Australia Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award 2020 (MA000036)

Australia (national system employers)

vFair Work Commission consolidated award incorporating all amendments up to and including 16 September 2026 (PR814392, corrected by PR814410); read 30 September 2026

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The modern award setting minimum employment conditions for plumbing and fire sprinkler work in Australia: coverage, employment types, apprentices, classifications, ordinary hours and rostered days off, minimum rates, allowances (tools, travel, fares, distant work, licences, special allowances), overtime, shiftwork, leave, consultation, disputes, termination and redundancy. Rates are named, not quoted: the figures change every 1 July.

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Australia Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award 2020 (MA000036) is a compliance framework from Australia (national system employers) with 9 domains and 142 controls. The largest domains are Part 4: Wages and Allowances – Australia Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award 2020 (MA000036) (72 controls), Part 3: Hours of Work – Australia Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award 2020 (MA000036) (17 controls), Part 2: Types of Employment and Classifications – Australia Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award 2020 (MA000036) (15 controls). Every control below carries what it requires and what an assessor expects to see.

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Framework Domains (9)

Part 1: Application and Operation of this Award – Australia Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award 2020 (MA000036)

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Controls in the Part 1: Application and Operation of this Award – Australia Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award 2020 (MA000036) domain of Australia Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award 2020 (MA000036) — 3 controls
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australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::3.3	3.3 Make the award and the NES available to employees	Every employee the award covers must be able to see a copy of the award and of the NES. The employer meets this by placi...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::5	Clause 5: individual flexibility arrangements made and kept correctly	An employer and one employee may agree to vary how the award applies to when work is done, overtime rates, penalty rates...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::7	Clause 7: facilitative provisions agreed with the correct party	Some award clauses let the standard approach be departed from by agreement, and the table in clause 7.2 says who must ag...

Part 2: Types of Employment and Classifications – Australia Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award 2020 (MA000036)

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Controls in the Part 2: Types of Employment and Classifications – Australia Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award 2020 (MA000036) domain of Australia Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award 2020 (MA000036) — 15 controls
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australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::11	Clause 11: part-time employment agreed in writing before it starts	A part-time employee averages fewer than 38 ordinary hours a week with reasonably predictable hours, and must receive at...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::12	Clause 12: casual employees paid the 25% loading, minimum 3 hours, casual overtime rates	A casual must work, on average across any 2 consecutive weeks, fewer than 38 ordinary hours or fewer than 5 days a week....
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::13.10	13.10 No payment by results for apprentices	An apprentice must not be placed on any piece-rate, bonus-on-output or other payment by results system. Apprentices are...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::13.11	13.11 Apprentice lost time made up only as permitted	Unless a State or Territory law says otherwise, for each day an apprentice is absent in a year of the term without the e...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::13.12	13.12 Release apprentices to attend the RTO without loss of pay; training counts as work	The employer must let the apprentice go to a Registered Training Organisation in ordinary working hours for the off-the-...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::13.13	13.13 Reimburse apprentice course fees and textbooks within the time limits	The employer must reimburse the apprentice for fees for prescribed courses and for prescribed textbooks (except those he...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::13.3	13.3 Sprinkler fitting apprentices: arrange travel and accommodation for block release training at no cost	For a sprinkler fitting apprentice who cannot reasonably be expected to travel between home and the training venue each...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::13.4	13.4 and 13.7 Contract apprentices full-time for a nominal 4-year term	Under a training agreement, an apprentice is bound to the employer to learn the plumbing or fire sprinkler fitting trade...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::13.5	13.5 Suspend or cancel a training agreement only on permitted grounds; notice for trainee apprentices	Suspending or cancelling a training agreement is permitted only by mutual consent, or where the employer, because of lac...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::13.6	13.6 Accept a transferred apprentice at the position reached	If all parties to the training agreement consent, an apprentice may move the agreement to another employer. However many...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::13.8	13.8 Keep apprentice ordinary hours within 38	An apprentice's ordinary hours of work must not go above 38. Under 18.2(a) apprentices receive the award's terms and con...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::13.9	13.9 Apprentice overtime and shiftwork restrictions (under 18; training attendance)	Overtime or shiftwork is optional for an apprentice under 18: they cannot be directed to do it. Except in an emergency,...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::14	Clause 14 and Schedule A: classify each employee under the Schedule A definitions	The classification levels that carry the clause 18 minimum rates are defined in Schedule A. The employer must place each...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::8	Clause 8 and 10: engage employees as daily hire, weekly hire or casual and tell them in writing	Each employee must be engaged in one of three categories: daily hire (plumbing and mechanical services classifications o...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::9	Clause 9: daily hire employment restricted and notice of one day	Only employees in plumbing and mechanical services classifications may be daily hire; the clause does not apply to fire...

