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FWC · award text

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

© Commonwealth of Australia 2026. Fair Work Commission. Consolidated Award text hosted by the Fair Work Ombudsman. Quotations retain source wording; whitespace/table formatting is normalised for display. Personal/non-commercial or internal use only under the FWC copyright notice. Quick Award explanations are separate AI source-checked text; no government endorsement.

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FWC copyright notice: reproduction of unaltered Commission material retaining the notice for personal, non-commercial use or use within an organisation. This release is restricted to local/personal or internal use. No general public-redistribution permission is recorded. Official copyright statement was available via the official indexed page; direct page fetch returned403.
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2026-10-25T07:36:26.698Z
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FWC · award text

Poultry Processing Award 2020 — FWC Award text hosted by the Fair Work Ombudsman ↗

© Commonwealth of Australia 2026. Fair Work Commission. Consolidated Award text hosted by the Fair Work Ombudsman. Quotations retain source wording; whitespace/table formatting is normalised for display. Personal/non-commercial or internal use only under the FWC copyright notice. Quick Award explanations are separate AI source-checked text; no government endorsement.

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FWC copyright notice: reproduction of unaltered Commission material retaining the notice for personal, non-commercial use or use within an organisation. This release is restricted to local/personal or internal use. No general public-redistribution permission is recorded. Official copyright statement was available via the official indexed page; direct page fetch returned403.
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2026-10-25T07:36:26.698Z
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FWC · award text

Meat Industry Award 2020 — FWC Award text hosted by the Fair Work Ombudsman ↗

© Commonwealth of Australia 2026. Fair Work Commission. Consolidated Award text hosted by the Fair Work Ombudsman. Quotations retain source wording; whitespace/table formatting is normalised for display. Personal/non-commercial or internal use only under the FWC copyright notice. Quick Award explanations are separate AI source-checked text; no government endorsement.

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FWC copyright notice: reproduction of unaltered Commission material retaining the notice for personal, non-commercial use or use within an organisation. This release is restricted to local/personal or internal use. No general public-redistribution permission is recorded. Official copyright statement was available via the official indexed page; direct page fetch returned403.
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2026-10-25T07:36:26.698Z
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FWO · official guidance

Final pay ↗

© Fair Work Ombudsman www.fairwork.gov.au. Licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode.en. Quotations retain wording with whitespace normalised. Quick Award explanations are separate adaptations; no endorsement.

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FWO-authored text under CC BY-NC 4.0, subject to exclusions, attribution and modification notices. Only the selected FWO guidance paragraphs are covered; this does not license FWC material.
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2026-10-27T15:33:37.820Z
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FWO · official guidance

Payment for annual leave ↗

© Fair Work Ombudsman www.fairwork.gov.au. Licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode.en. Quotations retain wording with whitespace normalised. Quick Award explanations are separate adaptations; no endorsement.

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FWO-authored text under CC BY-NC 4.0, subject to exclusions, attribution and modification notices. Only the selected FWO guidance paragraphs are covered; this does not license FWC material.
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2026-10-27T15:33:38.160Z
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FWC · award text

Miscellaneous Award 2020 — incorporated National Training Wage Schedule E ↗

© Commonwealth of Australia 2026. Fair Work Commission. Consolidated Award text hosted by the Fair Work Ombudsman. Quotations retain source wording; whitespace/table formatting is normalised for display. Personal/non-commercial or internal use only under the FWC copyright notice. Quick Award explanations are separate AI source-checked text; no government endorsement.

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FWC copyright notice: reproduction of unaltered Commission material retaining the notice for personal, non-commercial use or use within an organisation. This release is restricted to local/personal or internal use. No general public-redistribution permission is recorded. Official copyright statement was available via the official indexed page; direct page fetch returned403.
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2026-10-27T15:33:38.366Z
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FWO · pay guide

Pay Guide - Pastoral Award ↗

© Fair Work Ombudsman www.fairwork.gov.au. Pay Guide - Pastoral Award. https://calculate.fairwork.gov.au/Download/AwardSummary?awardCode=ma000035&fileType=pdf. CC BY-NC 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode. PDF text is extracted and whitespace normalised; no government endorsement.

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FWO-authored pay guide under the recorded CC BY-NC 4.0 terms; local/internal non-commercial reference only. Full raw PDF retained; extracted whitespace/line layout is normalised.
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2026-10-27T23:25:48.274Z
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FWO · pay guide

Pay Guide - Poultry Processing Award ↗

© Fair Work Ombudsman www.fairwork.gov.au. Pay Guide - Poultry Processing Award. https://calculate.fairwork.gov.au/Download/AwardSummary?awardCode=ma000074&fileType=pdf. CC BY-NC 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode. PDF text is extracted and whitespace normalised; no government endorsement.

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FWO-authored pay guide under the recorded CC BY-NC 4.0 terms; local/internal non-commercial reference only. Full raw PDF retained; extracted whitespace/line layout is normalised.
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2026-10-27T23:25:49.719Z
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FWO · official guidance

Penalty rates for retail meat establishments, load out areas and cleaners in the Meat Award ↗

© Fair Work Ombudsman www.fairwork.gov.au. Library article K600709: Penalty rates for retail meat establishments, load out areas and cleaners in the Meat Award. https://library.fairwork.gov.au/viewer/?krn=K600709. CC BY-NC 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode. Displayed wording is extracted and whitespace normalised; no government endorsement.

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FWO-authored official Library article under the recorded CC BY-NC 4.0 terms; local/internal non-commercial reference only. Full raw HTML retained privately; displayed wording excludes navigation and formatting is normalised.
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2026-10-28T11:38:41.863Z
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FWO · pay guide

Pay Guide - Meat Industry Award ↗

© Fair Work Ombudsman www.fairwork.gov.au. Pay Guide - Meat Industry Award. https://calculate.fairwork.gov.au/Download/AwardSummary?awardCode=ma000059&fileType=pdf. CC BY-NC 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode. PDF text is extracted and whitespace normalised; no government endorsement.

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FWO-authored pay guide under the recorded CC BY-NC 4.0 terms; local/internal non-commercial reference only. Full raw PDF retained; extracted whitespace/line layout is normalised.
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2026-10-28T11:38:41.863Z
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