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06.09.2020
A new way to find the best payroll professionals
At Australian Payroll Association we know payroll inside out and we love supporting a wide range of organisations across all sectors with all of their payroll related issues, training and technical advice. We also know Payroll Officers, lots of them, and ...
30.08.2020
Sunwater signs Enforceable Undertaking
Queensland water service provider Sunwater is back-paying employees more than $2 million and has entered into an Enforceable Undertaking (EU) with the Fair Work Ombudsman. The Queensland Government owned organisation self-reported to the regulator last ...
30.08.2020
Payroll software could protect employers who commit accidental wage theft, ombudsman says
Use of ‘regtech’ would simplify complex award system and de-risk landscape for small business, Kate Carnell says Employers who use approved payroll software could be provided “safe harbour” against prosecution and penalties for wage underpayment under a ...
30.08.2020
Patience, you must have: FWC upholds safety-related dismissal of employee given multiple chances
The Fair Work Commission’s (FWC’s) recent decision in Hafsteins v Correct Installs Pty Ltd [2020] FWC 2729 has showcased a “patient” employer’s handling of an employee’s numerous workplace health and safety breaches. The employee was employed at a ...
23.08.2020
More than 2000 BaptistCare aged care workers underpaid $1.28m
More than 2000 aged-care and community services workers employed by BaptistCare NSW & ACT in frontline roles were underpaid almost $1.3m over six years. BaptistCare, which operates 17 residential aged-care facilities and receives annual revenue of ...
23.08.2020
The Payroll pandemic: Five trends disrupting accountability, transparency and pay
Once the outlier of back office functions, payroll has come to represent a core differentiator in managing discontinuous change in the new normal. In the midst of coronavirus-inspired social distancing, company bankruptcies and government bailouts, ...
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