The regulator started legal action against the company in the Federal Court, focusing on 146 employees who were allegedly underpaid around $1.14 million due to Award Interpretation errors in Payroll going back a number of years. A simiar but much larger outcome was delivered by the court to the Coles Goup in 2022.
The ombudsman alleges (the Business) underpaid staff annual salaries by no covering their minimum legal entitlements, given they performed significant amounts of overtime.
Annualised salaries are generally tested against the comparative industry Award or EBA to ensure each employees is not disadvantaged. This requires covering all loading and penalties for the times they worked.
Inzenius’ Award Interpreter automates the pays from the approved timesheets for all employees to their pay rule instrument, accurately.
In the case of annualised salaries the Inzenius system may be configured to pay the salary whist in parallel running the times worked against the award for comparative action each pay run if requited.
Inzenius Rostering, Timekeeping, Award Interpreter and Payroll in the one system delivers the most efficient and accurate payroll for the Australian and New Zealand environments.
This process reduces the risks of underpayments like those announced in the Age article.
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It is all about the culture and the drive, delivery and maintenance behind it.
The Inzenius story is all about innovation in automation of comprehensive Award Interpretation, linked directly to the Time and Attendance validation against the Rostering with the Payroll System for the automated creation of the Electronic Timesheet with its electronic sign off by the manager and employee through to Australian Compliant Award Interpreter automating payroll production and processing, including STP2 Payroll system and bank processing of pays.
The HRM, Rostering, Timekeeping, Award Interpretation Payroll with contemporary employee communication to and from their mobile device delivers a great employee experience with all-in-one experience.
Australian Compliant Payroll Is So Much Easier with Inzenius’ Award Interpretation Software
The Inzenius package includes all the processes from employee Onboarding linked to Rostering, Time & Attendance, Australian Compliant Award Interpreter from the approved Electronic Timesheet and STP2 approved Payroll processing and distributions in one. That’s Inzenius.
All Inzenius users were easily set up on the Inzenius STP Payroll System reporting platform due to the flexibility of Inzenius’ Australian Compliant Award Interpretation software.
Employee device HRM Rostering Timekeeping and Payroll system in one includes onboarding data entry efficiency.
Easy Rostering Development and Employee Notification. using the Employee Rostering Software.
Electronic Timesheet Software with GPS locating reporting back to the staff rostering system.
Simplified Electronic Timesheet Software inbuilt into the Inzenius Payroll System directly into the Inzenius Electronic Timesheet Software makes it so easy for the staff to record their time worked at each location with GPS tracking and automated time recording for validation to rosters for supervisor approval.
Inzenius commenced with the development and launch of its Award-winning Rostering with Payroll System in 2007. It has been awarded the Oracle and Telstra Innovation Awards and has a patent for its innovative system design.
What makes it so different?
The Automated Payroll System from Inzenius’ own in-system comprehensive Award Interpreter from its Electronic Timesheet Software presents to supervisors the comparison of times attended to the Staff Rostering System for analysis and approval. The system will create the ability of group electronic sign-off of all the compliant times worked and present for review and acceptance of any variances.
Remote employee timekeeping process from a local phone, computer, kiosk or mobile device with GPS site tracking clock are options available.
Adding the capability of the system for the tracking in the Staff Rostering System of time worked on different jobs provides the ability for job labour costing with analysis of the Award Interpreter available to the Staff Timesheet System as well as the Electronic Timesheet Software for each job and or customer. This data provides the opportunity to create a direct billing API to the business billing system. It also can deliver labour time and cost productivity analysis based on the time allocated for each task completed in comparison to the actual time and cost thereof taken for the job.
The HRM Rostering Timekeeping Award Interpretation Payroll integrated in the one system delivers a great employee experience efficiently through the system’s employee portals published to their devices. The features that can be included in the Staff Rostering System is the publication to each employee via the Staff Rostering Software of their roster for their acceptance. Unfilled rosters are updated directly for the supervisor to follow up on those not accepted. If a roster remains empty the supervisor will be presented with available employees to fill the shift with the appropriate skills and permissions to work at the site.
The HRM Rostering Timekeeping and Payroll system will enable the employees to also add their availabilities, leave requests or update details on their employee file with direct update to the Payroll System.
Employees will also be able to view their approved times on the device in the Electronic Timesheet Software and address any errors or omissions with their supervisor each day after the shifts have been approved in the Electronic Timesheet Software.
Employees can view the payslips on the device in the Inzenius HRM Rostering Timekeeping and Payroll System. They will also be able to view their leave balances as they apply for leave that then can be approved online by the supervisor in the Staff Rostering System.
Building and costing rosters to the business budget is easy due to the Inzenius Award Interoperation Software link to the Inzenius Employee Rostering System. The systems Award Interpretation Software will cost the rosters developed and compare them to the budgets established for each business unit. This provides the opportunity to modify the Staff Rostering before they are published to the employees.
Once rosters are ready for publishing the supervisor with a click of a button, pushes the rosters to each employee mobile device. Of course, the alternative is to print and post the roster from the easy-to-read roster publication and print tool
Using the MS PowerBI capabilities, the data is easily available for the development of the business reporting and dashboard need.
The power of the integrated in one system Inzenius HRM Rostering Timekeeping and Payroll System and its unique capabilities in its Australian Compliant Award Interpreter is all delivered in its Rostering Time and Attendance Award Interpreter Payroll system, built specificity for the Australian and New Zealand payroll rule environments. Getting Automated Payroll interpretation wrong is not an option these days.
