How do I set up payroll software for the Road Transport and Distribution Award MA000038?

Efficiently manage your payroll for the Road Transport and Distribution Award MA000038, with an increase in the Fair Work Commission National Minimum Wage and Award Rates.

e-PayDay Go® Single Touch Payroll software includes the Road Transport and Distribution Award [MA000038], which covers employers in the road transport and distribution industry and their employees who fit within the classifications of the award.

The road transport and distribution industry includes:

• transporting by road livestock, goods, wares, merchandise, materials or other things in any form (defined below)

• receiving, handling or storing goods, wares, merchandise, materials or other things in any form at a distribution facility

• storing and distributing livestock, goods, wares, merchandise, materials or other things in any form, in connection with air freight forwarding and customs clearance

• mobile food vending

• distributing and relocating new or used vehicles requiring the driving of the vehicle itself (applies from the first full pay period starting on or after 1 July 2018).

‘In any form’ means in a raw or natural state, wholly or partly manufactured, or as a solid, liquid or gas.

‘Goods, wares, merchandise and any other things’ includes:

• crude oil

• gas condensate

• petrol and petroleum products

• dairy products

• wholesale meat

• quarried materials.

The Road Transport Award also covers employees doing road transport or distribution work for an employer in a different industry, if the employer isn’t covered by another award that has a classification for the employee.

Examples of employees covered by the Road Transport Award include:

• yardpersons, general hands, driver’s assistants and loaders

• truck, forklift, concrete mixer and crane drivers

• transport riggers

• distribution facility employees

• furniture remover’s assistants.

Drivers are also covered by the Road Transport Award for the time they are performing shorter distance work if they:

• normally work as a long distance driver under the Road Transport (Long Distance) Award, and

• sometimes do short distance work.

The Road Transport Award also covers labour hire businesses and their employees who are placed with an organisation in the road transport and distribution industry.

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

Who the Road Transport and Distribution Award doesn't cover.

Employers and employees in the following industries or activities are not covered by the Road Transport Award:

• chauffeuring

• long distance driving (eg. interstate driving), if this is the principal or usual activity.

• Drivers who normally do work covered by the Road Transport Award but sometimes do longer distance work will be covered by the Road Transport (Long Distance) Award while they do long distance work.

The Road Transport Award doesn’t cover employers and employees when they are covered by one of the following awards:

• Mining Award

• Road Transport (Long Distance) Award (while doing long distance work)

• Transport (Cash) Award

• Waste Award.

Check the award for full information on coverage and classifications.

How do I update the Road Transport and Distribution Award MA000038 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.