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Employment Contracts, Modern Awards and Pay

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Hendy HR provides businesses with employment contracts and documentation, award determination and interpretation, and pay.

The modern award system is complex to navigate, and clients often have trouble calculating pay minimums, overtime, and other nuances in the awards.

We assist our clients by:

EMPLOYMENT CONTRACTS AND DOCUMENTATION

  • Employment contracts

  • Independent contractor agreements.

  • Individual flexibility agreements.

  • Annualised salary agreements.

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MODERN AWARDS, CLASSIFICATIONS AND PAY

  • Determining what modern award applies to the business.

  • Determining the classification level and minimum pay rate within the modern award.

  • Determining overtime applications, allowances, loadings, penalties and other modern award pay considerations.

  • Auditing pay for underpayment and backpay obligations.

  • Conducting BOOT (Better Off Overall Tests) under a flat rate pay arrangement.

  • Designing incentive, bonus and commission plans and incorporating them into the employment contract.

  • Designing salary packages and benefits and incorporate them into the employment contract, particularly considering Fringe Benefit Taxation obligations.

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“Alicia is an outstanding HR Executive and the best that I’ve worked with. She has an excellent appreciation of all facets of HR but more than that she really understands the business and ensures alignment between HR and different functional groups to achieve overall strategy. ”

— Julian Quinn
VP of Qlik

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