Wageline provides information for all private sector employers and employees on:
- Long service leave in WA
- When children can work in WA
- Which of the two systems of employment law that operate for the private sector in WA applies to particular types of businesses/employers
Wageline also provides information for private sector employers and employees in the WA state industrial relations system on:
- WA awards, pay rates and working arrangements
- Annual, personal and other leave
- When employment ends
- WA’s state industrial relations system
Call Wageline on 1300 655 266, we can usually help you straight away.
Wageline can do searches using business names data and in most cases provide general information on whether the employer or employee is covered by the state or national system. See our disclaimer about system coverage searches.
Before you call Wageline, check the Information Wageline may need to answer your question section below.
The Contacts for other workplace topics page will help you find who to contact for matters that Wageline cannot assist with.
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Wageline provides information to keep you informed through social media (find us at WagelineWA on Facebook and Instagram) and Wageline News email newsletter.
We cannot provide specific employment information via our social media channels.
Information Wageline may need to answer your question
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When you contact Wageline, you may need to provide the answers to the following questions so that the correct information can be provided to you:
- the Trading Name of the business, name of the employer and the Australian Business Number (ABN), so that Wageline can undertake a check of whether the business is likely to be in the state or national industrial relations system (for example - Jane's Coffee Services ABN 123 456 789)
- the industry the business is in, and the nature of the work done by the business, including (if relevant) the products produced, transported or sold (for example - undertaking coffee bean roasting in a factory for a business producing and wholesaling bags coffee beans)
- details of the work done by the employee (for example - co-ordinating the roasting process, filling tubs of coffee beans, basic maintenance and cleaning of machines and other equipment)
- if the employee is a support worker in the community services sector - whether they are employed directly by a householder in a private capacity, or employed through an agency or support organisation
- where in WA the employee is working - name of regional town or suburb of Perth (as some WA awards only apply in certain parts of the state)
- whether the employee is full time, part time or casual
- whether the employee is an apprentice or trainee, including what type of apprenticeship or traineeship, and for an apprenticeship the term of the apprenticeship and the year of the apprenticeship
- whether the employee has a trade qualification relevant to the industry (for example a qualified bricklayer)
- the age of the employee if under 21 (as junior rates apply in many industries), and if the query is about ending employment, whether the employee 45 years of age or older
- how long the employee has been working for the business.
Please provide specific details about what the information is you are seeking from Wageline, to help us answer your question. You are welcome to include any other information about the business or the job being performed that may be relevant.
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