Effective from 1 October 2025, the Baking Industry Award now covers all employers and employees who were previously covered under the Bakers (Metropolitan) Award, Bakers (Country) Award and Pastrycooks Award.
This new award was based on the previous Bakers (Metropolitan) Award. The award’s provisions have been updated to better reflect contemporary arrangements, and significant changes have been made to the coverage and provisions of the award to incorporate employees previously covered by the Bakers (Country) and Pastrycooks Awards.
The changes include:
- expanding the coverage of the award to all state system bakers and pastrycooks in WA (removing the obsolete distinction between Perth-based and country bakeries);
- establishing a new classification structure to incorporate pastrycooks and cake decorators;
- standardising working hours provisions;
- ensuring that leave entitlements meet the minimum standards in the Minimum Conditions of Employment Act 1993; and
- modernising the allowance provisions so that most allowances become self-updating.
The WA award summaries for the Bakers (Metropolitan) Award, the Bakers (Country) Award and the Pastrycooks Award outline the pay rates and entitlements that applied until 30 September 2025.
The Wageline WA award summary for the Baking Industry Award is now available.
The Baking Industry Award does not apply to:
- employers and employees in the national industrial relations system;
- employees transporting bread or bread products who are covered by the Transport Workers (General) Award; or
- shop assistants who are employed in a bakery (in the state system these employees are covered by the Shop and Warehouse (Wholesale and Retail Establishments) Award).
The Baking Industry Award requires that employees employed prior to the commencement of the new award on 1 October 2025 who continue to be employed with the same employer after that date must not be paid less than they would have for the same work prior to 1 October 2025.
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