Foundry Allowance


Award Definition

Manufacturing and Associated Industries and Occupations Award 2010 [MA000010]

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Applies from: 01/07/2023

Allowance Description

An employee working in a foundry must be paid an allowance of $0.58 for each hour worked to compensate for all disagreeable features associated with foundry work including heat, fumes, atmospheric conditions, sparks, dampness, confined spaces and noise.

Foundry work means any operation in the production of castings by casting metal in a mould made of sand, loam, metal, moulding composition or other material or a mixture of materials, or by shell moulding, centrifugal casting or continuous casting and, were carried on as an incidental process in connection with and in the course of the aforementioned production, the preparation of moulds and cores (but not in the making of patterns and dies in a separate room), knock out processes and dressing operations but does not include any operations performed in connection with:

  • non-ferrous die casting (including gravity and pressure); or
  • casting of billets and/or ingots in metal moulds; or
  • continuous casting of metal into billets; or
  • melting of metal for use in printing; or
  • refining of metal.


What to pay

$0.58 per hour

Notes

This allowance is based on a working condition or a disability as part of working a shift.

Should you withhold tax?

Withhold tax from this allowance

Should super be paid on this allowance?

This allowance forms part of ordinary times earnings

Should payroll tax be paid on this allowance?

Include this allowance for payroll tax purposes

How is it treated on the payment summary?

Include this allowance as part of gross wages

How should it be reported for Single Touch Payroll?

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