Broadcasting, Recorded Entertainment and Cinemas Award
TV, Radio, Journalists and Cinema sectors are seeded - covers the bulk of broadcaster, station, newsroom and cinema operations. Schedule D (Performers), Schedule F (Musicians) and Schedule G (Motion Picture Production) are NOT yet supported because they have radically different engagement and call-rate structures that don't fit the standard weekly-rate model.
Partially built. Core rates and the most-used allowances are in place, but specific clauses or cohorts are still on the to-do list. Read the limitations section before relying on this award for your payroll.
What's built
- TV, Radio, Journalists and Cinema sector classifications - ~33 distinct rate tiers covering the 100+ named roles in the pay guide.
- Common penalties - Saturday 150%, Sunday 175%, public holiday 250%.
- Sector-specific shift loadings: TV night shift, TV permanent night, radio stand-by, cinema break-between-shifts.
- All-purpose director's allowance set (5 separate director's grades) for TV broadcasting - folded into the ordinary hourly rate when the role flag is set.
- Cadet journalists modelled as 3-year apprentices (Y1+Y2 same rate, Y3 higher) per the consolidated award.
Known limitations
- Performers (Schedule D) NOT seeded - uses hourly minimum-call rates and post-synch hourly minimum-call structures with engagement-based pay. Needs a dedicated seeder.
- Musicians (Schedule F) NOT seeded - Principal Player +25% / Leader +33.3% loadings with per-call rates and per-engagement allowances. Needs a dedicated seeder.
- Motion Picture Production (Schedule G) NOT seeded - feature-film weekly engagements with stand-in / double / extra / bit-player / performer-class loadings (e.g. $467-$535 per episode in excess of 5). Needs a dedicated seeder.
- Standard rate (cl. 13.3) refers to a Grade 5 entertainment employee, but the pay guide doesn't enumerate a literal Grade 5 - we map it to TV_OPERATOR_APLUS ($1,165.70/wk) as the closest match.
- Back pack allowance is stored as a single $3.00 midpoint placeholder - actual amounts in the pay guide vary by camera classification ($2.67-$3.80 per shift). May need classification-specific sub-allowance rows for precise rostering.
- Cadet journalists are stored under apprentice_variant='3_year' as a schema reuse - they are NOT technically apprentices.
Setup & special instructions
- Match each named role to the closest seeded rate tier - the pay guide enumerates 100+ specific named roles but most share base rates within their sector. The 33 tiers we seeded cover the distinct rate points.
- TV technical maintenance / videotape allowances are stored as PERCENTAGES (e.g. 6.00 means 6%). The resolver interprets these as percentages of the employee's minimum hourly rate, not absolute dollar amounts.
- If you employ performers, musicians or motion-picture production crew, contact support - those schedules need bespoke handling that's not yet in the platform.
- For TV directors, set the role flag to the appropriate director's-grade allowance code so the right grade flows into the ordinary hourly rate.
- • Broadcasting
- • Television
- • Radio
- • Cinemas
- • Journalism
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 broadcasting & cinemas 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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