Fitness Award.

Fitness Industry Award 2020 (MA000094) covers fitness centres and gyms, aquatic centres, indoor sports and dance centres, tennis and gymnastics coaching. Common roles include fitness training and group classes, pool lifeguarding and plant operation, swimming and water safety teaching, gymnastics and tennis coaching. The casual rule here is the one that catches people out. A casual is paid a flat 130% on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays under clause 12.1(b), and that rate <strong>replaces</strong> the permanent penalty rather than adding to it. So a casual working a public holiday is paid 130% while a permanent beside them is paid 250%. Casual loading is also not paid on overtime at all (clause 12.2). The award has no shiftwork provisions of any kind, so there is no shift loading, no shiftworker leave loading variation and no fifth week of annual leave. Ordinary hours span 5.00am to 11.00pm Monday to Friday but only 6.00am to 9.00pm on Saturday and Sunday, so a Sunday shift finishing at 9.30pm splits into ordinary time at 150% and overtime beyond it. Weekend work is ordinary time at a penalty, not overtime. One structural oddity: Level 6 ($1,276.00) pays less than Level 5 ($1,287.20), because Level 5 is the Diploma qualification stream and Level 6 is the supervisory stream and the two ladders cross. That is what clause 15.1 says, not a transcription error. Level 1 is a below-NMW entry rate. Gyms inside licensed clubs and council leisure centres usually sit under the Registered Clubs or Local Government awards instead (clause 4.3), and head-office staff of a gym chain are excluded by clause 4.4.

Full-time and part-time employees are paid 125% of the base hourly rate (1.25x) for working on Saturday. Casuals receive 130%, which REPLACES the full-time penalty rather than adding to it.

FT/PT employees are paid 150% of the base hourly rate (1.50x) for Sunday work. Casuals receive 130%, which REPLACES the full-time penalty rather than adding to it.

FT/PT employees who work on a gazetted public holiday are paid 250% of the base hourly rate (2.50x). Casuals receive 130%, which REPLACES the full-time penalty rather than adding to it. Employees who don't work the holiday receive their ordinary day's pay if it would otherwise have been a working day.

4 weeks per year of full-time service under the NES, paid pro-rata for part-time. The Fitness Award does not classify any of its workers as continuous-shift workers under NES s.87(1)(b), so the 5-week shift-worker entitlement does not apply. Calculate annual leave accrual →

Day workers get a flat 17.5% on the minimum hourly rate. This award has no shiftwork provisions. Leave loading calculator →

25% on top of the base hourly rate, in lieu of paid annual leave, paid personal leave and notice entitlements. Under this award the casual loading does NOT simply add to the penalty rates: check the penalty table, because a casual can be paid a different rate from the FT/PT rate plus loading.

No. The Fitness Award does not include a formal RDO accrual cycle. Time off in lieu of overtime (TOIL) may still be available where the employer and employee agree, but it works differently from a formal RDO and is not automatically accrued.

Pay rates by classification under MA000094 change quarterly with Fair Work Commission Annual Wage Review decisions. The official source is the FWO Pay Calculator, which always reflects the current rates. Open the FWO Pay Calculator →