Award Interpretation Software

Solutions: Access Definitiv & Access WageEasy.

Australian Award interpretation is complex due to Modern Awards, Enterprise Agreements, Employee Benefit Accounts (EBA) and other industrial instruments. This complexity requires sophisticated award interpretation software to ensure compliance with the Fair Work Act and other relevant laws.

With over 35 years of experience providing Australian Payroll Software and Workforce Management Software, The Access Group ensures accurate, compliant, and timely payments every time. Our flexible and extensible solutions can be tailored to any industry, business structure, or pay condition.

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Award Interpretation for Compliant Payroll

Payroll software with inbuilt award interpretation ensures accurate, compliant payroll by intuitively calculating pay incorporating all regulatory conditions. It ensures all your policies match the relevant awards, enterprise agreements or contracts to avoid workforce pay confusion, disputes, reputational risk or Fair Work repercussions.

Our industry-leading, user-friendly payroll tool lets you quickly create, update, or copy templates without rigid awards, costly customisations, or expensive consulting. Your business and workforce can rest assured their payslips are accurate and compliant with Australia's strict regulatory requirements.

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Australian-Designed Award Interpretation Software

Designed for Australian Award interpretation, Access Definitiv ensures your payroll complies with Fair Work Australia legislation by interpreting awards within our Flexible Payroll Solutions.

The award interpretation tool enables payroll teams to create, update, or copy templates quickly and easily without relying on rigid, built-in awards, costly customisations, or expensive consulting. Ensure all policies align with the relevant awards, enterprise agreements and contracts to prevent workforce pay confusion, disputes, and reputational risks.

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Costs in Real-Time. Including Penalties, Overtime, and Allowances

Using built-in time, attendance, and rostering features, payroll labour costs are calculated in real-time and accurately. With our all-in-one software, managers can gain accurate labour costings by rostering employees accurately and automatically calculating their pay rates and entitlements.

Award interpretation software ensures you know workforce costs in real-time, including penalties, overtime, and allowances. Real-time rosters and timesheets enable managers to understand budgets versus actuals. By optimising rosters before publishing business profitability and labour budgets can be maximised. 

Rostering Software

True All-In-One Platform

Compliance management with separate payroll, time and attendance, and rostering applications can be challenging - Read our comparison between Separate Applications vs All-in-One Platform.

Payroll and Workforce management solutions that are all-in-one eliminate double handling data and reporting challenges by being the single source of truth. Through real-time triggers and alerts, compliance anomalies are managed on a unified platform that helps you manage risk and keeps compliance in mind.

Workforce Optimisation

Improve workforce efficiency, take control of labour costs and ensure employee compliance to deliver better business outcomes across your organisation.

Via a single-user experience utilise dynamic rosters, work schedules, restrictions, timesheets, tap 'n' go clocking, absence and leave to measure productivity, and develop and retain a high-performing workforce.

Compliance & Continuity

Focus on delivering business outcomes, not regulation, by ensuring your payroll solution is always up to date with Australia and New Zealand’s tough regulatory environment including STP2 and Modern Awards Act.

Delivering accurate, compliant and timely payroll is a requirement, so ensure business continuity by choosing a complete all-in-one payroll partner that provides recruitment services, managed service (outsourcing) and local Australian support backed by 10-year plus tenure.

Employee Experience

Build a more autonomous workforce that is engaged, self-sufficient and confident in the knowledge of when and where they are working and that they are being remunerated accurately based on their pay rules.

Digitally engage your recruits before day one, then empower them through a seamless modern experience that makes it simple to manage their work schedules, availability, timesheets, leave requests, payslips and personal details anywhere, anytime.

Single Source of Truth

Get comprehensive visibility across all aspects of your workforce and align organisational goals with business outcomes without having to merge data from separate applications.

Adopting a single unified workforce management platform mean you have instant access to consolidated reporting across all your data in one interface. Deliver power insights to your managers & executive that enable strategic decisions, and improve overall workforce culture, performance, and productivity.

Streamline the entire employee lifecycle

From employee onboarding through to eventual retirement, simplify every step of your employees’ journey and the team that supports them with one seamless and streamlined platform - all from the single vendor.

What is award interpretation?

Australian businesses must comply with Fair Work Australia's minimum legal pay rates and conditions. Around 122 different awards cover a range of industries and sectors. Almost every industry and occupation have an award, and your business may even have an enterprise agreement.

Learn more at Awards - Fair Work Ombudsman

What is a modern award?

Modern awards are pay awards for workers in specific industries. Fair Work Commission-set rates are typically for low-paying industries or large workforces. The pay awards apply if you employ someone covered by an award, not minimum wage laws. Due to the complexity of pay awards, businesses use award interpretation software to calculate employee award rates. Pay award interpretation software is part of Workforce Management Software, including timesheet and award onboarding.

What are payroll allowances?

As compensation for employment conditions, allowances cover anticipated costs. Uniform allowances, first aid allowances, and travel allowances are examples.

Learn more at Allowances - Fair Work Ombudsman

What is a payroll compliance audit? 

A payroll compliance audit reviews payroll records and practices to ensure they comply with regulations and internal policies. This audit identifies potential non-compliance issues and recommends addressing gaps or deficiencies.

Audits can cover wage and hourly rate rules, tax regulations, employee benefits, and employee classifications. The audit findings are reported, along with the severity and recommended actions.

A payroll compliance audit eliminates the risk of legal or financial penalties due to non-compliance.

Access Definitiv delivers easy-to-use reporting tools and built-in audit tools so you can quickly retrieve accurate data across your entire workforce. All your data is available in one place - including payroll, time and attendance, and employee details. As a result, a clear audit trail is available.

How does award interpretation software help a business?

Award interpretation for modern awards is the process of understanding and applying the terms and conditions of an industry or occupation-specific award to the workforce. This involves interpreting the various clauses and provisions of awards to determine entitlements and obligations under the award.

The award interpreter tool in Access Definitiv helps determine the correct wage rates, penalty rates, and allowances that apply to the workforce. This is based on their classification, work hours, and other factors. The tool also assists with payroll compliance reporting and record keeping, ensuring your business meets its obligations under the relevant award.

By using Access Definitiv, businesses can streamline their payroll and HR processes to reduce the risk of non-compliance with award obligations and improve accuracy and efficiency in managing employee entitlements and obligations.

Can the Access Group help me set up awards?

Access Group sets up the awards for Access Definitiv users in consultation with the customer as part of the implementation. 

What are the key features of Award Interpretation Software?

Roster compliance from the start
Interpretation of modern awards in-built
Automation of award updates
Intuitive predefined pay rules
Compliance alerts to manage risk
Tracking and reporting audit trails

What are the benefits of Award Interpretation Software?

Always-on compliance for peace of mind
One source of truth for data clarity
Pay rosters based on predefined rules
Alerts for potential compliance issues
Built-in compliance checks and alerts
Comprehensive compliance reporting