a new condition for 2011.
35. SALARY This is a 'header' field.
The agreement contains salary provisions either as defined below or not covered by the specific provisions below. 36. Annualised salary An annualised salary exists at date of certification or there is a
commitment to developing an annualised salary arrangement during the life of the agreement. Where an annualised salary exists, employees forgo payments that are additional to their salary (such as allowances) in return for a higher annual salary. At least three of these payments have to be absorbed for it to be coded as an annualised salary. Annualised salaries commonly incorporate some of the following:
Penalty rates, overtime payments, allowances, rostered days off, public holiday entitlements, annual leave loading, on-call and call-out pay.
37. Loaded hourly rate The agreement incorporates both shift penalties and allowances into a higher hourly base rate.
38. Flexible remuneration The agreement allows for flexible remuneration for overtime, public holidays, annual leave loading, long service leave etc. For example, instead of penalty rates for working on a public holiday, additional leave is added to annual leave, or annual leave loading may be salary sacrificed to superannuation. 39. SALARY SACRIFICE/
PACKAGING
This is a ‘header’ field.
Employees may elect to give up part of their salary for non- cash benefits. These benefits include those listed below, and any other arrangements that might apply.
40. Superannuation Employees have the option to salary sacrifice into their superannuation.
This is a new field for 2011.
41. Child care Employees have the option to salary sacrifice to pay for child care.
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42. Other/Unclear Arrangement
Employees have the option to salary sacrifice for any other benefit, or the details of the clause are unclear.
This is a new field for 2011. 43. SUPERANNUATION This is a 'header' field.
The agreement contains 'superannuation' provisions either as defined below or not covered by the specific provisions below. 44. Number of funds named
in the agreement
The number of funds named in the agreement is recorded. ‘Employees may have their superannuation entitlements credited to either HESTA or First State Super’ is recoded as two funds.
45. Threshold $ ____ months/hours
The agreement specifies that the employee must either earn a particular amount (the threshold), or work a particular number of hours, before the employer must make superannuation contributions.
46. Calls up super guarantee only
The agreement refers only to requirements of superannuation guarantee legislation, for example:
‘The parties are aware of their obligations under the
Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992’ with no further superannuation provision.
47. Employer super
contribution, per cent of income ____%
The agreement states that the employer must pay a certain percentage of the employee’s salary which is different (can be either lower or higher) than the superannuation guarantee (9 per cent from 1 July 2002) as a superannuation contribution. The percentage amount is recorded.
48. Flat dollar rate The agreement stipulates that the employer must contribute a set dollar amount into employee superannuation schemes. 49. Incentive from employer The agreement provides that voluntary employee
contributions result in higher employer contributions. 50. Superannuation paid
during parental leave
Superannuation is to be paid when employee is on parental leave.
This is a new field for 2011. 51. Other entitlements
modified to pay for increase to superannuation guarantee legislation
Agreement modifies other entitlements to fund government’s increases to the superannuation guarantee legislation minimum.
No. FIELD NAME DESCRIPTION Hours of work provisions
52. HOURS OF WORK This is a 'header' field.
The agreement contains 'hours of work' provisions either as defined below or not covered by the specific provisions below. 53. Seasonal variation The agreement provides (a) flexible working hours which
increase during peak periods, with excess hours banked and used during non-peak periods, e.g. working on a ski resort all year round—building up extra hours during winter and working fewer hours during the summer months or (b) for instances such as earlier start times in the hotter months of the year. 54. Average over more than
four weeks
The agreement provides for average weekly hours to be averaged over a period of more than four weeks. 55. Weekly hrs _____ Records the number of hours to be regularly worked per
week. 56. Compressed working
week
The hours worked in a day can be increased such that the number of days worked in a week will be less. For example an agreement may allow employees to work four 10-hour days per week. This is different from rostered day off or paid time off provisions.
57. Penalty rates apply for Saturday and Sunday work
The agreement stipulates that ordinary hours of work can only be worked between Monday and Friday.
58. Penalty rates apply for Sunday work only
The ordinary hours of work a week can only be worked Monday to Saturday.
59. No weekend penalty rates
There is no restriction on the days which ordinary hours can be worked.
60. PUBLIC HOLIDAYS This is a 'header' field.
The agreement contains 'public holiday' provisions either as defined below or not covered by the specific provisions below. 61. Ordinary time rates
apply
Rather than taking time off, employees may be paid for work on public holidays at the equivalent of their ordinary time rates of pay.
62. Penalty rates apply Rather than taking time off, employees may be paid for work on public holidays at penalty rates of pay (at time and a half, double time etc.).
63. Some or all absorbed The agreement provides for some or all public holidays to be absorbed into an annualised salary or loaded hourly rate of
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pay. 64. Enterprise-specific
public holiday
The agreement designates an additional public holiday. This might be a union picnic day, or another enterprise-specific day. A paid day off for employees birthdays is also recorded here.
65. OVERTIME This is a 'header' field.
The agreement contains overtime provisions such as those below or where there are overtime provisions not covered by the definitions below.
66. Ordinary time rates apply
Rather than taking time off, employees may be paid for overtime at the equivalent of their ordinary time rates of pay. 67. Penalty rates apply Rather than taking time off, employees may be paid for
overtime at penalty rates of pay (at time and a half, double time etc.).
68. Absorbed The agreement partially or completely absorbs overtime payments and incorporates them into a loaded salary (sometimes called an annualised salary).
69. OVERTIME - TOIL This is a 'header' field.
The agreement contains time off in lieu (TOIL) provisions with regards to overtime work.
70. TOIL at ordinary time rates
TOIL accumulates at a rate of time for time, i.e. 1 hour off for every hour worked. If an agreement mentions TOIL but doesn’t specify the rate (e.g. overtime may be taken as TOIL by agreement between the employee and the manager) this field is coded.
71. TOIL at penalty rates TOIL, to be taken in the future, accumulates at a rate greater than time for time, i.e. 1.5 hours off for every 1 hour worked or TOIL is given at penalty rates.
72. SHIFT WORK/ROSTER This is a 'header' field.
The agreement contains 'shift work and/or rostering' provisions either as defined below or not covered by the