Part 3: Hours of Work – Australia Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award 2020 (MA000036)

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Controls in the Part 3: Hours of Work – Australia Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award 2020 (MA000036) domain of Australia Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award 2020 (MA000036) — 17 controls
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australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::15.2	15.1 and 15.2 Ordinary hours: 38-hour average over a 20-day, 4-week cycle, 7.00 am to 6.00 pm	Ordinary hours average 38 a week over a 4-week cycle. They are worked across a 20-day cycle, Monday to Friday. The roste...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::15.3	15.3 Early start only by agreement with the employees; adjust breaks and finish	The working day may start at any time from 6.00 am up to 8.00 am only where the employer and its employees agree; workin...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::15.4	15.4 Alternative arrangement of ordinary hours and RDOs with majority agreement	The employer and most of its employees may agree on a different way of arranging ordinary hours and RDOs. The agreement...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::15.5a	15.5(a) Pay and record RDOs; handle public holidays, leave and termination correctly	RDOs are paid from the money accrued under 15.2, and each RDO must be entered in the employer's time and wages records....
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::15.5b	15.5(b) Require work on a scheduled RDO only for listed reasons, paying weekend or holiday penalties	The employer may require work on a scheduled RDO only when needed so that other employees can be productively employed,...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::15.5c	15.5(c) Employers of fewer than 15: overtime instead of RDOs only by written agreement	An employer with fewer than 15 employees, whose employees do not work next to other building and construction workers, m...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::15.5d	15.5(d) Employers of 10 or fewer: substitute RDO and 5 days' notice of change	Where the employer has 10 or fewer employees (whose employees do not work next to other building and construction trades...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::15.5e	15.5(e) Nominate the RDO for employees not alongside other construction workers	For the remaining employees who do not work next to other construction trades, the employer must nominate the RDO as eit...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::15.5f	15.5(f) RDO on the 4th Monday for employees alongside other construction workers	Where employees work alongside other building and construction workers, their RDO is the 4th Monday of the cycle. Employ...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::15A	Clause 15A: do not prevent employees exercising the right to disconnect	Clause 15A gives effect to the right in s 333M of the Act for an employee to refuse, unless unreasonable, to monitor, re...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::16.1	16.1 and 16.2 Unpaid meal break of at least 30 minutes between noon and 1.00 pm; lengthening only on majority request	Between noon and 1.00 pm each employee gets an unpaid meal break lasting 30 minutes or more, during which work and worki...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::16.3	16.3 and 16.4 Paid 10-minute morning rest and paid washing time	Employees get a paid 10-minute rest taken from 9.00 am to 11.00 am. They are also allowed 5 minutes before lunch and 5 b...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::16.5	16.5(a) to (c) Ten consecutive hours off after overtime or weekend and holiday work, or 200% until released	If overtime between the end of one day's work and the start of the next leaves an employee without at least 10 consecuti...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::16.5d	16.5(d) No return within 12 hours after 20 hours of continuous work	An employee who has worked continuously for 20 hours, counting holiday work and apart from breaks allowed by the award,...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::17.1	17.1 Fire sprinkler service work outside hours paid at 200% with minimum payments	A fire sprinkler fitter required to do service work outside ordinary hours for a breakdown, accident or other emergency...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::17.2	17.2 Pay the on-call allowance and phone rental to fire sprinkler fitters on stand-by	A fire sprinkler fitter required to be on call outside ordinary hours must be readily contactable by phone throughout th...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::17.4	17.4 Pay a per kilometre amount when an employee's vehicle is used for call-out	Where, at the employer's request, an employee drives their own vehicle on a call-out, the employer must pay the per kilo...

