From the following dates the employer must pay no less than the minimum wage for the classification in this award minus the specified proportion of the transitional amount: First full pay period on or after 1 July 2010 80% 1 July 2011 60% 1 July 2012 40% 1 July 2013 20% The employer must apply any increase in minimum wages in this award resulting from an annual wage review. These provisions cease to operate from the beginning of the first full pay period on or after 1 July 2014. Minimum wages existing minimum wage higher – The following transitional arrangements apply to an employer which, immediately prior to 1 January 2010: was obliged, but for the operation of an agreement-based transitional instrument or an enterprise agreement would have been obliged, or if it had been an employer in the industry or of the occupations covered by this award would have been obliged by a transitional minimum wage instrument and/or an award-based transitional instrument to pay a minimum wage higher than that in this award for any classification of employee. In this clause minimum wage includes: a minimum wage for a junior employee, an employee to whom training arrangements apply and an employee with a disability; a piecework rate; and any applicable industry allowance. Prior to the first full pay period on or after 1 July 2010 the employer must pay no less than the minimum wage in the relevant transitional minimum wage instrument and/or award-based transitional instrument for the classification concerned. The difference between the minimum wage for the classification in this award and the minimum wage in clause A.3.3 is referred to as the transitional amount.
From the following dates the employer must pay no less than the minimum wage for the classification in this award minus the specified proportion of the transitional amount: First full pay period on or after 1 July 2010 80% 1 July 2011 60% 1 July 2012 40% 1 July 2013 20% The employer must apply any increase in minimum wages in this award resulting from an annual wage review. These provisions cease to operate from the beginning of the first full pay period on or after 1 July 2014. Minimum wages – existing minimum wage higher The following transitional arrangements apply to an employer which, immediately prior to 1 January 2010: was obliged, but for the operation of an agreement-based transitional instrument or an enterprise agreement would have been obliged, or if it had been an employer in the industry or of the occupations covered by this award would have been obliged by a transitional minimum wage instrument and/or an award-based transitional instrument to pay a minimum wage higher than that in this award for any classification of employee. In this clause minimum wage includes: a minimum wage for a junior employee, an employee to whom training arrangements apply and an employee with a disability; a piecework rate; and any applicable industry allowance. Prior to the first full pay period on or after 1 July 2010 the employer must pay no less than the minimum wage in the relevant transitional minimum wage instrument and/or award-based transitional instrument for the classification concerned. The difference between the minimum wage for the classification in this award and the minimum wage in clause A.3.3 is referred to as the transitional amount.