Award interpretation is the process of applying the correct modern award rules — classifications, pay rates, allowances, penalties and overtime — to each employee so payroll is accurate and compliant. Employment Star interprets and configures modern awards in Employment Hero for Australian businesses, including complex awards like SCHADS and the Clerks Award.
Australia’s modern awards are detailed and change regularly. Getting classifications, broken shifts, sleepovers, allowances, penalties and overtime wrong leads to underpayments — and underpayments are costly to remediate and damaging to trust. Many payroll errors trace back to award interpretation, not the software.
Call 02 7803 7879 or send an enquiry. Award interpretation and configuration is charged from $195/hr ex-GST or scoped as a fixed-price project. See also our payroll audit and NDIS payroll services and outsourced payroll.
Applying the correct modern award — classifications, rates, allowances, penalties and overtime — to each employee so payroll is accurate and compliant.
Yes. SCHADS is a specialty — classifications, broken shifts, sleepovers, allowances and penalty rates, configured correctly in Employment Hero.
Yes. We audit previous pay runs for award-related underpayments, correct the configuration and help you remediate compliantly.
Yes — we build award rules, rates, allowances and penalties into your Employment Hero pay runs and test them before go-live.
From $195/hr ex-GST, or as a fixed-price project scoped after a short call.
Talk to Employment Star about award interpretation — book a free discovery call.