Part 4: Wages and Allowances – Australia Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award 2020 (MA000036)

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Controls in the Part 4: Wages and Allowances – Australia Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award 2020 (MA000036) domain of Australia Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award 2020 (MA000036) — 72 controls
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australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::18.1	18.1 Pay at least the minimum rate for the classification	No employee may be paid below the minimum weekly or hourly rate for their Schedule A classification, as set out in the t...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::18.2a	18.2(a) Give apprentices all award conditions and allowances at the full rate unless otherwise stated	Apprentices are entitled to every term, condition, amount and allowance elsewhere in the award, including the fares and...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::18.2b	18.2(b) and (c) Pay junior apprentice and trainee apprentice wages at the prescribed percentages	Apprentices other than adult apprentices are paid a percentage of the aggregate of the Tradesperson Level 1 weekly minim...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::18.3	18.3 Adult apprentices: no pay cut on entry and the higher of the two floors	For both sprinkler fitting and plumbing and mechanical adult apprentices, a person already employed by the employer imme...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::18.4-7	18.4 to 18.7 Apply the school-based, peak sports, national training wage and supported wage provisions	School-based apprentices are paid and managed under Schedule G, peak sports apprentices under Schedule H, and employees...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::18.8	18.8 Pay the higher rate for higher duties	Where an employee is assigned work paid at a higher rate than their own classification for more than half a day or shift...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::19-payslip	Notes to clauses 19 and 21: keep pay records and show each allowance separately on payslips	The notes to clauses 19 and 21 draw attention to the Fair Work Regulations 2009 (reg 3.33(3) and reg 3.46(1)(g)), which...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::19.1	19.1 and 19.2 Pay by cash, cheque or transfer and allow bank time	Wages, allowances and other money must be paid by cash, cheque, bank cheque, electronic funds transfer or bank or simila...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::19.3	19.3 Pay by the end of ordinary hours on Thursday each week	Each week's pay must reach the employee, ready to use, by close of ordinary hours on Thursday of that working week. A pa...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::19.4	19.4 and 19.5 Pay promptly when rain stops work on pay day; pay waiting time	If inclement weather ends work on a pay day, the employee must be paid all money due without undue delay. Where an emplo...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::19.6	19.6 Pay final wages and entitlements within 7 days of termination	Within 7 days after the last day of employment, the employer must pay the employee's wages for every complete or partial...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::20.2	20.2 Make superannuation contributions that avoid the SG charge	For each employee, the employer must contribute to a superannuation fund enough to avoid having to pay the superannuatio...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::20.3	20.3 Deduct and remit voluntary employee contributions within 28 days	Subject to fund rules, an employee may authorise in writing a set amount to be paid from post-tax wages into the same fu...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::20.4	20.4 Pay into an award-listed or otherwise permitted fund	Unless superannuation law requires another fund, the employer's contributions and any authorised employee amounts must g...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::20.5	20.5 Continue super on paid leave and up to 52 weeks of work injury absence	Subject to fund rules, the employer must keep making clause 20.2 contributions and paying authorised amounts during any...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.10a	21.10(a) and (b) Living away from home: qualification and employee address	The living away from home provisions apply when an employee is working on a job so far from their usual residence that t...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.10c	21.10(c) Provide board and lodging, the living away allowance, or camp accommodation	For a qualifying employee, the employer must either provide reasonable board and lodging, or pay the weekly living away...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.10d-i	21.10(d)(i) Forward journey to a distant job: time, fares, tool freight and meals	An employee sent, selected or engaged to go to a qualifying distant job does not receive the 21.9 fares and travel allow...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.10d-ii	21.10(d)(ii) Return journey payments and the carriage-home amount	For the return trip the employee is paid the same travel time, fare and meals as on the forward journey, plus the amount...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.10d-iii	21.10(d)(iii) and (iv) Daily fares off-site and the weekend return home allowance	A distant-job employee who must live away from the site (unless adjacent and given transport) must be paid the 21.9(b) f...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.10d-v	21.10(d)(v) Construction camps: reimburse camp costs or pay the camping allowance	Where a project is somewhere with no reasonable board and lodging, the workforce exceeds available accommodation, or con...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.10e	21.10(e)(i) Rest and recreation: pay the return home fare and give written notice before any lapse	An employee on a qualifying distant job may go home for a weekend after 2 months' continuous service and then every 3 mo...