Updated Employment Agreement Templates

An important ACA member benefit is our suite of Employment Agreement templates to support members. Our IR advisor Fair Work Lawyers undertakes a review of our template employment contracts regularly, ensuring they are user friendly and legally compliant, and reflect recent legislative changes. Download the 2025 update today!
We are pleased to release five (5) updated contract templates. The first four relate to full-time/part-time employees covered by the following awards:
- Architects Award 2020;
- Clerks – Private Sector Award 2020;
- Manufacturing and Associated Industries and Occupations Award 2020 (Drafting staff); and
- Miscellaneous Award 2020 (Interior designers).
See our Awards page to access the latest versions of the above Awards.
The fifth template is a single Casual Employment Contract with separate schedules for each of the awards listed above.
The ACA Employment Agreement Templates are available to all ACA members – see below to access the templates and read the explanatory notes. If you aren’t a member, find out more about the benefits of ACA membership here.
If you have any questions about the contracts, you can access the ACA Industrial Relations Advisory service with Fair Work Lawyers, who can provide advice and assistance.
The Employment Agreement Templates are a project from the ACA Industrial Relations Committee. The IR Committee is currently chaired by George Theodoridis. The most recent iterations were released in October 2025, updated by Sara Pekmez and Tom Earls of Fair Work Lawyers. These templates were first published in 2014, with updates in August 2016, July 2020, December 2022 and September 2024.