The updates to the Storage Services and Wholesale Award Managed Template are now available in your account.

No action is required to receive the improvements in your account. The update will occur automatically.

New classifications have been implemented into the Storage Services and Wholesale Managed Template which automatically facilitate the incremental rate increases for the Grade 1 Storeworker and Level 1 Wholesale classifications.

Clause 15.1 sets out minimum rates for Grade 1 Storeworker and Level 1 Wholesale employees:

Previously, separate classification tags facilitated the different rates for these classifications:

This meant that Grade 1 Storeworker and Level 1 Wholesale employees needed to be manually reclassified at three and twelve months of engagement.

For example, an employee would start on the Grade 1 Storeworker Intial classification, then at three months they would be reclassified to Grade 1 Storeworker 3 Months and reclassified again at twelve months to Grade 1 Storeworker 12 Months.

Moving forward, employees will only need to be classified once at the beginning of their employment and the same classification will now automatically apply the On commencement, After 3 months and After 12 months rates.

The employee's hourly rate will be determined based on the employment start date entered in the employee profile.

Please review any employees configured on one of the soon to be retired Grade 1 Storeworker or Level 1 Wholesale classifications and reclassify them to one of the new classifications that facilitate the automatic rate progression.

For further details on reclassifying staff in Tanda, please see here.

The Storage Services and Wholesale Award details scenarios where the normal spread of working hours can be varied up to one hour forward or one hour back by agreement.

📜 13.2 Spread of Ordinary Hours

(a) The spread of hours (7.00am to 5.30pm) may be moved up to one hour forward or one hour back by agreement between an employer and;

(i) the majority of employees at the workplace;

(ii) the majority of employees in a discrete section of the workplace; or

(iii) an individual employee

(b) Different agreements may be reached with the majority of employees in different sections of the workplace or with different individual employees.

By default, day workers will be subject to the ordinary hours span detailed in clause 13.2(a).

If an employee has agreed to bring the ordinary hour span one hour forward or back, they may be configured with one of the following special award condition tags.

When the Ordinary Hours Agreement 6am-4.30pm tag is configured on the profile, the employee will be able to work ordinary hours between 6am and 4.30pm.

All time worked outside of this span will incur overtime.

Please see the below example where the employee has works past 4.30pm:

When the Ordinary Hours Agreement 8am-6.30pm tag is configured on the profile, the employee will be able to work ordinary hours between 8am and 6.30pm.

All time worked outside of this span will incur overtime.

Please see the below example where the employee has works past 6.30pm:

The Storage Services and Wholesale Award prescribes the agreement to vary the span of an afternoon shift one hour forward or one hour back by agreement.

📜 20.1 Definitions

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(b) Afternoon shift means a shift finishing after 6.00pm and at or before midnight.

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(d) The spread of hours over which afternoon shift may be worked may be moved up to one hour forward or one hour back by agreement between an employer and:

(i) the majority of employees in the workplace

(ii) the majority of employees in a discrete section of the workplace.

Different agreements may be reached with the majority of employees in different sections of the workplace.

By default, shiftworkers will be subject to the afternoon shift parameters detailed in clause 20.1(b).

If an employee has agreed to move the afternoon shift span one hour forward or back, they may be configured with one of the following special award condition tags.

When the Afternoon Shift Agreement 5pm-11pm tag is configured on the employee profile, an afternoon shift will be a shift that finishes after 5pm and at or before 11pm.

When the Afternoon Shift Agreement 7pm-1am tag is configured on the employee profile, an afternoon shift will be a shift that finishes after 7pm and at or before 11pm.