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.10e-ii	21.10(e)(ii) to (v) Variable return home, unused fares, flexible RDO and transport at termination	Where the employer agrees, the return home may be taken earlier or later than the date it falls due in special circumsta...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.11b	21.11(a) to (c) Confer within 60 minutes about inclement weather	Inclement weather means rain or abnormal climatic conditions such as hail, high wind, extreme cold or heat, or severe du...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.11d	21.11(d) Pay ordinary time lost to inclement weather up to 32 hours per 4 weeks	Employees must be paid for ordinary hours lost to inclement weather up to a maximum of 32 hours in each 4-week period. T...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.11e	21.11(e) Transfer to unaffected work and reimburse transport	Employees may be moved from a weather-affected spot to a different part of the same site, or to a different site, that i...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.11f	21.11(f) Work in inclement weather only for emergencies, at 200%, with protective clothing	Except as the clause allows, no employee may be required or permitted to work in inclement weather. Employees required t...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.11g	21.11(g) and (h) Agree and note stop and restart times; keep paying during unsafe conditions	When work stops because of inclement weather, the employer's site representative and the employees' representative must...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.11i	21.11(i) Wet weather procedure: limits on keeping employees on site; rain at start time	When wet weather stops work, employees cannot be kept on site after they have lost more than 4 accumulated hours of ordi...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.2	21.1 and 21.2 Pay allowances due and include all-purpose allowances in all payments	The employer must pay each allowance under clause 21 to which the employee is entitled. All-purpose allowances are part...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.3a	21.3(a) Industry allowance for plumbing and mechanical services employees	Every employee in a plumbing and mechanical services classification must receive the weekly industry allowance, the amou...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.3b	21.3(b) Plumbing trade allowance for worker Level 2 and tradesperson and above	An employee at worker Level 2, or tradesperson Level 1 or above, in plumbing and mechanical services must be paid the we...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.3c	21.3(c) Registration allowance for State-registered plumbing tradespeople	A plumbing and mechanical tradesperson who holds registration under the applicable State law is entitled to the weekly r...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.3d	21.3(d) Special fixed allowance for non-apprentice plumbing and mechanical employees	All plumbing and mechanical services employees except apprentices must be paid the weekly special fixed allowance, the a...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.3e	21.3(e) Fire sprinkler fitting trade allowance for tradesperson Level 1 and above	An employee at Sprinkler fitting tradesperson Level 1 or above must receive the weekly sprinkler fitter trade allowance,...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.3f	21.3(f) and (g) Sprinkler industry disability, space, height and dirt money, and sprinkler fitters adjustment	Adult fire sprinkler fitters must receive two additional weekly all-purpose amounts: the industry disability allowance a...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.3h	21.3(h) Leading hand allowance by the number of employees in charge	An employee specifically appointed as a leading hand must be paid an additional weekly amount above the higher of their...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.3i	21.3(i) Lost time (follow-the-job) loading of 3.17% for daily hire employees	A lost time loading of 3.17% is payable to daily hire staff classified in plumbing and mechanical services; which compen...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.4a	21.4(a) Hourly licence allowance for employees acting on their plumber's licence	If an employee is required by the employer to rely on their plumber's licence (or an equivalent) by signing notices and...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.4b	21.4(b) Welding certificate allowance for every hour	An employee asked to hold the qualifications required by State bodies or other authorities for pressure welding, oxy-ace...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.4c	21.4(c) and (d) Lead burning and ship work hourly allowances	A plumbing and mechanical services employee doing lead burning or lead work must receive the hourly lead burning amount,...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.4e	21.4(e) First aid allowance for appointed first aiders	An employee qualified in first aid whom the employer appoints to perform first aid duties on top of their usual work mus...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.4f	21.4(f) Daily service work allowance while fire sprinkler fitting	An employee engaged in service work while fire sprinkler fitting must be paid the daily amount in clause 21.4(f) of the...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.4g	21.4(g) Computing quantities allowance (not for paid leading hands)	An employee regularly required to compute or estimate material quantities for work done by others must be paid the daily...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.4h	21.4(h) Laser safety officer allowance	Where laser safety equipment is used on award work, an employee appointed by the employer as a laser safety officer (qua...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.5	21.5(a) to (c) and 21.7 Incidence allowances: who gets them and the no-duplication rule	Disability allowances for particular tasks, conditions or places do not attract premiums or penalties, and where two or...