Creating a New Wage Agreement Wizard
To have your employees costs in WFM taking into account public holiday, overtime, and penalty rates, you will be required to setup a Wage Agreement.
An example of an agreement is the Fast Food Industry Award.
To create a new wage agreement, click on “+ New Wage Agreement” on the Wage Agreement page. This will launch the wage agreement setup wizard. (Note: Navigating out of the wizard will exit without saving changes.)
Please note: If you are looking to update the rates and conditions for an existing agreement, for situations such as rate updates at the end of financial year, you will need to create a new revision rather than a new agreement. Please visit this page for more information.
Agreement Name
Enter the name of your wage agreement in the text field to the right of “Name”. Click on the selection field to the right of “Country” and select the country which this agreement applies to. Click on the “Next” button to move on to the next step in the wizard.
Regional Availability
You can customize the eligibility of this agreement based on the locations the shifts are based in. For example if your employees cross state lines and get paid under a different award or agreement. If you do not have this apply just click next, and leave the chosen items list blank.
Starting Date
Set the start date of the current revision of the wage agreement you will be creating. In Australia this is typically the first day of the first full pay run in that period. Only enter a finish date if this agreement ends on a specific date and will not be renewed. We will talk more about updating the rates for a new financial year on this page:
Conditions
A list of default conditions are presented, these conditions contain the most common rules found in most classifications and awards within Australia. Selected conditions are highlighted green, select and deselect the conditions simply by clicking on the condition(s). It will be possible to later add, delete or edit conditions after you complete this wizard. Click on the “Next” button to move on to the next step in the wizard.
Confirmation
This page will display the wage agreement setup summary to review all the configuration set during the wizard. Configurations can be changed by clicking on any of the “Change” tool to the right of the section headings or clicking on the wizard headers at the top of the page. Click on the “Create” button to complete the wizard and create a wage agreement with the configuration given.
Once your agreement has been created, you can get started on adding classifications! For more information on how you can add classifications to your agreements, please visit this page.