The Meat Industry Award 2020 applies to employers throughout Australia in the meat industry and their employees listed in the classifications to the exclusion of any other Modern Award.
The meat industry includes:
Meat manufacturing establishments;
Meat processing establishments;
Meat retail establishments; and
The following:
Handling and further processing of all by-products of the establishments referred to in the award, including skins, hides and rendering; and
Distribution, transport and storage (including freezing and cold storage) operations for the purpose of transport or storage of the meat or meat products of an establishment referred to in the award.
Where such activities are carried out by an employer engaged in the award as an ancillary part of the business of that establishment, or by an employer that is a related company of such employer.