Commonwealth Consolidated Acts Commonwealth Consolidated ActsSetting minimum wages and the casual loading
(1) A national minimum wage order:
(a) must set the national minimum wage; and
(b) must set special national minimum wages for all award/agreement free employees in the following classes:
(i) junior employees;
(ii) employees to whom training arrangements apply;
(iii) employees with a disability; and
(c) must set the casual loading for award/agreement free employees.
Note: A national minimum wage order must be made in each annual wage review (see section 285).
Requiring employers to pay minimum wages and the casual loading
(a) must require employers to pay employees to whom the national minimum wage applies a base rate of pay that at least equals the national minimum wage; and
(b) must require employers to pay to employees to whom a special national minimum wage applies a base rate of pay that at least equals that special national minimum wage; and
(c) must require employers to pay, to award/agreement free employees who are casual employees, a casual loading that at least equals the casual loading for award/agreement free employees (as applied to the employees' base rates of pay).
What employees does the national minimum wage apply to?
(3) The national minimum wage applies to all award/agreement free employees who are not:
(a) junior employees; or
(b) employees to whom training arrangements apply; or
(c) employees with a disability.
What employees does a special national minimum wage apply to?
(4) A special national minimum wage applies to the employees to whom it is expressed in the order to apply. Those employees must be:
(a) all junior employees who are award/agreement free employees, or a specified class of those employees; or
(b) all employees to whom training arrangements apply and who are award/agreement free employees, or a specified class of those employees; or
(c) all employees with a disability who are award/agreement free
employees, or a specified class of those employees.