Monday 20 March - Creating Confidence In How People Are Paid

Newsbite: Pay increases to SCHADS, Aged Care and Nurses Award

The full bench of the Fair Work Commission has announced a 15% increase to some workers covered by the SCHADS, Aged Care and Nurses Awards. These increases will be effective 30 June 2023.

You can find the draft determinations for each of the affected awards below, which sets out which workers and classifications are impacted, and what the new minimum wages will be:

SCHADS - Click Here.

Aged Care - Click Here.

Nurses - Click Here.

Newsbite: Family and Domestic Violence Leave (FDVL)

If an employee has taken a period of paid Family and Domestic Violence Leave (FDVL), employers should record this on their pay slip in a way that makes the pay slip look as close as possible to how it would have looked if the employee had not taken the leave.

FDVL must be reported in STP to align with how you show these amounts on the employee's payslip as:

• part of gross as an employee’s ordinary hours of work or;
• a payment made in relation to the performance of the employee’s work, including (but not limited to) an allowance, bonus or a payment of overtime or;
• upon request by the employee, as an amount paid for taking a period of another type of leave (other than a period of paid family and domestic violence leave).

You must continue to treat any amounts that would ordinarily be considered OTE as OTE for super guarantee purposes, and report information about your employee's super entitlements

https://www.ato.gov.au/Business/Single-Touch-Payroll/In-detail/Single-Touch-Payroll-Phase-2-employer-reporting-guidelines/?page=12

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Career: Payroll Jobs

Find your next role from one of these exciting opportunities nationally. The Payroll Talent Team at Australian Payroll Association are working on some interesting roles that could be right for you.

Click here to find out more - Jobs.

Payroll Provider Spotlight

Australian Payroll Knowledge Assessment

Industry first Assessment Tool to accurately test the technical competency of all payroll staff.

The test comprises 35 multiple choice questions and is expected to take a payroll professional 20-30 minutes to complete. The results you receive will include a raw score plus a weighted score which takes into consideration the time taken to complete the test.

This means you can get an accurate gauge of technical knowledge without the use of external resources.

Click here for more information including pricing - Payroll Knowledge Assessment.

Payroll Compliance

Paid Family and domestic violence leave

As we know, employees are now able to access 10 days of paid family and domestic violence leave (FDV) in a 12-month period. Small business employers will have until the 1st of August 2023.

Key points to review in your system/procedures:

• Employers cannot set up a FDV leave code. They will need to set up a leave code such as Other leave?
• FDV Leave needs to be reported in STP Phase 2 as Paid leave type O
• FDV should be set up with PAYG, Super, Leave accruals and Payroll Tax.
• The employee should be paid the same amount that they would receive if they continued working
• FDV balance should not be shown on the employee’s payslip
• For all new employees they should now receive the updated Fairwork Information Statement - https://www.fairwork.gov.au/sites/default/files/migration/724/Fair-Work-Information-Statement.pdf
• Discuss with HR on the process of how payroll will be notified of this leave.

To find out more click on the link; https://www.fairwork.gov.au/newsroom/news/new-paid-family-anddomestic-violence-leave

Payroll Question & Answer

Question: Will the 10 days of Paid Family and Domestic Violence leave accumulate?

Answer: All employees will receive 10 days family and domestic violence leave upfront, meaning employees will not accumulate the leave over time.

Payroll Training

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Melbourne Payroll Summit - SAVE THE DATE

This October the Australian Payroll Association will bring the Australian Payroll Summit to #melbourne. This one day event will take place at Marvel Stadium in Docklands.