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Amendments to the Fair Work Act 2009 have changed the way the law operates in respect of casual employees. Here are the changes and how to manage them.

Bulk update your employees’ pay rates quickly and easily using KeyPay’s new Update Pay Rates feature - saving hours of time and manual frustration.

Businesses currently exempt from Single Touch Payroll will now need to begin preparing for STP reporting on July 1 2021. Here are the details.

Review payroll related legislative and tax changes for the new Financial Year FY22 in Australia.

KeyPay is putting more power into payroll admins' hands and enabling them to restore deleted items themselves, without the hassle of emailing back and forth!

Employees can now create timesheets from approved leave requests and rostered shifts. Plus! NZ and SG employees can now edit their personal details in WorkZone.

Single Touch Payroll phase 2 will be mandatory in January 2022. Ensure your payroll software is STP Phase 2 compliant by the mandatory start date.

By having work anniversaries in calendar feeds, staff and managers have better visibility and are able to plan ahead for annual reviews or pay increases.

Pay run finalisation tasks like reporting and pay slip distribution can now be automated, saving time and manual frustrations.

To enhance security and accessibility, KeyPay provides 3 more options of accessing employee details for users.

STP Phase 2 is coming soon and one of the requirements will be reporting termination reasons. KeyPay has rolled this out in preparation for phase 2 of STP.

Find out about the JobMaker scheme, how to apply, and how KeyPay is preparing businesses for JobMaker claims and reporting via Single Touch Payroll.

Remote working has become the norm. Here's some tips for hiring remote workers in this new world by HR Partner.

Have easy access to a range of white label functions straight from the partner dashboard.

Users can record, in advance, any future pay rate changes against an employee and the system will update the earnings in the pay run automatically.

KeyPay has introduced a Timesheet Interpretation Context Panel feature that provides clarity on how timesheets have been interpreted each pay run.

This guest post by Beam indicates which employees should receive super contributions and how to calculate the minimum super threshold amount for the month.

Workplace Law take a look at workplace legislation and policies employers should prioritise as we move forward and bring our workplace back together.

Employers within the Retail and Pharmacy industries should be aware of the following Modern Award penalty rate changes that came into effect from 1 July 2020.

Our partner, Beam, tells us when employers should pay super and what happens if you miss your SG payments.

Don’t let the end of the financial year scare you! We're is here to provide you with all the tools you’ll need to wrap up FY19/20 smoothly.

Businesses often focus on employee experience to boost morale, productivity and revenue. Payroll bureaux should be embracing the employee experience.

Restaurants often overlook the power of marketing and social media for website promotion. This blog post goes through techniques venues can use to drive sales.

External delivery partners can often charge restaurants up to 38% per order commission fees. Here's how you can move your restaurant online and increase profit.

Restaurant owner Adam Cheers discusses optimising financials to ensure your restaurant survives in unprecedented times.

During uncertain times in COVID-19, now more than ever is a time to reassess your current system setup, moving to the cloud and putting employee safety first. 

There is no playbook for years like 2020 with COVID-19. But instead of getting overwhelmed amid the changes, there’s also opportunity. 

The amount of super you must pay employees is set out by law. This article by Beam covers the SG rate, future SG rates, and calculating OTE.

COVID-19 is an unnerving time and in this time of unease, we want to help you find opportunity for you, and your clients, through technology.

Due to the impacts of Coronavirus, the Fair Work Commission has increased award flexibility and introduced unpaid pandemic leave and annual leave at half pay.

In order to keep workers in employment for as long as possible during COVID-19, the Federal Government announced the JobSeeker program for wage subsidies.

KeyPay has improved how ETP Type O payments are processed in the pay run to ensure compliance, and improve automation and ease of use.

Read the latest findings from KeyPay’s 2020 Gender Pay Gap report.

Employment Innovations shares 5 Australian payroll trends businesses should look out for in 2020.

The High Court of Australia handed down a decision clarifying how personal/carer's leave is accrued and taken. Here's your next steps to remain compliant.

How will the 2020 Modern Award changes affect how you pay annualised wages? We discuss this and our solution to keep you compliant.

KeyPay’s partner dashboard allows partners to enhance client services, generate new business, analyse client activity and save time on support requests.

We put KeyPay to the test every day for our payroll management, rostering and timesheet needs. See how we use it to its full potential in our own business.

What's the importance of change management during technology implementations? We discuss what you need to know to make your next change a success.

New WorkZone update brings added functionality for managers looking to reduce rostering inefficiencies and manage staff better on the go.

The Rostering vs Timesheet comparison report helps businesses identify financial costs to guide business development.

KeyPay supports posting journal entries of leave accrued and allows you to automate this process by configuring the Chart of Accounts to map leave liability.

Thinking about changing payroll software? These are several ways you can transition Single Touch Payroll (STP) reporting from one payroll system to another.

Users can now use Method B(ii) as another option to Method A, when calculating withholding amounts on lump sum payments in KeyPay.

Employment Innovations have compiled a list of their top ten employment law myths that they find catch out employers again and again.

GDPR employee obligations are made easy with KeyPay by giving employers the tools to anonymise employee data and access to their personal data.

Businesses with <19 employees will have begun reporting Single Touch Payroll events from July 1 2019. We recap on STP and what you should be aware of.

Cloud software is becoming widely used, but some payroll administrators can't let go of desktop systems. Here's why you should switch to the cloud.

Your managers can now approve expense requests directly from their smartphone in WorkZone - KeyPay's employee app - anywhere and any time!

A decision of the Federal Circuit Court of Australia has shown why employers must exercise care when seeking to dismiss employees – even during probation.

End of Financial Year 2018/19 is upon us and this may be the final year employees need payment summaries. Here's how employees can download in KeyPay.

