1. Do I have to show leave balances on the payslip?
2. Do I have to show the Award or classification on the payslip?
3. Do I have to show the date super was paid on the payslip?
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The answer to all 3 questions is, according to the Fair Work Regulations, currently no.
1 & 2/ While it is useful to have leave balances on the payslip, it is not required. The same goes for the name of the Award and the classification of the employee under the Award (Note this was a requirement under NSW rules prior to the commencement of the Fair Work Act)
3/ Superannuation payment date – this was proposed by the current Government and they were going to bring forward regulations under the Superannuation legislation to capture all employers and not just those covered by the Fair Work Act – however, the regulations have not yet been written.
For the time being, we continue on with what is needed under the Fair Work Regulations:
3.46 Pay slips – content
(1) For paragraph 536 (2) (b) of the Act, a pay slip must specify:
(a) the employer’s name; and
(b) the employee’s name; and
(c) the period to which the pay slip relates; and
(d) the date on which the payment to which the pay slip relates was made; and
(e) the gross amount of the payment; and
(f) the net amount of the payment; and
(g) any amount paid to the employee that is a bonus, loading, allowance, penalty rate, incentive-based payment or other separately identifiable entitlement; and
(h) on and after 1 January 2010 – the Australian Business Number (if any) of the employer.
(2) If an amount is deducted from the gross amount of the payment, the pay slip must also include the name, or the name and number, of the fund or account into which the deduction was paid.
(3) If the employee is paid at an hourly rate of pay, the pay slip must also include:
(a) the rate of pay for the employee’s ordinary hours (however described); and
(b) the number of hours in that period for which the employee was employed at that rate; and
(c) the amount of the payment made at that rate.
(4) If the employee is paid at an annual rate of pay, the pay slip must also include the rate as at the latest date to which the payment relates.
(5) If the employer is required to make superannuation contributions for the benefit of the employee, the pay slip must also include:
(a) the amount of each contribution that the employer made during the period to which the pay slip relates, and the name, or the name and number, of any fund to which the contribution was made; or
(b) the amounts of contributions that the employer is liable to make in relation to the period to which the pay slip relates, and the name, or the name and number, of any fund to which the contributions will be made.
(6) In subregulation (5):
contributions does not include a contribution in respect of a defined benefit interest (within the meaning of the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Regulations 1994) in a defined benefit fund (within the meaning of the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993).