{
  "datasetId": "au-ordinary-weekly-hours",
  "market": "au",
  "title": "Australian award-free ordinary weekly hours",
  "summary": "Reviewed Fair Work Ombudsman 38-hour award-and-agreement-free full-time starting point used as an editable labour-cost assumption.",
  "version": "2026-07-13",
  "coveragePeriod": "Current award-and-agreement-free guidance reviewed 13 July 2026",
  "effectiveDate": null,
  "retrievedAt": "2026-07-13",
  "lastReviewedAt": "2026-07-13",
  "reviewIntervalDays": 90,
  "expectedUpdateCadence": "Quarterly review and event-driven review when Fair Work guidance changes.",
  "reviewCadenceRationale": "Ordinary-hours assumptions directly affect labour-cost planning and differ under awards and agreements.",
  "sourceAuthority": "Fair Work Ombudsman",
  "sourceUrls": [
    {
      "id": "fair-work-award-free-hours",
      "label": "Fair Work Ombudsman award-and-agreement-free conditions guidance",
      "authority": "Fair Work Ombudsman",
      "url": "https://www.fairwork.gov.au/employment-conditions/awards/award-and-agreement-free-wages-and-conditions",
      "type": "official-guidance"
    }
  ],
  "licenseOrTerms": "Official Fair Work Ombudsman public guidance. Use the official source and applicable award or agreement for actual hours and overtime arrangements.",
  "evidence": [
    {
      "sourceLabel": "Fair Work Ombudsman award-and-agreement-free conditions guidance",
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.fairwork.gov.au/employment-conditions/awards/award-and-agreement-free-wages-and-conditions",
      "sourceAuthority": "Fair Work Ombudsman",
      "valueLabel": "Ordinary hours per week (Employee scope: Award-and-agreement-free full-time employee)",
      "locator": "Fair Work award-and-agreement-free conditions page, captured lines 586-607.",
      "retrievedAt": "2026-07-13T06:35:00Z"
    }
  ],
  "schema": {
    "dimensions": [
      {
        "id": "employee_scope",
        "label": "Employee scope"
      }
    ],
    "measures": [
      {
        "id": "ordinary_hours_per_week",
        "label": "Ordinary hours per week",
        "unit": "hours"
      }
    ]
  },
  "rows": [
    {
      "employee_scope": "Award-and-agreement-free full-time employee",
      "ordinary_hours_per_week": 38
    }
  ],
  "changelog": [
    {
      "date": "2026-07-13",
      "version": "2026-07-13",
      "summary": "Initial reviewed dataset from archived Fair Work ordinary-hours guidance.",
      "significance": "material"
    }
  ],
  "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."
  ]
}