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Australia - Minimum Wages - 2011
Fair Work Act 2009, No. 28 of 2009 incorporating amendments up to Act No. 51 of 2010
Remarks: Most of the Fair Work Act 2009 applies to:
(b) any employing entity in Victoria, the Northern Territory or the Australian Capital Territory;
(c) any employing entity in New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia or Tasmania, other than the relevant State government or prescribed employer;
(d) the Commonwealth or a Commonwealth authority; or
(e) an entity which usually employs a waterside employee, maritime employee or flight crew officer in connection with interstate or overseas trade or commerce.
There are, however, some provisions of broader application. These are specified in the database where applicable.
Crimes Act 1914, incorporating amendments up to Act No. 127 of 2010
Crimes Act 1914 - Part I
Annual Wage Review 2009-2010 [2010] FWAFB 4000
FWA Annual Wage Decision 2009-2010
Fair Work (State Declarations - employers not to be national system employers) Endorsements 2009 and 2010
Fair Work (State Declarations) Endorsements
For the purposes of the national minimum wage, an employee includes a person employed:
(a) by a constitutional corporation;
(b) in Victoria, the Northern Territory or the Australian Capital Territory by any employer;
(c) in New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia or Tasmania by any employer other than the relevant State government or prescribed authority;
(d) by the Commonwealth or a Commonwealth authority; or
(e) in connection with interstate or overseas trade or commerce as a waterside employee, maritime employee or flight crew officer.
Fair Work Act 2009 §§13, 14, 30C, 30D, 283
For the purposes of the national minimum wage, employer includes:
Fair Work Act 2009 §§14, 30D, 283
There are three principle categories of minimum wage rates:
(a) modern award minimum wages, which are industry-specific;
(b) the national minimum wage, which is of general application and underpins all industry and enterprise-specific rates; and
(c) the special national minimum wage, which applies to specified categories of vulnerable workers, including junior employees, trainees and employees with a disability.
Fair Work Act 2009 §§135(2), 206, 285, 294
Fair Work Australia (FWA) sets and varies minimum wages for national system employees. Minimum wage-setting is determined by a Minimum Wage Panel headed by the President of Fair Work Australia and comprising six other Minimum Wage Panel members.
FWA must conduct and complete an annual wage review in each financial year. In an annual wage review, FWA:
(a) must review modern award minimum wages and the national minimum wage order; and
(b) may make one or more determinations varying modern awards to set, vary or revoke modern award minimum wages; and
(c) must make a national minimum wage order.
Fair Work Australia must, in relation to each annual wage review, ensure that all persons and bodies have a reasonable opportunity to make and comment on written submissions for consideration in the review. It must also publish all submissions made to FWA for consideration in the review.
The President of FWA may also direct that matter be investigated, and that a report about the matter be prepared, for consideration in an annual wage review. If research is conducted for the purposes of an annual wage review, FWA must publish the research so that submissions can be made addressing issues covered by the research.
Fair Work Act 2009 §§285, 289, 290, 291
Minimum wage set through decentralized collective bargaining
A minimum wage may be agreed between the parties at an enterprise level and set in an enterprise agreement. This wage must not be less than the national minimum wage or the wage set in the relevant modern award.
Fair Work Act 2009 §206
The Fair Work Act sets out a number of criteria to be taken into account by FWA when fixing the minimum wage.
Fair Work Act 2009 §284
FWA is required to take account of relative living standards and the needs of the low paid.
Fair Work Act 2009 §284(1)(c)
Level of wages and incomes in the country
FWA is required to take account of relative living standards and the needs of the low paid. It is also to have regard to the principle of equal remuneration for work of equal or comparable value.
Fair Work Act 2009 §284(1)(c) and (d)
FWA must take account of the performance and competitiveness of the national economy, including productivity, business competitiveness and viability, inflation and employment growth.
Fair Work Act 2009 §284(1)(a)
FWA must have regard to promoting social inclusion through increased workforce participation.
Fair Work Act 2009 §284(1)(b)
Capacity of employers to pay
FWA must take into account the need to provide a comprehensive range of fair minimum wages to junior employees, employees to whom training arrangements apply and employees with a disability.
Fair Work Act 2009 §284(1)(e)
The scope of modern award minimum wages is determined by the scope of the relevant modern award.
The national minimum wage order applies to employees who are not covered by a modern award or enterprise agreement and who are not:
(a) junior employees; or
(b) employees to whom training arrangements apply; or
(c) employees with a disability.
The special national minimum wage applies to the employees to whom it is expressed in the order to apply and must include all junior employees, employees to whom training arrangements apply and employees who have a disability, and are not covered by an award or enterprise agreement.
Fair Work Act 2009 §§143, 282, 283, 294
Workers on vocational placements are not covered by the Fair Work Act 2009.
Fair Work Act 2009 §13
No sectors are explicitly excluded from the national minimum wage coverage. However, employees of state governments and prescribed authorities are excluded by virtue of the limits on the state referral of their industrial relations power to the Commonwealth.
Fair Work Act 2009 §§13, 14, 30C, 30D
Fair Work (State Declarations) Endorsements 2009 and 2010
Specific minimum wage rates
These are set by FWA in the relevant modern awards and are adjusted annually with reference to adjustments to the national minimum wage.
Fair Work Act 2009 §§135, 285
The 2009-2010 national minimum wage order set a national minimum wage of $569.90 per week or $15 per hour with effect from 1 July 2010.
Modern award minimum wages were increased by $26 per week or 69 cents an hour (based on a 38 hour week) with effect from 1 July 2010. The resulting minimum wage level differs between industries.
FWA Annual Wage Decision 2009-2010 paragraphs 424 and 426
The last decision was handed down on 3 June 2010, with effect from 1 July 2010.
FWA Annual Wage Decision 2009-2010 paragraph 346
Wages are to be paid in money by cash, by electronic funds transfer to an account of the employee, by cheque, money order, postal order or similar payable to the employee, or by a method authorised under a modern award or enterprise agreement.
Fair Work Act 2009 §323
The Fair Work Act 2009 requires that wages be paid in accordance with any applicable modern award or enterprise agreement and at least monthly.
FWA must conduct and complete an annual wage review in each financial year
Fair Work Act 2009 §285
It is an offence under the Fair Work Act 2009 to contravene a national minimum wage order or a term of modern award.
Fair Work Act 2009 §§45, 293
Primary responsibility for labour inspection is held by the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO). FWO inspectors have the power to enter workplaces for the purposes of checking compliance with the Fair Work Act 2009.
Authorised union officials also have limited rights under the Fair Work Act to enter workplaces where members work to investigate suspected contraventions.
Fair Work Act 2009 For function and powers of FWO inpsectors - see Subdivision D of Division 3 of Part 5-3 of Chapter 5
For union right of entry provisions - see Part 3-4 of Chapter 3
Fines in national currency for non-respect of legislation
The Fair Work Act 2009 sets a penalty of 60 penalty units ($110) for a contravention of a modern award or a national minimum wage order. This consistutes a fine of AUD$6600 per contravention.
Fair Work Act 2009 §§45, 539
Crimes Act 1914 §4AA
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