Streamline Management News
* This is generic info to give you a few pointers and should never be relied on as specific accounting advice.
Contact your expert (not your mates at a BBQ or the guy trying to sell you something) to discuss your situation.
Phone in Sick
Please don’t come in to work if you are unwell!
When can you use sick leave?
Sick leave is for when staff can’t work because of a personal illness or injury. Carers leave is for employees who need to look after an immediate family member or household member who is sick/ injured/affected by an unexpected emergency.
Load up on chicken soup, and we’ll see you again when you are well.
Worthy Wage Day
It’s a tight labour market, so finding the right team is difficult, once you’ve found someone you’ll have to negotiate their wage or salary cos its unlikely they’ve agreed to work for you for free.
From 1 January 2025, intentional underpayment of wages or entitlements can be a criminal offence.
If you aren’t sure if you are paying a worthy wage, investigate before FairWork does! Get an expert to help you, winging it isn’t an option.
What’s New Wednesday – Dext Vault
Receiptbank/Dext Vault makes it simple to store and retrieve documents, with smart tools to keep everything automatically organised, searchable, and secure.
For years you’ve been asking us where to store employment contracts, sick notes and pay increase letters (and thankfully not too often – written warnings) – Vault is the answer!
Super Hero Day – salary sacrifice requirements
It’s a bird, its a plane, its a person planning for their future needs!
Are you employing super heroes (who want to put away a bit extra for their retirement)?
Salary sacrificing wages into super can help employees save faster than a speeding locamotive, but as an employer, you need to make sure you have all the right paperwork.
Wearing your undies on the outside of tights is all well and good, leaping tall buildings in a single bound has OH&S issues, being your own retirement hero is a super idea!
Accounting Apps Newsletter Guest Curator
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This month Nicole is sliding into the Accounting Apps Newsletter curators chair while Heather Smith is having a grand time in Canada.
Easter 2025
The Streamline chicks will eggs-it the office at noon today and we’ll be back on Tuesday 22nd April for a short little week.
Have an eggs-ellent Easter Break!
Easter Public Holidays and wages
Know the rules when it comes to paying staff for public holidays?
Fairwork says:
‘Employees should be given the choice to work on a public holiday or not.
Employers can request employees to work on a public holiday, but the request has to be reasonable.
Employees (except casual employees) who normally work on the day a public holiday falls will be paid their base pay rate for the ordinary hours they would have worked if they had not been away because of the public holiday.
An employee doesn’t get paid for a public holiday if they don’t normally work on the day that the public holiday falls. Some part-time employees will be entitled to payment, other may not be. Part time staff do not need to work ‘make up’ days.
Working on public holidays – Awards, enterprise agreements and other registered agreements can provide entitlements for working public holidays’
March quarter super is due now
January-March super contributions must be received (by fund) by 28th April.
Payments should be authorised right now as it can take several days to process, not to mention all the public holidays that will slow down the process this month.
Late payments of superannuation are not tax deductible.
