Award Interpretation Software
Always pay your staff right and know your costs.
- Award interpretation tool designed in Australia
- Handles the most complex awards and Enterprise Agreements
- Ensure Fair Work compliance
- Time and day rules, daily overtime and weekly overtime
- Range of employee allowances
- Accurately costed rosters and payroll
- Integrates with Xero, MYOB, Sage and WageEasy
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Award Interpretation
Never worry again
Employment awards are notoriously complex, and it is too easy for business owners to make unintentional mistakes when approving payroll.
RosterElf's award interpretation software has been designed in Australia to handle the world's most complex industry awards and enterprise agreements. It will help your business remain Fair Work compliant whilst minimising payroll errors and saving you time. Always stay on top of your employee's hours with our time and attendance solution.
Our rostering software also provides accurate real-time roster and payroll labour costs to help drive profit and business sustainability. Manage your staff even when you're on the go with our mobile app.
Simplify award compliance using RosterElf's trusted award interpretation tool.
Simple Awards
Time and day rules
RosterElf's award interpretation software handles typical time and day rules with ease, including the following:
- Ordinary Hours - Monday to Friday shifts during normal working hours
- Late Night Hours - Monday to Friday late night shifts
- Early Morning Hours - Monday to Friday early morning shifts
- Weekend Hours - Saturday and Sunday shifts
- Public Holiday Hours - Shifts worked on recognised public holidays
Easily customise a range of time and day rules on your account and sync to your chosen provider.
Overtime Penalties
Daily overtime
Daily overtime applies when employees work more than a predetermined number of hours in a single day.
Beyond this threshold, employers must pay a penalty rate reflecting the employee's requirements to work a long day.
RosterElf can handle a wide range of daily overtime, including:
- Daily Overtime Monday to Friday
- Daily Overtime Saturday
- Daily Overtime Sunday
- Daily Overtime Public Holidays
Overtime Penalties
Weekly overtime
Weekly overtime is a typical loading that applies once employees work more than a certain number of hours across an entire week.
Once this weekly overtime number is reached, employees are entitled to extra hourly pay, which varies based on the award.
RosterElf can handle a wide range of week overtime, including:
- Weekly Overtime: 38 to 40 Hours
- Weekly Overtime: 40+ Hours
- Weekly Overtime: Public Holiday
- Weekly Overtime: Sat First 2 Hours
- Weekly Overtime: Sat 2 Hours Plus
- Weekly Overtime: Sunday
Other Penalties
Employee allowances
RosterElf also offers auto calculation of a range of qualifications or special duty allowances, including the following:
- First Aid Allowance - Hourly
- First Aid Allowance - Weekly
- Laundry Allowance - Weekly
- Tool Allowance - Daily
- Custom Allowances
Make the process of paying employee allowances a breeze with RosterElf.
Real and Accurate
Labour costings
Our powerful award interpretation tool ensures that managers know, in real-time, accurate labour costs, including any employee penalties, overtime and allowances, in real-time.
Rosters and timesheets are calculated and cost in real-time, enabling managers to proactively understand budgets by location, region or business unit.
Rosters can then be optimised before publishing, ensuring labour budgets are met and overall business profitability maximised.
Review actual payroll costs before exporting a timesheet to ensure no errors have been made.
Simple and Fast
Payroll approval
With RosterElf's payroll integration, the modern award rules are applied automatically during payroll approval.
RosterElf can import approved timesheets with finalised award interpretation into your chosen accounting or payroll software, including Xero, MYOB, Sage or WageEasy.
This streamlined payroll approval process saves considerable time and minimises potential data entry errors during award interpretation.
No more manual payroll calculations or compliance worries.
'Award Interpretation'
What is it?
All Australian businesses must undertake an award interpretation to determine the minimum legal pay rates and conditions for their workforce and industry, as determined by Fair Work Australia - the Australian industrial relations tribunal. There are around 122 different awards that cover a range of other industries and sectors. Every industry and occupation should have an award, and your business may even have a non-standard enterprise agreement. For example, a retail clothing outlet would fall under the MA000004: General Retail Industry Award 2010 or an aged care business service would fall under the MA000018 Aged Care Award.
RosterElf offers complete award interpretation within our software to ensure your budgeting is accurate and that your payroll is compliant with Fair Work Australia legislation. When exporting to payroll, specific award interpretation rules are imported directly to your chosen accounting payroll software. Setting up pay templates and including all award interpretations for your industry removes the need to manually enter each award for each staff member. Which award are you?
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Accountants Dream!
Processing client's payroll has never been easier. As an Accountant, RosterElf has not only saved my clients time and money in preparing weekly rostering schedules, but has saved them huge amounts of time and money in processing payroll. The ability to sync seamlessly with accounting software means no more payroll errors!
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Award Interpretation Questions?
We have the answers.
What type of award interpretation can RosterElf handle?
RosterElf has a simple but powerful award interpretation tool that can handle time day, weekly overtime, daily overtime and allowances. Read more HERE.
How do I setup award interpretation?
Our tool enables users to set up multiple pay templates (e.g. Casual Under 18, Casual Under 19 etc.) using a range of time and day, weekly overtime, daily overtime and allowance options. Read how to set up HERE.
What payroll providers does the award interpretation integrate with?
What are time and day rules?
Time and day rules include pay items related to the time and day of worked employee hours. For instance, Ordinary Hours (Monday - Friday), Weekends (Saturday and Sunday) and Public Holidays.
What are daily overtime rules?
Daily overtime applies when employees work more than a certain number of hours a day. For example, if the daily overtime rule applies at over 8 hours and an employee works 10 hours, then 2 hours of daily overtime would apply.
What are weekly overtime rules?
Weekly overtime applies when employees work more than a certain number of hours a week. For example, if the weekly overtime applied at over 38 hours and an employee works 45 hours across a week, then 7 hours of weekly overtime would apply.
What are allowances?
Allowances are amounts paid to employees to cover anticipated costs or as compensation for conditions of employment. These could include a uniform allowance, first aid allowance or travel allowance.
What is an award classification?
An award classification refers to classifying employees based on age, skill and/or qualifications, with the minimum wage for each varying.
What is covered by an award?
Employment awards cover a range of employee entitlements, including base pay, weekly overtime, daily overtime, special leave arrangements, allowances and hours of work.
What is award interpretation?
Award interpretation refers to a system a business must undertake by law to calculate the minimum legal pay rate and conditions for employees. The rules are based on a legal agreement between the business and employees, commonly referred to as an 'award', 'employment award' or 'modern award'. In Australia, Fair Work Australia is the best source for ensuring compliance.
What is an award classification?
If employees are covered by law by an award or enterprise agreement, it outlines a 'classification' that they fall under within the agreement. This can be based on age, skills or responsibility level of their employment.
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