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18/11/2021

New wage rates for the Restaurant Award from the 1st November

🍳 🍱 Serving up new wage rates for restaurant and café workers

Under the Restaurant Award, wages increased 2.5% from the first full pay period starting on or after 1 November. Use our Pay Calculator to check your new rates: https://calculate.fairwork.gov.au/FindYourAward

💰 That means if you’re 20 years old and over, and a full-time or part-time level 2 employee, you now get paid $21.72. That goes up to $27.15 for casuals.

Remember, your rates depend on your classification level and you get higher rates when working nights, weekends, public holidays and overtime.

If you’re covered by a registered agreement, your pay rates can be different. Remember though, your base rate under the agreement can’t be less than the relevant award base rate.

The Restaurant Award isn’t the only one that increased on 1 November – it impacts 21 awards.

16/09/2021

This is a positive devlopment which will make it easier to get the super details for employees who just can’t seem to remember them, or to provide them before super is due to be paid … 😁

Employers: From 1 November, you may have an extra step before you can pay super contributions on behalf of new employees.

Check if you need to request stapled super fund details from us if someone you hire doesn’t choose their own super fund.

Haven’t heard of a stapled super fund before? It’s an existing super account which is linked, or 'stapled', to an individual employee so that it follows them as they change jobs.

To learn more, visit www.ato.gov.au/stapledsuperfund

01/09/2021

Minimum wage increase for the General Retail Industry Award from 1st September 😊😊

In June, the Fair Work Commission announced a 2.5% increase to minimum wages coming into effect on three different dates. Wages in the General Retail Industry Award will increase 2.5% from the first full pay period starting on or after 1 September. You can use our Pay Calculator to work out the new rates: https://calculate.fairwork.gov.au/findyouraward

Remember, wage rates will increase in 21 other awards from the first full pay period starting on or after 1 November.

The wage rates In most other awards increased from the first full pay period starting on or after 1 July this year.

05/07/2021

Superannuation Guarantee rate has increased from the 1st July. 😊

Employers: Did you know that the super guarantee rate is changing? 🤔

The super guarantee rate increased from 9.5% to 10% on 1 July 2021. Make sure:
✔️ your payroll and accounting systems are updated for the rate increase
✔️ salary and wage payments made on or after 1 July apply the minimum super guarantee rate of 10%

For more info, see www.ato.gov.au/business/super-for-employers/paying-super-contributions/how-much-super-to-pay/

29/06/2021

Thank you for the extension ATO 😊

Employers: We recognise the impacts of COVID-19 on the Australian community at present.

If you need a little extra time to finalise your employees' Single Touch Payroll data, we’re giving you an extension. You now have until 31 July, but it’s best to finalise by 14 July if you can.

Make sure you let your employees know when you have finalised their data so they can lodge their income tax returns.

Find out more at www.ato.gov.au/Business/Single-Touch-Payroll/Start-reporting/End-of-year-finalisation-through-STP/

11/04/2021

Della Motorsport is at the Northam motor festival, supporting Northam Motorplex

09/12/2020

If you are looking to expand your team check to see if you are eligible to claim the Jobmaker Hiring Credit 😁

Employers: The JobMaker Hiring Credit is here!

For every new position you create until 6 Oct 2021, you could receive up to $200 per week.

Check you meet the eligibility criteria and register now at www.ato.gov.au/General/JobMaker-Hiring-Credit/

01/09/2020

Changes to the Jobkeeper payments ...

Parliament has signed off on an extension to the $100 billion JobKeeper scheme, meaning recipients will begin receiving a lower rate at the end of the month.

10/08/2020

Whoops... I missed putting the link in my previous post... so here it is...
This would be a great opportunity to focus on your business journey 😁

Find out more about the PIVOT program - an exciting new initiative for small business owners across Western Australia.

19/06/2020

As an employer it is your responsibility to keep track of the award rates for your team. There are increases in some award rates coming up.

The Fair Work Commission has announced a 1.75% increase to minimum wages. This will apply to all award wages.

Increases to awards will start on 3 different dates for different groups of awards. Frontline and essential services get the increase from 1 July, 2020. Manufacturing and construction award wage rates will be increased from 1 November, 2020 and accommodation, food, retail, tourism, and aviation will be increased from 1 February, 2021.

For anyone not covered by an award or an agreement, the new national minimum wage (NMW) will be $753.80 per week or $19.84 per hour. The increase to the NMW applies from the first full pay period starting on or after 1 July 2020.

We’re working on updating our pay tools with the new allowances and will send an email update to subscribers once they’re available.

You can subscribe to email updates and read more about the Fair Work Commission’s decision here: https://www.fairwork.gov.au/about-us/news-and-media-releases/website-news/the-commission-has-announced-a-1-75-increase-to-minimum-wages

23/03/2020

Further information regarding the stimulus package

23/03/2020

Stimulus package measures..

The Australian Government announced a second economic stimulus package on 22 March to support the economy during coronavirus. Here are the stimulus details so far.