Staff costs are usually the highest cost in the services business, and more than ever need to be managed to meet the service delivery requirements.

With the new legislative requirements to track full and part-time employees to their standard contracted hours, the linking of payroll interpretation to the employee’s contract of days and times to work is a key element of their interpretation of their pay.

Inzenius all-in-one rosterer and timesheet with shift interpretation facilitates efficient compliance, time rostered and shift $ costing to budget

If an employee works on multiple activities in a single day, Inzenius has no issue with allocating time and costs to each component of the shift.

Multi-shift

Data available at the time of rostering is critical to the management of workers’ times and $costs

Changing Rosters

To address the need to transition employees from casual to part-time roles with agreed-upon roster workdays and times, and to efficiently develop rosters that meet budgets and work time parameters, a direct link to shift award interpretation is necessary. Victorian Legal Aid

When an employer wants to change an employee’s regular roster or ordinary hours of work, they have to discuss it with the employee first. They have to: FWO Website

provide information about the change (for example, what the change will be and when)
invite employees to give their views about the impact of the change
consider these views about the impact of the change. FWO Website

Employment contracts need to stipulate the employees’ regular days and times

Ordinary hours can be different for full-time, part-time and casual employees.

The time of day during which ordinary hours are worked is called the spread of hours (for example, between 7am and 7pm). Time worked outside the spread of ordinary hours can attract overtime rates.FWO Website

Employment Contracts

Victorian Legal Aid Advises

An employment contract should include:

your duties
how many hours you will work
the days you will work
where you will work
how much you will be paid
your employment status (for example, if you work full-time, casual or part-time)
your employment conditions, including leave and other entitlements.Data

When Overtime Applies

Overtime is when an employee works extra time. It can include time worked:

on top of the ordinary hours of work
outside the agreed number of hours
outside the spread of ordinary hours.

To better manage rosters and their associated costs, having payroll award interpretation in a single system enables advanced data analysis of the roster’s cost for each period, facilitating budgeting.