Payroll Leadership Institute of Australia

A payroll system can process the hours entered into it correctly and still produce the wrong entitlement. That is the more useful lesson from the Federal Court of Australia’s recent payroll underpayment issue. The Court identified a payroll configuration issue affecting casual employees who recorded fewer than four hours on their timesheets. Those employees were not paid the four-hour minimum engagement entitlement required by the relevant enterprise agreements. The issue affected 248 current and former employees after August 2018. The obvious response is to check whether timesheets are accurate. But that only checks part of the payroll process. The harder question is whether the rules sitting between time recorded and pay calculated are working properly. Payroll Leadership Institute of Australia (PLIA) has published a detailed analysis of the Federal Court payroll underpayment case and the broader governance lessons it raises. (Link this anchor to the Google Site analysis article....