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Look up Australian award penalty and overtime rates

Look up evening, Saturday, Sunday, public holiday and overtime penalty rates under an identified Fair Work modern award.

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Tool ID

au_award_penalties

Look up evening, Saturday, Sunday, public holiday and overtime penalty rates under an identified Fair Work modern award.

LiveAustraliaPay and employment1 credit
ServerAustralia
Information categoryPublic modern award penalty database
Credit behavior1 credit
AccessWorkspace permissions

Inputs and outputs

Published input schema

Use the discovered runtime schema for the workspace you are connected to.

Public catalog
au_award_penalties input schema
{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "award": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 2,
      "maxLength": 200
    },
    "classification": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 1,
      "maxLength": 160
    },
    "classification_level": {
      "type": "integer",
      "minimum": 1,
      "maximum": 12
    },
    "employment_type": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 2,
      "maxLength": 80
    },
    "employee_category": {
      "default": "adult",
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "adult",
        "junior",
        "apprentice"
      ]
    },
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "minLength": 2,
      "maxLength": 120
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "award",
    "employee_category"
  ],
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Published output shape

Tool results return structured data or a stable error object.

Shared Aroai tool output schema
{
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  "anyOf": [
    {
      "type": "object",
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        "summary": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "data": {
          "type": "object",
          "propertyNames": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "additionalProperties": {}
        },
        "executionId": {
          "type": "string",
          "format": "uuid",
          "pattern": "^([0-9a-fA-F]{8}-[0-9a-fA-F]{4}-[1-8][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[89abAB][0-9a-fA-F]{3}-[0-9a-fA-F]{12}|00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000|ffffffff-ffff-ffff-ffff-ffffffffffff)$"
        },
        "creditsCharged": {
          "type": "number",
          "minimum": 0
        },
        "usage": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "credits_charged": {
              "type": "integer",
              "minimum": 0,
              "maximum": 9007199254740991
            },
            "credits_remaining": {
              "anyOf": [
                {
                  "type": "integer",
                  "minimum": 0,
                  "maximum": 9007199254740991
                },
                {
                  "type": "null"
                }
              ]
            }
          },
          "required": [
            "credits_charged"
          ],
          "additionalProperties": false
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "summary",
        "data",
        "creditsCharged"
      ],
      "additionalProperties": false
    },
    {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "error": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "code": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "message": {
              "type": "string"
            },
            "retryable": {
              "type": "boolean"
            }
          },
          "required": [
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            "message",
            "retryable"
          ],
          "additionalProperties": false
        },
        "usage": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
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              "type": "integer",
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            },
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                  "type": "integer",
                  "minimum": 0,
                  "maximum": 9007199254740991
                },
                {
                  "type": "null"
                }
              ]
            }
          },
          "required": [
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          ],
          "additionalProperties": false
        }
      },
      "required": [
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      ],
      "additionalProperties": false
    }
  ]
}

Source and usage notes

Understand the result boundary

  • Covers Saturday, Sunday, evening, public holiday and overtime penalty percentages and calculated hourly amounts where published.
  • Supports casual, full-time and part-time workers across adult, junior and apprentice categories.
  • Bounded to 40 matching penalty rates; base rates are looked up with au_award_rates.
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