Under the Fair Work Act 2009, national system employers must keep hours and overtime records for at least 7 years. Clock starts: not stated in the Act.
Records of hours worked, overtime, and copies of any agreement to average hours of work.
3 provisions in 2 laws apply to these records. Each one is set out below with its own period and start date.
The terms
Conditions and exceptions Caution
Neither the Fair Work Act nor the Regulations say when the 7 years starts.
From the provisions:
- The record must be of a kind prescribed by the regulations
- Applies where a penalty rate or loading must be paid for overtime hours actually worked
- Employer and employee agree in writing to an averaging of the employee's hours of work
The law
Other terms that apply to these records
This page covers hours and overtime records on their own. The same file is often caught by other laws as well, with different periods and start dates. See why a legal term is not a schedule.
3 records. 3 sets of rules. They don't agree.
One business file can hold all of these at once.
Now do that for every record your organisation holds, and redo it when the law changes. ScheduleOne has done that work, and keeps it current.
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