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Attracting talent to your workplace

7 Ways to Distinguish your Business in a Competitive Hiring Environment

Businesses need people to serve customers and grow. This requires ‘recruitment’ which can take many forms like hiring full or part-time, subcontracting, and offshoring.

Whatever the approach, a recruitment strategy should help the business to stand out from other options candidates are considering. This is […]

Getting employees on board for the holiday rush?

Hiring additional employees to help with surging end-of-year demand?

The New employment form, accessed through ATO online services, will help reduce your administration.

It’s an easy way for your employees to provide you and us with the information the ATO needs. If your new employee has a myGov account linked to the ATO, once signed in they […]

Single Touch Payroll Phase 2

Changes to Single Touch Payroll

Employers required to report additional payroll information once your payroll software is ready

Additional information to report as part of Single Touch Payroll (STP) Phase 2 will include:

amounts paid to staff — instead of reporting a single gross amount, you’ll separately show items such as overtime, paid leave, and […]

Small business digital solutions

Looking for tailored advice for your small business?

The Digital Solutions program works with you to adopt digital tools to save you time and money and to help grow your business.

Key points Round 1 of the Digital Solutions program will end on 31 March 2023 Read more

Xero’s STP Phase 2 roll out

Everything to know (and do) for the final stage of Xero’s STP Phase 2 rollout

By now, Xero users are likely familiar with Xero’s approach to getting payroll data ready for Single Touch Payroll Phase 2.

This will see Xero businesses build on their existing STP reporting to share more information with the ATO and […]

SG changes apply now

Super guarantee changes have been in place since July — is your payroll system up to date?

To avoid additional costs, including the superannuation guarantee charge (SGC), employers must pay the correct amount of super for all eligible employees by the quarterly due date.

Whether you’re paying super weekly, monthly or quarterly, it’s important […]

Minimum wage increase for some awards from 1 October 2022

Minimum wages in 10 awards in the aviation, tourism and hospitality sectors increase from 1 October 2022

Following the Annual Wage Review 2021-22, the Fair Work Commission (the Commission) announced:

an increase to the National Minimum Wage of $40 per week, which amounts to an increase of 5.2% an increase to award minimum wages of 4.6%, […]

Superannuation Guarantee changes

Is your system updated for the latest SG changes?

From July 2022, the $450-per-month super guarantee (SG) eligibility threshold was removed.

This means that if an employee meets the other SG eligibility requirements, you must pay them SG, regardless of how much they earn. However, employees under 18 must still work more than 30 hours in […]

Funding to employ apprentices

Australian Apprenticeships Incentives Program

The Australian Apprenticeships Incentives Program provides employers with incentives to employ an apprentice.

The Australian Apprenticeships Incentives Program provides:

a range of financial incentives to Australian employers to offer apprenticeship opportunities a living away from home allowance (LAFHA) to apprentices who need to move away from their parent’s home to take […]

Single Touch Payroll changes 2022

There have been changes to Single Touch Payroll (STP)

Employers are required to report additional payroll information now or once your payroll product is ready.

You need to start reporting additional information on or before each pay day — this is known as STP Phase 2.

STP Phase 2 started on 1 January 2022

Some […]