Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FAIR WORK ACT 2009 - SECT 295

Expressing minimum wages and the casual loading

  (1)   In a national minimum wage order:

  (a)   the national minimum wage, and the special national minimum wages, set by the order must be expressed in a way that produces a monetary amount per hour; and

  (b)   the casual loading for award/agreement free employees must be expressed as a percentage.

Note:   The means by which the national minimum wage or a special national minimum wage may be expressed include:

(a)   a monetary amount per hour; or

(b)   a monetary amount for a specified number of hours; or

(c)   a method for calculating a monetary amount per hour.

Terms about how the order applies

  (2)   The order may also include terms about how the order, or any of the requirements in it, applies.