Payday super, salary rulings, fragmented systems: is your HR compliance ready for 2026?
Australian HR professionals have never had a shortage of paperwork. But 2026 is shaping up to be something different: a year in which the gap between those who have modernised their systems and those who haven't will become impossible to ignore.
Ana Viloria, senior manager for business development at ADP, and Guy Barton, solution consultant at WorkForce Software, an ADP company, will be speaking at a Zoom webinar on the topic above and more, hosted by sponsor ADP Australia on February 25 at 11am AEDT. To find out details and to register, click here.
Two forces in particular are concentrating minds. The first is the wave of federal court rulings around annualised salary agreements, which have forced employers to look much more closely at whether what employees are actually paid reflects what they are contractually owed. The second is the imminent introduction of payday super, which will require superannuation contributions to be paid in line with each pay cycle rather than quarterly, adding a new layer of complexity to payroll processing.
"There is significant change happening in the HR legislative landscape," said Ana Viloria, senior manager for business development at ADP. "Recent federal court cases mean annualised salary agreements need to be closely monitored, while the introduction of payday super adds administration to payroll processing."
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