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.5d	21.5(d) Multistorey allowance by floor level	All on-site employees building or renovating a multistorey building (one that, when complete, has 5 or more storey level...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.6a	21.6(a) Acid plants and chemical works hourly allowance	An employee working on a commissioned production plant in chemical works, or on commissioned acid plants, acid furnaces,...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.6b	21.6(b) Aluminium foil insulation hourly allowance	An employee required to fix aluminium foil insulation to roofs or walls before sheeting must be paid the amount per hour...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.6c	21.6(c) and (d) Asbestos eradication and asbestos protective equipment allowances	An employee removing or otherwise neutralising material made of or containing asbestos receives the hourly asbestos erad...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.6e	21.6(e) Bitumen work hourly allowance	Handling hot asphalt or bitumen, or dipping materials in creosote, attracts the hourly amount in clause 21.6(e) of the c...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.6f	21.6(f) Cold work allowance and 20-minute rest after each 2 hours	An employee working where the temperature has been lowered artificially below 0 degrees Celsius must be paid the hourly...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.6g	21.6(g) Cutting tiles by electric saw hourly allowance	An employee cutting tiles with an electric saw must be paid the hourly amount in clause 21.6(g) of the current award (co...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.6h	21.6(h) Explosive powered tools allowance	An operator of explosive powered tools qualified under State law who is required to use such a tool must be paid the amo...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.6i	21.6(i) Fumes: pay the agreed rate from the date of claim	An employee required to work in the presence of sulphur fumes, other acid fumes or offensive fumes is entitled to whatev...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.6j	21.6(j) Hospitals and morgues allowance with daily minimum	An employee doing repairs, demolition or maintenance in a hospital block or area used to treat patients with infectious...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.6k	21.6(k) Hot work allowance (46 to 54 degrees and above) and rests	An employee working where the temperature is artificially raised to between 46 and 54 degrees Celsius must be paid the l...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.6l	21.6(l) Insulation materials hourly allowance including nearby workers	An employee handling insulating materials such as vermiculite, limpet fibre, slag wool, insulwool, silicate of cotton, g...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.6m	21.6(m) Service shaft allowance by time spent	When installation work requires employees to work inside service shafts, they must be paid, on top of other allowances,...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.6n	21.6(n) Towers allowance above 15 metres	Work on a structure more than 15 metres high, such as a silo, a water or cooling tower, an air shaft (except one above g...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.6o	21.6(o) Toxic substances allowance, proximity rate and washing time	Employees using toxic substances, which include epoxy-based materials and any materials needing a catalyst hardener, rea...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.8a	21.8(a) Reimburse tools or pay the weekly tool allowance	If an employee must, at the employer's requirement, supply tools (other than basic consumables), it must either reimburs...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.8b	21.8(b) Overtime meal allowance or a meal	An employee required to work overtime of at least 1.5 hours after completing ordinary hours must be paid a meal allowanc...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.8c	21.8(c) Supply uniforms and legally required protective clothing and equipment	If the employer requires uniforms, it must supply them and replace them as needed; the employee returns the uniform when...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.8d	21.8(d) Compensate for spoilt, lost or stolen tools and clothes	An employee whose clothes, glasses, hearing aid or tools (not supplied by the employer) are accidentally damaged by sulp...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.9a	21.9(a) and (h) Pay fares and travel time according to the travel table	Fares and travelling time are daily allowances paid according to the table in 21.9(a): both are paid where the employee...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.9b	21.9(b) Daily fares allowance	Where the travel table in 21.9(a) requires it, the employee must be paid the daily fares allowance, the amount in clause...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.9c	21.9(c) Standard travelling time within the 50 km radius; fix the centre of employment	The standard travelling time component is paid per day, for irrigation installers and for plumbing and mechanical servic...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.9d	21.9(d) Additional travelling time for jobs beyond the defined radius	When an employee must work at a site outside the defined radius, the employer must pay an extra daily travelling time co...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.9e	21.9(e) Pay travel time and fares or vehicle allowance for transfers between sites in working hours	An employee moved from one site to another during ordinary hours must be paid ordinary pay for the travel time and, unle...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.9f	21.9(f) Mileage reimbursement for own-vehicle travel beyond the radius (varied 16 September 2026)	An employee who is entitled to additional travelling time under 21.9(d) and uses their own vehicle for that travel must...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::21.9g	21.9(g) Distant work travel: expenses, economy standard, time up to 8 hours	When an employee must travel from their usual workplace or home to a distant job, all travel expenses must be reimbursed...

