How do I set up payroll software for the Security Services Industry Award 2020 MA000016?

Efficiently manage your payroll for the Security Services Industry Award 2020 MA000016, while ensuring full compliance with an increase in the Fair Work Commission National Minimum Wage and Award Rates.

e-PayDay Go® Award-centric Single Touch Payroll (STP) software includes the Security Services Industry Award 2020 [MA000016], which covers employers in the security services industry and their employees who fit within the classifications of the award.

The Security Award also covers labour hire and group training businesses and their employees who are placed with an organisation in the security services industry.

The security services industry means:

• patrolling, protecting, screening, watching or guarding people and/or property (including cash and other valuables) by physical or electronic means

• crowd, event or venue control through physical or electronic means

• body guarding or close personal protection services

• traffic control associated with the above activities

• operating a security control room or monitoring centre

• loss prevention.

‘Physical means’ can include the use of patrol dogs or the possession or use of a firearm.

Examples of employees covered by the Security Award include:

• security guards

• crowd controllers

• loss prevention officers.

Check the award for complete information on who is covered and the classification descriptions.

Who the Security Award doesn't cover.

The following employers and employees are not covered by the Security Award:

• cash-in-transit (unless this is only a minor or incidental part of an employee’s duties)

• operating prisons, correctional or other detention facilities

• installing, maintaining or repairing electronic alarms and/or monitoring systems

• installing, maintaining, repairing or replenishing ATMs

• security employees employed by an employer not in the security industry (eg. an employer who operates a retail business).

Check the award for complete information on coverage and classifications.

How do I update the Security Services Industry Award 2020 MA000016 when the Fair Work Commission National Minimum Wage and Award Rate increases?

The e-PayDay Go® Update Awards tool enables you to process the Fair Work Commission National Minimum Award Rate increases. With this simple but powerful tool, you can choose whether to adjust the above-award rate in accordance with the rise or absorb the change. This functionality streamlines the important task of changing the hourly rate to align with revisions established by the FWC.