Do you include these details on the employee's records? Note: you can keep manual and/or
electronic records.
Do you include the following details on your employee's pay slip:
4. Ending employment
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The basics of the Fair Work System
The terms and conditions in the National Employment Standards (NES) are the safety net
for a majority of workers in Australia. It’s important that you understand where your
employees’ minimum entitlements come from (minimum wage, award or enterprise agreement)
and what you need to do to meet your obligations.
To find out more you can use:
Our
Find My Award
tool will help you find which award (or awards) apply to your business.
Remember, it's important employees get the right pay rate for the type of work they do.
The following resources will help you learn more about minimum pay and conditions:
Use our
Pay calculator
to work out pay rates, penalties and allowances.
Our
Find my award
tool will help you find which award (or awards) apply to your business.
Our
Pay page
provides information about minimum wages, penalty rates and allowances, making
deductions, how to record these payments and more.
Our
Becoming a permanent employee
page
sets out the rules for employers and employees on the process for eligible casual employees to access a pathway to become a full-time or part-time employee.
Record-keeping and pay slips
Remember, it’s important that employers get record-keeping and pay slips right. The
following resource/s will help you learn more about record-keeping and pay slips:
The Record-keeping and pay slips course in our
Online Learning Centre
will teach you more about your obligation to keep accurate records, and how you can
easily keep your business records up to date.
You can download our
Templates
to help you on a wide range of topics including payslips and record-keeping,
employing staff, hours of work, balancing work and family, managing performance and
ending employment.
Our
Pay slips and record-keeping page
gives you easy access to all our resources on pay slips and record-keeping, so you
can find everything you need in one place.
Ending employment
It’s important to know the rules around termination and redundancy. The following
resource/s below will help you learn more about ending employment:
Our
Notice and Redundancy calculator
calculates entitlements when employment ends, including notice to be given and
redundancy pay.
The
Small Business Fair Dismissal Code
provides protection for small businesses (with less than 15 employees) against
unfair dismissal claims, as long as an employer follows the code.
Our page on
Ending Employment
provides information on notice and final pay, redundancy, bankruptcy and liquidation
as well as unfair dismissal.