Part 5: Overtime and Penalty Rates – Australia Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award 2020 (MA000036)

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Controls in the Part 5: Overtime and Penalty Rates – Australia Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award 2020 (MA000036) domain of Australia Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award 2020 (MA000036) — 13 controls
Code	Title	Description
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::22.1a	22.1(a) Pay overtime, weekend and public holiday work at the clause 22.1 percentages	All overtime must be paid as a percentage of the ordinary hourly rate. Full-time and part-time employees: Monday to Frid...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::22.1b	22.1(b) to (g) Weekend and holiday minimum engagements and paid breaks	Saturday work, when required, must be at least 3 hours, and on a Sunday or public holiday at least 4 hours'. Where a con...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::22.2	22.2 Call-back minimum payments (3 hours plumbing, 4 hours sprinkler)	When an employee is called back for overtime after they have left the employer's premises, whether told before or after...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::22.3	22.3 Pay a penalty for working through the meal break	Requiring an employee to keep working through their normal meal break triggers a penalty that runs until the break is al...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::22.4	22.4 Restrict overtime for apprentices	An apprentice under 18 must not be required to work overtime unless they choose to. Except in an emergency, no apprentic...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::22.5	22.5 Provide or pay for transport home after unrostered overtime or holiday work	When an employee finishes unrostered overtime, or work on a prescribed holiday, at a time when reasonable transport is n...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::22.6	22.6 Time off instead of overtime pay: separate written agreement, 6-month limit	By written agreement, an employee may take time off in place of being paid for overtime already worked, with a separate...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::22.7	22.7 Paid 20-minute rest after ordinary finish when working 2 or more hours overtime	An employee required to work overtime of 2 hours or more after their usual finishing time must be allowed a paid 20-minu...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::22.8	22.8 Paid meal breaks on weekend and public holiday work	On Saturday, Sunday and public holiday work, a 20-minute meal break must be allowed after 4 hours, paid at the relevant...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::23.1	23.1 Shiftwork penalties by notice and number of shifts	Where the employer directs ordinary hours between midnight Sunday and midnight Friday as shiftwork, the employee is paid...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::23.2	23.2 and 23.3 Weekend and public holiday penalties for ordinary hours; 4-hour holiday minimum	Ordinary hours the employer directs between midnight Friday and midnight Saturday are paid at 150% for 2 hours and then...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::23.4	23.4 Transport or pay for travel home after a shift	Where an employee finishes a shift at a time when reasonable transport is not available, the employer must provide trans...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::23.5	23.5 to 23.7 Penalties not cumulative; breaks and overtime for penalty-rate workers	Only one penalty rate is payable at a time, and penalty rates do not apply where overtime is payable. Employees directed...

Part 6: Leave and Public Holidays – Australia Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award 2020 (MA000036)

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Controls in the Part 6: Leave and Public Holidays – Australia Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award 2020 (MA000036) domain of Australia Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award 2020 (MA000036) — 7 controls
Code	Title	Description
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::24.2	24.2 Extra week of annual leave for employees working or on call on 26 or more weekends	On top of the NES annual leave, an employee who works, or is required to be on call, on any part of 26 or more weekends...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::24.3	24.3 Pay 17.5% annual leave loading on rates, all-purpose allowances and fares and travel	In addition to annual leave pay under s 90 of the Act, the employer must pay a 17.5% loading on that payment, worked out...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::24.4	24.4 Christmas and New Year shutdown: 2 months' written notice and written reasonable direction	An employer that plans to close all or part of its operation over Christmas and New Year to give annual leave to all or...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::24.5	24.5 Annual leave in advance only by signed written agreement	Paid annual leave may be taken before it accrues if employer and employee agree in writing. The agreement must state the...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::24.6	24.6 Cash out annual leave only under separate signed agreements within limits	Paid annual leave may only be cashed out under a written agreement, one for each cash-out, stating the amount and the pa...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::24.7	24.7 to 24.9 Manage excessive leave accruals by conferral, direction or employee notice	An employee has an excessive accrual if they have more than 8 weeks' annual leave (10 weeks for a continuous shiftworker...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::29	Clause 29: public holidays and agreed substitution	Public holiday entitlements come from the NES. By agreement between the employer and an individual employee, a different...

