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03.05.2020
Over $170,000 penalties for apprentice underpayments
The Fair Work Ombudsman has secured penalties of $177,174 against a Queensland construction company and its director after two young carpentry apprentices were underpaid $32,347. The Federal Circuit Court ordered Brendan Paul Angus to pay penalties of ...
22.02.2020
Five questions I’m regularly asked about payroll
Here are some questions I’m asked on a regular basis by employers and journalists. What is the cause of the payroll underpayments? Are employers underpaying staff deliberately? Do you think criminalising wage theft will stop it? Will the 1 March changes ...
12.05.2019
Why is there a current shortage of high calibre Payroll people?
Every day I am talking to people within organisations who are looking for great payroll people. To me and the majority of our clients ‘great payroll people’ fundamentally means, strong technical payroll knowledge and experience combined with a proven ...
20.03.2019
New way to attempt payroll fraud
It used to be that whenever payroll fraud was mentioned, thoughts would turn to ghost employees or tampering with casual worker’s master files. But recently it seems that fraudsters have moved their attention to other ways of infiltrating payroll ...
18.11.2018
Payroll fraud
What could have been done to stop a lone employee stealing almost $20 million from her employer? Although it’s impossible to accurately quantify, payroll fraud is more common than you might think. Unfortunately when there are large amounts of money ...
09.08.2017
3 Tips to Avoid Unethical Recruitment Processes
From where I sit I have recently observed a marked increase in the amount of inaccuracy and unethical practices around the use of online job boards in the current payroll job market. A decrease in recruitment ethics is enormously frustrating for ...
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