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AU policy dataset

Australian award-free ordinary weekly hours

Reviewed Fair Work Ombudsman 38-hour award-and-agreement-free full-time starting point used as an editable labour-cost assumption. It is published as a transparent reference dataset; no calculator consumes it until the separately approved integration is released.

DatasetReviewedlabour and employment

Current values

Employee scopeOrdinary hours per week
Award-and-agreement-free full-time employee38

Dataset status

Version
2026-07-13
Coverage
Current award-and-agreement-free guidance reviewed 13 July 2026
Last reviewed
2026-07-13
Review cadence
Every 90 days
Authority
Fair Work Ombudsman

Downloads and update policy

Quarterly review and event-driven review when Fair Work guidance changes. Ordinary-hours assumptions directly affect labour-cost planning and differ under awards and agreements.

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Sources and evidence

Each published value is mapped to a reviewed official source and a dated evidence record. Internal manifest paths and checksums stay out of the public page.

Ordinary hours per week (Employee scope: Award-and-agreement-free full-time employee)

Fair Work award-and-agreement-free conditions page, captured lines 586-607.

Authority
Fair Work Ombudsman
Retrieved
2026-07-13T06:35:00Z
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Update history

See when this dataset was first published, when its values changed, and what later checks of its official sources found.

  1. Initial publication

    Initial reviewed dataset from archived Fair Work ordinary-hours guidance.

    Source
    Fair Work Ombudsman — Award-free ordinary weekly hours
    No change
    Margin101 checked the archived Fair Work evidence and confirmed that it supports the published award-free ordinary-hours planning assumption.

Limitations

  • This is an editable award-and-agreement-free full-time starting point. Awards, agreements and individual circumstances can change detailed arrangements.
  • The dataset does not determine overtime, penalty rates, award coverage or an employee’s actual ordinary hours.

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