Road Transport Award Non-Continuous Shiftworker Rates and Overtime 2026/27

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What UpSheets Calculates Automatically

• Ordinary hours from imported start and finish times
• Overtime tiers based on hours worked
• Saturday penalty and overtime rates
• Sunday penalty and overtime rates
• Public holiday penalty rates
• Minimum engagement payments
• Shift gap handling
• Automatic allowance calculations where configured

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Pay Rates and Smart Formula Rules

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What Requires Customer Configuration

• Variant assignment: Choose the Smart Formula variant that matches each employee’s work pattern.
• Classification selection: Assign the correct classification level for each employee.
• Public holidays: Configure public holidays for your organisation so public-holiday rules apply on the correct dates.

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Manual Allowances

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How to Use This Rule Set in UpSheets

1. Copy the Road Transport Award rule set from the Award Library and select the Non-Continuous Shiftworker variant during review.
2. Assign the correct classification and employment type to each employee using this variant.
3. Simulate representative shifts, then publish and assign the rule set to affected employees.

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Assumptions and Limitations

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Assumptions

• Default day-worker ordinary hours are Monday to Friday between 5:30 am and 6:30 pm with an 8-hour daily cap and 38 ordinary hours per week (clauses 13.1, 13.4, 13.5, 13.6(a)).
• Oil day workers use 6:30 am to 5:30 pm Monday to Friday and 35 ordinary hours per week (clauses 14.2 to 14.4).
• Saturday is outside default ordinary hours, so Saturday uses clause 21.1 overtime tiers (150% first 2 hours then 200%) standing alone for the day rather than spread bands.
• Sunday uses clause 23.1(b) and 23.1(d) 200% standing alone.
• Public holiday default rates are the clause 23.2 any other public holiday figures (ordinary-range 150% inside the weekday spread, 250% outside ordinary hours); Good Friday and Christmas Day 200%/300% are not auto-detected.
• Casual overtime follows clause 11.4 (overtime percentages of the unloaded minimum plus 10% of that minimum, with no 25% casual loading on overtime), which MAPD publishes as 160%/210%; against the loaded casual base those multiples are 1.28 and 1.68.
• Casual Sunday 225% and public holiday 275% of the unloaded minimum are modelled as 1.8 and 2.2 on the loaded casual base.
• Casual public holiday hours use the all-day 275% rate from clause 23.2(e) rather than an inside/outside-spread split.
• Casual ordinary penalties that already include loading in MAPD (afternoon 142.5%, night 155%, non-continuous 175%/225%, Saturday 175%) use those percentages divided by 1.25.
• Afternoon shift is 117.5% and night shift is 130% Monday to Friday (clause 22.3).
• Non-continuous afternoon or night (fewer than 5 consecutive shifts) is a separate variant at 150% first 3 hours and 200% after under clause 22.10; that weekday 150%/200% band replaces a separate 8-hour daily overtime line on the variant because after 3 hours the clause 22.10 rate is already 200%.
• Oil shiftworkers share the Shiftworker, Night Shiftworker, and Non-Continuous Shiftworker variants (clause 22.2 38-hour week) with oil hourly rates on the same schedule.
• Weekly overtime uses 38 hours for transport/facility and oil shiftwork (clauses 13.1 and 22.2) and 35 hours for oil day workers (clause 14.2).
• Minimum payments are 4 hours for part-time each day (clause 10.7), casual each engagement (clause 11.3), and Saturday, Sunday, and public holiday work (clauses 23.1(c) and 23.2).
• Saturday minimum engagement is tiered 150%/200% to match Saturday overtime.
• Clause 21.4 less than 10 consecutive hours between duties is a single GAP rule at 200% for full-time and part-time employees.
• All 35 operative MAPD allowances are modelled as MANUAL rate keys.

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Not Supported by This Rule Set

• Agreed alteration of the ordinary spread by one hour at each end
• Agreed Saturday or Sunday ordinary hours
• Automatic detection of 5 consecutive afternoon or night shifts
• Averaging ordinary hours over 2, 3, or 4 week cycles and RDOs
• Call-back minimum of 4 hours
• Christmas Day falling on Saturday or Sunday with a substituted holiday
• Early start 130% for newspaper, meat, poultry, or fish-fruit-vegetable work
• Good Friday and Christmas Day public holiday rates
• Oil rural distribution 3-day Monday to Saturday roster
• Supported wage system
• Time off instead of payment for overtime
• Unpaid meal and rest break timing

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Official sources

• Award text: Fair Work Commission - MA000038
• Pay rates and allowances: Fair Work pay guides

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Other Road Transport Award Variants

• Day Worker
• Night Shiftworker
• Oil Day Worker
• Shiftworker