The Horticulture Award and Pastoral Award have new definitions and minimum pay rates for entry-level classifications from 1 April 2025.
This follows changes to entry-level classifications in awards.
What's changing
From 1 April 2025, the below changes apply:
Horticulture Award and Pastoral Award
For the Horticulture Award and Pastoral Award, there are new time limits for introductory classifications.
Horticulture Award
There are new indicative tasks for Level 2 employees under the Horticulture Award.
Pastoral Award
The Pastoral Award has:
- new minimum pay rates for Piggery attendant Level 2 employees in the Pastoral Award
- new ongoing classifications for station hands, station cooks and station cook's offsiders in the Pastoral Award.
The Fair Work Commission (the national workplace relations tribunal) has made changes to these 2 awards as part of its Review of C14 and C13 rates in modern awards.
What to do now
To help you respond to the changes, we recommend you:
- read our detailed news article to understand all these changes to awards: Changes to entry-level classifications in awards
- access our new industry information and examples about the introductory classification changes from our Pay and piece rates page
- go to an updated version of your award from our List of awards page to read new classification rules
- download an updated pay guide or calculate new introductory pay rates using our Pay and Conditions Tool.
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