Pastoral Award 2020 — FWC Award text hosted by the Fair Work Ombudsman

FWC · MA000035 · Clause 52

52. Special allowances (other than Woolclassers and Shearing shed experts)

[Varied by PR724570, PR729290, PR729479, PR740884, PR762145, PR762308, PR773920, PR774088, PR786573, PR799316, PR799473]

NOTE 1: Regulations 3.33(3) and 3.46(1)(g) of Fair Work Regulations 2009 set out the requirements for pay records and the content of payslips including the requirement to separately identify any allowance paid.

NOTE 2: See Schedule C—Summary of Monetary Allowances for a summary of monetary allowances and method of adjustment.

52.1 Allowance where sleeping quarters are not provided

If the employee does not reside at their home or usual place of residence and is forced to obtain and pay for sleeping quarters away from the employer’s premises because the employer is unable to provide sleeping quarters at the premises for the employee during a shearing or crutching, the employer will:

(a) arrange for sleeping quarters for the employee to be supplied elsewhere at the employer’s expense; or

[52.1(b) varied by PR729290, PR740716, PR762145, PR773920, PR786573, PR799316 ppc 01Jul26]

(b) pay to the employee an allowance of $68.59 per night during the employee’s employment that the employee is forced to obtain and pay for sleeping quarters; and

(c) provide or pay for the transport of the employee between the sleeping quarters and the shed where the distance is one kilometre or more walking distance between the employee’s sleeping quarters and the shed.

[52.2 varied by PR729290, PR740716, PR762145, PR773920, PR786573, PR799316 ppc 01Jul26]

52.2 An allowance of $22.63 per hour will be payable to the employee for all time in excess of one hour spent travelling between the sleeping quarters and the shed.

52.3 If an employee resides at their home or usual place of residence and travels daily to the shed during a shearing or crutching, the following provisions will apply:

(a) Travelling allowance—Shearers or Crutchers only

[52.3(a) varied by PR729290, PR740716, PR762145, PR773920, PR786573, PR799316 ppc 01Jul265]

A travelling allowance of $20.36 per day will paid to an employee where the distance between the shed and the employee’s place of residence exceeds 65 kilometres by the most direct practicable route upon which the employee so travels.

(b) Vehicle allowance—all employees

[52.3(b) varied by PR724570, PR729479, PR740884, PR762308, PR774088, PR799473 ppc 01Jul26]

If an employee, by prior arrangement and agreement with an employer, uses their own motor vehicle to travel to and from the shed, the employee will be paid $1.00 per kilometre for travel by the most direct practicable route between the shed and the employee’s normal place of residence.

52.4 Clause 52.3(a) and 52.3(b) of this award will not apply in any case where the employer offers the employee suitable accommodation at the shed and the employee chooses not to use it.

52.5 Breakdown of machinery—allowance for delays and termination of agreements

(a) If a Shearer or Crutcher or a piecework Woolpresser:

(i) is stopped from working through a breakage or failure of machinery, except from any cause over which the employer has no control, and

[52.5(a)(ii) varied by PR729290, PR740716, PR762145, PR773920, PR786573, PR799316 ppc 01Jul26]

(ii) the total period of all such stoppages which occur in any one week exceeds 2 hours working time,

the employer will pay to the employee an allowance at the rate of:

 $239.98 per day in the case of not found employees and

 $197.93 per day in the case of found employees,

for every day or part of a day beyond 2 hours’ of working time in any one week as long as there are sheep fit to shear.

(b) The not found breakdown rate is calculated as the old breakdown rate multiplied by the new Shearers rate per 100 divided by the old Shearers rate per 100 (less found deduction if found employee).

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26 Oct 2026

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