Payroll Audits

Our consultants at Effective Workplace Solutions specialise in reviewing payroll and other employment law-related matters to help small, medium, and large businesses mitigate risk and ensure compliance. Not only can a payroll review save you thousands, even millions of dollars, but it can prevent damage to your company’s reputation.

 

When we do a payroll review, we conduct a review of the employees’ pay against the requirements of the relevant modern award and/or any applicable enterprise agreement (if one exists) and other employment documentation. During the audit, we consider pay rates, hours worked, the consistency of the hours worked, and whether this is within the scope of an employee’s classification and job duties (if this information is available to us).  

 

In our experience, we have found that many underpayment disputes result from businesses incorrectly interpreting the award or misunderstanding their obligation under the award. This puts the company at risk of financial burdens for wage underpayment and employers can be sentenced up to 10 years in jail for wage theft (in Queensland and Victoria). Whether intentional or unintentional, underpayments to staff are treated the same in the Australian legal system.