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 and help your business remain Fair Work compliant whilst minimising payroll errors and saving you time.
Our rostering and payroll tool also provides real-time accurate roster and payroll labour costs to help drive profit and business sustainability.
Simplify award compliance using RosterElf's trusted award interpretation tool.
RosterElf's award interpretation software handles common time and day rules with ease including the following:
Easily customise a range of time and day rules on your account and sync to your chosen provider.
Daily overtime applies when employees work more than a pre-determined number of hours in a single day.
Beyond this threshold, employers need to pay a penalty rate which reflects the requirements of the employee to work a long day.
RosterElf can handle a wide range of daily overtime including:
Weekly overtime is a common loading which applies once employees work more than a certain number of total hours across a full week.
Once this weekly overtime number is reached, employees are entitled to extra hourly pay which varies based on award.
RosterElf can handle a wide range of week overtime including:
RosterElf also offers auto calculation of a range qualifications or special duty allowances including the following:
Make the process of paying employee allowances a breeze with RosterElf.
Our powerful award interpretation tool ensures that managers know, in real-time, accurate labour costs including any employee penalties, overtime and allowances.
Rosters and time-sheets are calculated and costed in real-time, enabling managers to proactively understand budgets by location, region or business unit.
Rosters can then be easily optimised prior to publishing, ensuring labour budgets are met and overall business profitability maximised.
Review real payroll costs before exporting a timesheet to ensure no errors have been made.
With RosterElf's payroll integration, the modern award rules are automatically applied during the payroll approval process.
Approved timesheets with award interpretation finalised can then be directly imported into your chosen accounting or payroll software including Xero, MYOB, Sage or WageEasy.
This streamlined payroll approval process saves considerable time and minimises potential award interpretation data entry errors.
No more manual payroll calculations or compliance worries.
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 which 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 full 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. By setting up pay templates and including all award interpretations for your industry, it removes the need to manually having to enter each award for each staff member.
Which award are you?
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!
Braden Whelpdale | Account For It
RosterElf has a simple but powerful award interpretation tool that can handle time day, weekly overtime, daily overtime and allowances. Read more HERE.
Our tool enables users to setup multiple pay templates (eg. Casual Under 18, Casual Under 19 etc) using a range of time and day, weekly overtime, daily overtime and allowance options. Read how to setup HERE.
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.
Daily overtime applies when employees work more than a certain number of hours in 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.
Weekly overtime applies when employees work more than a certain number of hours in 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.
Allowances are amounts paid to employees to cover anticipated costs or as compensation for conditions of employment. These could include uniform allowance, first aid allowance or travel allowance.
An award classification refers to a way of classifying employees based on age, skill and/or qualifications, with the minimum wage for each varying.
Award interpretation refers to a system a business must undertake by law, to calculate the minimum legal pay-rate and conditions for employees. The specific rules are based on a legal agreement between the business and employees, normally referred to as an 'award', 'employment award' or 'modern award'. In Australia, Fair Work Australia is the best source for ensuring compliance.
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.