Part 7: Workplace Delegates, Consultation and Dispute Resolution – Australia Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award 2020 (MA000036)

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Controls in the Part 7: Workplace Delegates, Consultation and Dispute Resolution – Australia Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award 2020 (MA000036) domain of Australia Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award 2020 (MA000036) — 6 controls
Code	Title	Description
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::29A.5	29A.5 and 29A.6 Allow delegates to represent and communicate with eligible workers	A workplace delegate may represent eligible workers who want it in consultation about major change and roster or hours c...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::29A.7	29A.7 Provide delegates access to workplace facilities	The employer must give a workplace delegate access to or use of: a fit-for-purpose private room or area accessible to th...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::29A.8	29A.8 Paid training time for delegates (not small business)	An employer that is not a small business employer must give a workplace delegate access to up to 5 days' paid time in no...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::30	Clause 30: consult about major workplace change	When the employer has definitely decided on major changes to production, programs, organisation, structure or technology...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::31	Clause 31: consult about changes to regular rosters or ordinary hours	Before changing an employee's regular roster or ordinary hours (other than for employees with irregular, sporadic or unp...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::32	Clause 32: follow the dispute resolution procedure	For a dispute about an award matter or the NES, the parties must first try to resolve it at the workplace between the em...

Part 8: Termination of Employment and Industry Specific Redundancy Scheme – Australia Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award 2020 (MA000036)

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Controls in the Part 8: Termination of Employment and Industry Specific Redundancy Scheme – Australia Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award 2020 (MA000036) domain of Australia Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award 2020 (MA000036) — 6 controls
Code	Title	Description
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::33.1	33.1 Employee notice of resignation and limits on deducting for short notice	Employees, except those excluded under subsections 123(1) and (3) of the Act, must give notice based on continuous servi...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::33.2	33.2 Allow up to one day paid job search leave during employer notice	Where the employer has given notice of termination, the employee must be allowed up to one day off without loss of pay t...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::34.3	34.3 Pay redundancy or severance pay on the industry scale	A redundant employee must receive redundancy or severance pay for all continuous service: service of 1 year but under 2...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::34.4	34.4 Offset redundancy fund benefits only on the stated conditions	Where the employer owes redundancy pay under clause 34 and the employee gets a benefit out of a redundancy pay fund, the...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::34.5	34.5 Employee leaving during redundancy notice keeps redundancy pay	An employee under notice of termination under clause 34 may leave during the notice period and remains entitled to claus...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::34.6	34.6 Recognise prior service on transfer of business for redundancy	Where a business (including a trade, process, occupation or part of one) is transferred, conveyed, assigned or succeeded...

Schedules – Australia Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award 2020 (MA000036)

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Controls in the Schedules – Australia Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award 2020 (MA000036) domain of Australia Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award 2020 (MA000036) — 3 controls
Code	Title	Description
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::G	Schedule G: school-based apprentices paid and released as required	A school-based apprentice is one completing an apprenticeship under the schedule while at secondary school, under a trai...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::H	Schedule H: peak sports apprenticeships approved and paid correctly	A peak sports apprenticeship is available only to a person contracted to play at peak level for a club or team in a comp...
australia-plumbing-and-fire-sprinklers-award-2020-ma000036::I	Schedule I: supported wage system applied, documented and lodged	An employee who, because of disability, cannot perform the full range of duties at the required competence and meets the...

What is Australia Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award 2020 (MA000036) and who does it apply to?

Australia Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award 2020 (MA000036) is a compliance framework from Australia (national system employers) with 9 domains and 142 controls. The modern award setting minimum employment conditions for plumbing and fire sprinkler work in Australia: coverage, employment types, apprentices, classifications, ordinary hours and rostered days off, minimum rates, allowances (tools, travel, fares, distant work, licences, special allowances), overtime, shiftwork, leave, consultation, disputes, termination and redundancy. Rates are named, not quoted: the figures change every 1 July. It is used by organisations to establish and maintain compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements.

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Australia Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award 2020 (MA000036) has 142 controls organised across 9 domains. The largest domains are Part 4: Wages and Allowances – Australia Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award 2020 (MA000036) (72 controls), Part 3: Hours of Work – Australia Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award 2020 (MA000036) (17 controls), Part 2: Types of Employment and Classifications – Australia Plumbing and Fire Sprinklers Award 2020 (MA000036) (15 controls). Each control defines specific requirements that organisations must implement to achieve compliance.

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