Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations(1) For paragraph 21(1)(c) of the Act, this regulation prescribes a class of award/agreement free employees as pieceworkers.
Note: Under paragraph 21(1)(c) of the Act, a pieceworker is an award/agreement free employee who is in a class of employees prescribed by the regulations as pieceworkers.
(2) The class is award/agreement free employees who:
(a) are paid a rate set by reference to a quantifiable output or task; and
(b) are not paid a rate set by reference to a period of time worked.
Examples of rates set by reference to a quantifiable output or task
1 A rate of pay calculated by reference to the number of articles produced.
2 A rate of pay calculated by reference to the number of kilometres travelled.
3 A rate of pay calculated by reference to the number of articles delivered.
4 A rate of pay calculated by reference to the number of articles sold.
5 A rate of pay calculated by reference to the number of tasks performed.