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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Employer Responsibilities Related to Employee Records and Pay Slips

By Dario McArdle


From 1 July 2009, the vast majority of Australian companies are handled by a absolutely new system directed by the Fair Work Act 2009. The Fair Work Ombudsman assists personnel, hiring managers, contractors and the workplace community to learn and go along with the brand new system. They give learning, resources and info and pointers, scrutinise workplace problems, and apply related Commonwealth employment laws.

Companies who sign up workforce under related Commonwealth workplace regulations will have to:

- create and keep effective and complete documentation for all of their workers (e.g. time performed and salary paid) - provide pay slips to each worker.

Archiving and pay slip obligations are created to guarantee that people obtain their accurate wages and entitlements.

Record Keeping Responsibility

Staff documentation ought to:

- be in a format that will be promptly available to a Fair Work Inspector - be in a legible form and in English (desirably in ordinary, simple terms) - be kept for 7 years - never be modified except for the objectives of fixing a mistake - never be deceptive or misleading to the employer's knowledge.

Staff documentation are private and confidential. Basically, no one is able to get to them except the worker, his or her employer, and applicable payroll team. Business owners ought to have reports of an employee's documents offered at the request of an employee or past employee. Yet, Fair Work People and organisation officers (such as a trade union) may get access to personnel records (including private data) to work out if there has been a contravention of applicable industrial laws.

A range of information ought to be created and saved for each individual person as set up through Fair Work Act 2009 and Fair Work Regulations 2009. Standard job records must incorporate all of the subsequent:

- the employer's name - the employer's Australian Business Number (ABN) (if any) - the employee's name - the employee's start date - the fundamentals of the employee's work (full or part-time and permanent, temporary or casual).

Additionally each of these universal records, hiring managers are compelled to keep the documentation on wages, working hours, leave records, retirement contribution records, any individual flexibility arrangements, termination and transfer of business records.

Pay slip Duties

Pay slips must be presented for each employee:

- inside one working day of salary day, no matter if a worker is on leave - in electronic format or hard copy.

It's best tradition for pay slips to be published in plain and easy to read English language.

Staff records are private and confidential. Basically, nobody can access them except the worker, their firm, and appropriate payroll workers. Employers must make copies of an employee's records presented by the request of an worker or ex employee. Nonetheless, Fair Work Inspectors and agency professionals (for instance a trade union) can potentially see employee documentation to find out if there has been a contravention of appropriate Commonwealth workplace legalities.




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