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30.01.2026
New ATO Checklist Now Available for Employers
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has released a new Payday Super checklist (PDF, 199KB) designed to help employers prepare for the upcoming changes to superannuation obligations starting 1 July 2026. As you know, under Payday Super, employers will ...
23.01.2026
Get ready for Payday Super
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is urging employers to start preparing now for the introduction of Payday Super, a fundamental change to how superannuation guarantee contributions (SG) are paid. From 1 July 2026, super will no longer be paid ...
23.01.2026
Why Universities are often caught up in wage underpayments
Recent times have seen several major Australian universities in the news for wage underpayment issues, from enforceable undertakings and remediation programs to penalties for record keeping failures. But behind the headlines lies a pattern that payroll ...
16.01.2026
The trends that will define payroll in 2026
Payroll in 2026 will be defined by confidence, not convenience, with boards, regulators and employees demanding hard evidence that payroll is correct rather than simply running smoothly, according to Australian Payroll Association CEO Ross Heron. ...
21.11.2025
Game over: The “practical reality” test confirms that an individual was an employee and not an independent contractor
The Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) (FW Act) was amended last year to introduce a new test for determining if an individual is an employee or an independent contractor. Section 15AA of the FW Act states that the ordinary meaning of the terms ‘employee’ and ...
14.11.2025
Bend or break: FWC finds refusal of flexible working request did not force employee to resign
For an employee to bring a general protections claim involving dismissal, they must be able to demonstrate that they were “dismissed” from their employment within the meaning of section 386 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (FW Act). One of the instances in ...
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