This blog guides you through lodging PAYG payment summary reports to the ATO for this end of year 2018/2019 - before you start STP reporting next year!

KeyPay is making EOFY an even more enjoyable task with its EOFY resources and EOFY STP wizard.

Publishing employee payment summaries was previously a time consuming process, but now with KeyPay, it can be completed in a few simple clicks.

KeyPay is making End of Financial Year reporting and setting up Single Touch Payroll an easy task.

A crucial part of End of Financial Year for those not yet reporting with STP is end of year reconciliation. Here's how to get end of year reporting right.

Single Touch Payroll will be mandatory for all employers by July 1 2019. Find out all you need to know about STP and KeyPay.

What is a modern award? Learn about some basic information about modern awards to help employers find their way.

With KeyPay's restricted reporting's enhanced feature, restricted users can now be given access to the employee group and location permissions. Learn more.

Clock Me In from KeyPay now allows managers to perform most of the admin features previously only afforded to full access users. Explore more.

WorkZone, KeyPay’s mobile app, now allows managers to approve leave requests and timesheets on the go. Download WorkZone today to explore more.

The process of acquiring employee super details is automated with KeyPay. Employees can select employer's default super fund when providing super details online

Can you find a 'new hope' for payroll? Take this quiz to assess your current payroll software and find out where you can improve your payroll processes.

Single Touch Payroll is an ATO initiative, mandatory for small businesses by July 1. What is STP and what are the benefits of starting now?

Remove some or all manual handling of processing pays by setting up automated pay runs in your business and instead spend that time focussing on other work.

Traditional payroll systems are inefficient and difficult to use. Bureaux should no longer settle for the norm and recognise the benefits of cloud payroll.

Explore some of the HR and employment issues employers may face when relocating office in part 2 of our blog by Workplace Law.

Restricted users can now access to the pay slip, payment file & journal reports. This removes the responsibility of post payroll tasks for full access users.

In this blog, we outline some of the key considerations and a few issues that HR, managers and businesses can expect to face when relocating office.

Shift bidding automates the process of filling an unassigned shift. Automatic updates to the roster keeps managers abreast of real time shift updates.

It is increasingly common for workers to hold multiple jobs. But should these positions be bundled together, or treated separately?

Record keeping, providing pay slips aren't many people’s favourite pastime but it's a critical task for every responsible employer to remain Fair Work compliant

With a range of features such as employee self service, rostering, there's something for everyone to make payroll easier. Explore KeyPay's top 3 features.

Easily configure your notification settings to stay abreast of any changes so as not to affect any current processes when employee details are updated or added.

Pro rata hours now are auto calculated in pay run. This means no manual adjustments are required and no accidental overpayments processed. Learn more.

With Clock Me In, managers can clock in/out on behalf of employees, eliminating the dramas associated with employees forgetting to clock in/out. Learn more.

KeyPay is different to traditional payroll software. We take the pain out of the pay run by automating manual processes. Read about our KeyPay's brand story.

There has been a lot of hype about Single Touch Payroll from payroll managers, accountants & payroll software providers. Explore KeyPay's STP implementation.

New look of Manager Dashboard provides shortcut create & access buttons & displays pending action items. Explore some Manager Dashboard highlights.

Explore some new permissions KeyPay has added for managers. This allows full access users the ability to start delegating more and more tasks to Managers.

KeyPay's document functionality allows managers to require employees to acknowledge documents via employee dashboard/WorkZone and receive notifications.

Two-factor authentication enabled in KeyPay will help to strengthen your account security with us. Learn how Two-factor authentication works & how to enable it.

KeyPay’s leave automation functionality makes managing employees’ leave a breeze. Explore our 4 new enhancements to configuring leave accruals.

KeyPay Australia has Improved transparency in how the PAYG for termination pay is calculated. Learn how PAYG on a non-ETP termination pay is calculated now.

Employees can now swap shifts or receive proposed swapped shifts through WorkZone. This allows employees to complete the cycle of receiving & accepting shifts.

Ready for Single Touch Payroll? Here is the first milestone in the STP timeline to help you get ready for the July 1st initiative: the employee headcount.

We decided to bring the team together for 2 days / 3 nights in the Hunter Valley for what became known as our first ever “KeyCon”.

KeyPay's Net to Gross Calculator feature helps automatically calculate what the equivalent gross amount should be based off a desired net amount. Learn more.

Managers can now clock out or discard shifts on behalf of employees directly from the Live View report. Learn more about how this works.

Better manage your rosters by empowering employees to swap shifts they cannot work with other eligible employees. This will significantly save managers' times.

KeyPay has extended Pay Run Tasks feature to all user types. Remove constant back & forth phone calls, emails & spreadsheets to communicate pay run exceptions.

Have more control on your set up and ongoing management of Tags through our new management screen. Explore KeyPay's tips on navigating the Tag screen.

Take advantage of KeyPay's Modern Award library that contains pre-interpreted rules and more. Learn more about the new simplified process now.

Fair Work announced some of the most large-scale changes in recent memory to key Modern Awards in Australia. Find out more about the impacts of these changes.

Live View is our latest intuitive report that captures real time employee clock in and out activities generated via Clock Me In and WorkZone.

Heavy industry investment in AI by accounting software begs the question, is artificial intelligence the future of payroll?

What is Single Touch Payroll? How does Single Touch Payroll benefit employers? How KeyPay supports Single Touch Payroll? Learn everything about STP here.

Over 15% of Australians are employed under a Modern Award, yet a large number of businesses aren't paying their employees correctly. Read more.

WorkZone: KeyPay's Mobile App for Payroll Management. View bank accounts, pay slips, super accounts, submit timesheets. All in one mobile management.

With the release of employee onboarding in KeyPay, employers can say goodbye to the paperwork associated with hiring new employees. Explore more.