How do I set up payroll software for the Pastoral Award MA000035?

Efficiently manage your payroll for the Pastoral Award MA000035, while ensuring full compliance with an increase in the Fair Work Commission National Minimum Wage and Award Rates.

e-PayDay Go® Single Touch Payroll software includes the Pastoral Award [MA000035], which covers employers in the pastoral industry and their employees who fall within its classifications.

The pastoral industry means employers and employees who work in (or are connected to) the:​

• managing, breeding, rearing or grazing of livestock or poultry

• shearing and crutching of sheep on farms

• classing and pressing of wool on farms

• dairying work

• hatchery work

• sowing, raising or harvesting of broadacre field crops and other crops grown as part of any of the mentioned farms or properties

• treating of land concerning the work above, or

• clearing, fencing, well sinking, dam sinking or trenching on any farm or property above.

• Livestock refers to all animals used in primary production, including insects.

Broadacre field crops means grains, seeds, grasses, silage, legumes, fibre, flowers, and other crops grown as part of a broadacre mixed farming enterprise.

Examples of employees covered by the Pastoral Award include:

• station hands

• piggery workers

• dairy operators

• poultry workers

• shearers and crutchers

• station cooks.

The Pastoral Award also covers labour hire businesses and their employees who are placed with an organisation in the pastoral industry. 

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

Who the Pastoral Award doesn't cover.

The following are examples of employers who are not covered by the Pastoral Award:

• employers and employees in the wine industry

• sugar farming or sugar cane growing and related activities

• silviculture and afforestation

• any work in or connected with producing or processing fish, aquaculture and marine products

• farming horticultural crops, such as vegetables, fruits, grains, seeds, nuts and flowers, which aren’t mentioned above as a broadacre field crop.

Check the award for full information on coverage and classifications.

How do I update the Pastoral Award MA000035 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.