Hospitality Industry (General) Award
Covers hotels, motels, resorts, restaurants, cafes, catering, bars and clubs. 7 classifications (Introductory + L1-L6, standard rate Level 4) with cooks split across Levels 1-6 by trade qualification. Two junior tables (general vs office), junior liquor-service workers paid as adults, and two all-purpose allowances (fork-lift driver and tiered airport-catering supervisory).
Fully built. Rates, allowances, penalties and any required apprentice / junior rates are all wired to the rate resolver and have been verified against the consolidated award text and the latest pay guide.
What's built
- All 7 cl. 18.1 classifications at the corrected July 2025 figures.
- General junior table (cl. 18.4(a)) from under-17 (50%) through 20-year-old (100%), with the distinctive 17-year split via the year-12 marker.
- Office junior table (cl. 18.4(b)) and the cl. 13.5 liquor-service-as-adult override captured as configuration.
- Cooking-trade (cl. 19.1) and waiting-trade (cl. 19.2) apprentice grids, both time-based and competency-based, plus adult-apprentice floor rules per cl. 19.5.
- All cl. 26 allowances - fork-lift (all-purpose), the airport catering supervisory tiers, meal-OT, and the rest of the cl. 26 set.
- Penalty rates including the cl. 29.2 Mon-Fri after-hours 100% + dollar-per-hour supplements (not pure multipliers).
- Higher-duties pro-rata / whole-day rule with the F&B grade 2 / 3 exclusion (cl. 22).
Known limitations
- Casino gaming stream cl. 18.3 Table 4 is documented but not yet seeded as a separate sector - schema lacks the dimension.
- Apprentice variant enum reuses 'pre_2014' for waiting-trade apprentices as a schema workaround until a 'waiting' variant is migrated in.
Setup & special instructions
- Junior liquor-service workers are paid AS ADULTS (cl. 13.5) at the classification rate for the work performed - not at the junior percentage. Make sure the override is set on those employees.
- Higher duties EXCLUDES food and beverage attendants grade 2 or 3 - those classifications cannot claim higher duties under cl. 22.
- Mon-Fri non-shift after-hours work is paid at 100% + a dollar-per-hour supplement (cl. 29.2 Table 14), not a multiplier - confirm your payroll engine handles the supplement correctly.
- Fork-lift driver allowance is all-purpose (folds into the ordinary hourly rate); the cl. 26.3(b) pre-2020 daily form is on-occurrence only.
- • Hospitality
- • Hotels
- • Restaurants
- • Catering
- • Bars and clubs
The consolidated award text is the authoritative source. Always confirm specific obligations against the award itself - Mployr's implementation status reflects what we've seeded; it does not replace legal advice.
Want to see this award running on your data?
We can demo a pay run on the hospitality award using sample employees in a sandbox tenant - including any of the special-instruction steps above so you can see exactly what your team's day-to-day looks like.
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