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Payroll guidance to help your business manage government, legal, and economic changes.

Datacom's payroll resources will help you navigate government, legal, and economic changes that may affect your Datacom payroll systems.

Our payroll specialists stay across all updates to remuneration schemes, flexible working arrangements, changing legislation, and more so we can continue to manage your payroll system needs while you focus on your business.

We will continually update our supportive and complementary resources, helping to break down any important and complicated changes so you always receive the most up-to-date information and the best customer service.

Whether your Australia or New Zealand business uses DataPay, EasiPay, MyPay, or NetPay, our top priority is to make sure we can help you to continue to pay your employees correctly and on time.

COVID-19
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    Managing fraud risks
    COVID-19 has caused economic hardship but businesses are also at risk of becoming victim to opportunistic fraudsters. Read our tips on how to manage your fraud risk. Learn more
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    Wage Subsidy August update
    With New Zealand entering a second lockdown, we highlight what employers need to consider when dealing with the impacts of COVID-19 in the workplace. Learn more
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    COVID-19 financial support
    What you need to know about the government's latest developments and how it affects your business and organisation, including updates to the leave payment scheme. Learn more
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    Essential workers leave
    How does the government's essential workers leave support scheme affect your employees and their annual leave? We assess it and how it impacts public holidays and the COVID-19 wage subsidy scheme. Learn more
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    Support for employers
    All New Zealand employers who have been adversely affected by COVID-19 are eligible to apply for the wage subsidy scheme, including essential businesses. Find out how this affects your business. Learn more
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    Australian workforce laws and COVID-19
    We answer your frequently asked questions about the latest Australian workforce laws, including what to do if an employee becomes ill and whether working from home should affect an employee's salary? Learn more
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    Government support during COVID-19 – JobKeeper Payment
    What do you need to know before enrolling in the JobKeeper payment scheme? And what do you need to tell your employees if you do enrol? We look at the government's latest updates. Learn more
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    JobKeeper payments – a guide for payroll
    The AU$130bn wage subsidy scheme, called the JobKeeper Payment, aims to assist businesses who need help to cover their employees' wages. We outline what you need to know. Learn more
Payroll resources
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    Best-of-breed vs single vendor
    When it comes to purchasing payroll software, a vendor may offer you two options. How do you decide? We analyse your two options and what options you need to consider. Learn more
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    What is leave leakage?
    There's an invisible cost which may be affecting your business. We look at the high risk of leave leakage, particularly during holiday periods, and give you advice on how to combat it. Learn more
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    Extended leave without pay
    Your staff are your most valuable asset. Yet, payroll is one of the most important operating expenses. How can you preserve staff while reducing costs? Learn more
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    Employment Law Updates for New Zealand Employers
    Download your copy of our Employment Law Updates for New Zealand Employers eBook to learn how the latest law updates may affect your business. Download eBook
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    Classifying contractors correctly
    A recent decision by the Employment Court demonstrates the importance of reviewing your employment status and the written contracts of independent contractors. Learn more
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    The IR345 Reconciliation Report
    We help you to bring together the information found on our IR345 report and what appears in myIR. Learn more
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    Payday filing guidelines
    We will highlight the new requirement that changes the way businesses must submit employee payroll information to the Inland Revenue Department (IRD). Learn more
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    Payroll tax obligations
    The Australian State Revenue Offices have increased their focus on the payment taxes in relation to Employee Share Schemes (ESS) offered by employees. What does this mean? And how does it affect you? Learn more
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    Employers' guide to single touch payroll (STP)
    Instead of reporting payment summaries once at the end of a financial year, you now need to send information at every pay run. Our guide will help you through this change. Learn more
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    The latest in Australian payroll compliance
    What are the latest public holiday substitution changes? What do you need to know about salary sacrificed super contributions? We give you an insight into the latest compliance rules and regulations. Learn more
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    How a Federal Court decision affects you
    A recent decision by the Full Federal Court of Australia regarding the accruing and taking of paid personal/carer's leave has significant ramifications across all Australian workplaces. Learn more
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    Jobmaker Payments: a guide for payroll
    The end of 2020 saw the introduction of the JobMaker Hiring Credit scheme as an incentive for employers to hire additional young jobseekers. Find out how these changes apply to your business. Learn more
Decision-making tools and FAQs
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    Payroll compliance
    Learn what payroll risks your organisation may face in New Zealand with our payroll compliance decision-making tool, including what key areas to look out for. Learn more
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    Payroll compliance
    Learn what payroll risks your organisation may face in Australia with our payroll compliance decision-making tool, including what key areas to look out for. Learn more

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23-03-2020 Reducing your staff could affect your payroll, for the worse Hard-hit industries are trying to save money any way they can, including reducing their staff. If you make the painful decision to do this, there’s something you need to know about your payroll first. Angeline Yeoh
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19-05-2020 Why is a cloud payroll deployment important? Businesses who did not have its systems in the cloud or their staff set up to work remotely have struggled during the pandemic. There is now incontrovertible proof that cloud computing is the future. Kevin Murphy
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23-04-2020 Keeping your payroll systems functioning during a crisis There are many different approaches to adjusting your payroll system in time of crisis. Datacom's Chris Mar investigates why the easy option may make organisations pay dearly in the future. Chris Mar
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