SCHADS award
Nobody loses money on the award because they have not read it. They lose it because the shift that breaks a rule looks exactly like the shift that does not, and the difference only becomes visible on the payslip — three weeks after the roster was published and a fortnight after the work was done.
Minimum engagement — two hours for a casual, three for a part-timer. Ordinary hours past ten in a day. Less than ten hours' rest either side of another shift. A second engagement the same day, which earns the broken-shift allowance. And ordinary hours past thirty-eight in the week, or past the worker's contracted figure where you have set one.
Not “this may breach the award”. A shift half an hour under the minimum engagement says what that half hour costs you, grossed up through casual loading and on-costs to the number that actually leaves the bank. A flag you can price is a flag a coordinator will act on before publishing.
Casual loading and the on-cost gross-up are your organisation's figures, effective-dated, not constants baked into the product. The overtime steps are not: they stay at the award's 1.5× and then 2×, because those are not ours to vary, and an agreement that changes them cannot be expressed today.
The sleep block comes out before the daily and weekly caps are applied, so four active hours around an eight-hour sleep is a four-hour shift for overtime purposes rather than a twelve-hour one. Getting that wrong is how a tool invents overtime that the award never asked for.
Every one of these is information handed to the person building the roster, never a gate. Sometimes the right answer genuinely is the short shift, and a system that refuses to let you roster it is a system people learn to work around.
The part that is hard to copy
The rules themselves are public — anyone can read MA000100. What is unusual is answering the question the rule provokes. Every alert here carries ‘extra cost’: the hours at their penalty multiplier, grossed up through your casual loading and your on-cost, so a coordinator sees what this particular roster decision adds to the wage bill while there is still time to move it. The tools we have looked at either say nothing until payroll or show a coloured triangle that means ‘check this’, which is the same as saying nothing.
Not modules you buy separately. They read the same records, which is why nothing between them ever needs reconciling.
Build a week that already passes the award
Read about it →From clock-in to payslip without retyping
Read about it →Bulk claims that match their own remittance
Read about it →Notes tied to the goal they were for
Read about it →Clocks that run whether or not anyone remembers
Read about it →Authorisation that expires on its own
Read about it →Evidence that accumulates instead of being assembled
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