Storage Services & Wholesale Award.

Storage Services and Wholesale Award 2020 (MA000084) covers warehousing and storage, wholesale distribution, cold storage, bottling and packing. Common roles include receiving and dispatch, order picking and packing, forklift operation, cold storage work. Ordinary hours are 7.00am to 5.30pm Monday to Friday, so weekend work is only ordinary time if the employer and employees agree to it: otherwise Saturday and Sunday hours are overtime. Saturday ordinary hours are a flat 150% with no 2-hour split; the 150% then 200% split applies to overtime Monday to Saturday. Sunday is 200% and public holidays 250%. Three shift loadings apply, early morning 112.5%, afternoon 115% and night 130%, and they are replaced (not added to) by the weekend rates when weekend ordinary hours are agreed. Casual loading is 25% on ordinary hours only; casual overtime is paid at the permanent overtime rate with no loading on top. Annual leave loading is the greater of 17.5% or the weekend or shift penalties the employee would have earned. The award also carries an accident-pay clause: up to 26 weeks topping workers compensation up to the employee's normal weekly wage. Storeworker and Wholesale streams are separate names for the same money, and the structure stops at grade 4. Employers covered by the Road Transport and Distribution Award are excluded.

Full-time and part-time employees are paid 150% of the base hourly rate (1.50x) for working on Saturday. Casuals receive 175% (the FT rate plus the 25% casual loading).

FT/PT employees are paid 200% of the base hourly rate (2.00x) for Sunday work. Casuals receive 225% (the FT rate plus the 25% casual loading). This is one of the higher Sunday rates in the modern-award system.

FT/PT employees who work on a gazetted public holiday are paid 250% of the base hourly rate (2.50x). Casuals receive 275% (the FT rate plus the 25% casual loading). Employees who don't work the holiday receive their ordinary day's pay if it would otherwise have been a working day.

Standard full-time employees get 4 weeks of paid annual leave per year under the NES. A 7 day shiftworker who is regularly rostered to work on Sundays and public holidays receives a 5th week of annual leave (clause 24.2). The 5-week entitlement comes from NES s.87(1)(b), which the Storage Services & Wholesale Award classifies eligibility for. Calculate annual leave accrual →

Shift workers receive the GREATER OF 17.5% leave loading on the minimum hourly rate, OR the shift penalty they would have earned during the period of leave. The award protects shift workers from earning less on leave than they would have working the shifts. Leave loading calculator →

25% on top of the base hourly rate, in lieu of paid annual leave, paid personal leave and notice entitlements. Casual loading is added to the FT/PT rate when a casual works any of the penalty-rate hours above (Saturday, Sunday, public holiday, evening, night).

Yes. Facilitative rather than automatic. Clause 13.4 contemplates a 38-hour week with one rostered day off in each 4 weeks, capped at 13 RDOs in any 12 months, with 4 weeks notice of the weekday on which the RDO falls. RDOs are paid days off, distinct from annual leave; they exist to balance ordinary hours over a fixed period. If you are paid out on termination, accrued RDO time is typically included.

Yes. Under this award, evening work shift finishing after 6pm and at or before midnight attracts 115% of the base hourly rate (1.15x); night-shift work attracts 130% of the base hourly rate (1.30x). Casuals receive an additional 25% casual loading on top of these penalty rates.

Pay rates by classification under MA000084 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 →