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If you believe you are not getting the right pay, you can ask for help from the Fair Work Ombudsman. For more information go to the How we help you page on their website.
Minimum entitlements for wages and conditions of employment are most often found in enterprise agreements or modern awards. Employers must provide their employees with at least their minimum entitlements.
Some employees are not covered by an award or an enterprise agreement. For these employees, a national minimum wage order provides a safety net of minimum wages.
The National Employment Standards (NES) are minimum standards that cannot be overridden by the terms of enterprise agreements or awards.
Your minimum wages and conditions are most likely to be set by an enterprise agreement.
Most enterprise agreements include:
Enterprise agreements cannot include unlawful content (such as discriminatory or objectionable terms).
Go to Find an agreement
If you believe you are not getting the right pay, you can ask for help from the Fair Work Ombudsman. For more information go to the How we help you page on their website.
To find out more about enterprise agreements, for example how they are made, see the Agreements section of our website.
If you are not covered by an agreement, your minimum wages and conditions are likely to be set by a modern award.
The modern award will deal with:
Go to Find an award
If you believe you are not getting the right pay, you can ask for help from the Fair Work Ombudsman. For more information go to the How we help you page on their website.
To find out more about modern awards, for example how awards are varied, see the Awards section of our website.
Employees who are not covered by an award or agreement will have their minimum wage set by the national minimum wage orders.
Minimum wages and conditions in agreements and awards for all employees are underpinned by the NES.
The NES relate to the following matters: