Workforce Management

Award Interpretation

Tanda’s expert compliance team maintains a library of Modern Award pay conditions, covering the most common awards. Modern Award Templates automate calculations for base rates right up to the most complex employment conditions.

Reduce the risk of errors and underpayments

The same Tanda award template rules you use are the same rules used by thousands of other employers in your industry. This strength in numbers approach acts as an important quality control, meaning the pay rules that you use are battle tested in real world scenarios. 

Managed by our expert team

Tanda’s compliance team includes compliance experts that understand the fine print of Modern Awards to give you peace of mind. 

Our expert compliance team works directly with our software development team meaning that we build the functionality required to automate more of your Award Interpretation requirements. 

Our team works full time on expanding our coverage and improving our compliance capability. We make changes to our templates as and when the rules change.

More than just base rates and overtime

Tanda Modern Award templates automate more. After 10 years in development, Tanda’s templates are the most complete solution available in Australia today.  Including:

  • Base Rates
  • Allowances
  • Preferred Hours
  • Higher Duties
  • Breaks 
  • Minimum Engagement
  • Public Holidays 
  • Variation of hours
  • Aged Classifications 
  • Time off in Lieu

When you pay staff according to an enterprise agreement, or outside of a Tanda template, you can create custom rules and allowances to accommodate this agreement. The Tanda engine is built to handle  the most comprehensive range of complex conditions. 

Visual representation of pay calculations

To help you understand how the Modern Award Calculation works, Tanda visualises timesheet and interpretation data in a way that is easy to understand.

During the rostering process and during timesheet approvals, your front line managers can understand what is driving your wage expenses. 

This not only means that you have confidence that payroll data is accurate. Long-term users report overall reductions on overtime occurrences meaning a more efficient labour spend. 

Faster implementation

Tanda Award templates are activated at the click of a button, so the most critical component of your implementation is already in place when you open your account. You can activate and test a Tanda award template right now, or view our technical award guides to see exactly how Tanda automates the clauses of your modern award.

trusted by businesses great and small

Frequently asked questions

What is Award Interpretation?

Award Interpretation is the process of software analysing a worker’s timesheet, and calculating the amount of money they should be paid per hour. Because these pay rules are contained in Fair Work’s Awards, the process is called “Award Interpretation”.

What award interpretation software templates does Tanda have?

Tanda has over 30 individually managed employee award rates templates, including awards for major industries in Australia, like the Hospitality Industry Award (HIGA), General Retail Industry Award (GRIA), Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Award (SCHADS), Restaurant Industry Award (RIA), Aged Care Award, Pharmacy Award and Children’s Services Award. If you’re looking to clarify our award coverage, get in touch and we can go through our complete suite of awards.

Tanda’s award interpretation software (pay award) templates work by calculating the employee award rates of workers based on their hours worked. Businesses use our onboarding software to register their employees in the award interpretation software (pay award), the hours are clocked and registered in our timesheet software (timesheet management), and then exported to payroll.

Can Tanda’s award interpretation handle EBAs?

Yes, Tanda’s award interpretation can handle Enterprise Bargaining Agreements. If you get in touch with us, we’re happy to help implement the conditions of your EBA into Tanda. We deal with a large number of clients with specific EBA’s that we’ve implemented into Tanda.

How does Tanda handle base rate increases / birthdays?

Tanda closely follows the Fair Work Commission’s wage rulings and implements these into our award interpretation software. This means that unlike other workforce management software (workforce management solutions / employee management software), pay rates are automatically updated after they change. Likewise, employees are automatically moved to their new relevant pay rate on their birthday, if it changes their classification.

What kind of timesheet software (timesheet management) does Tanda have to manage its pay awards?

Tanda’s employee time clock automatically exports data into timesheet management / timesheet software. The timesheet management program then uses Tanda’s award interpretation software to calculate exact pay and entitlements for the worker. The timesheet management program records the exact day and times the employee works. The timesheet management program keeps these on hand for the required seven years. The data is then exported straight from the timesheet management program to your payroll system.

Ready to take workforce management to the next level?

Manage your business processes in a single system, from onboarding through to payroll.

SEE TANDA