But 3 male bike/scooter riders and only 1 female cyclist. So that makes males twice as bad by your reckoning?All I took from this was 'woman driver' rather than young people - so looks like the problem here are the women!
Yes that's the platform. I understand the regulations but given that it's just a couple of weeks before the Christmas break and NY, it was completely unreasonable for the lack of notice this late. Yesterday. And that it cuts off on Jan 13. They needed to advise us a long time ago to get everything inputted and operational well before now. They would have known about the transfer for some time. Every employee data must be inputted again, from start of work with employer, address and the usuals, TFN, salary, and it took me some time to work out how their new system actually worked. I do not see the need for them to have our banking details, but we could not proceed further without inputting them. Supposedly in case there was a refund. In our thirty years plus of super, we have never required this. But now they are in cyber somewhere with a platform we know nothing about. There has been no explanation from HESTA. Just a 'we are switching' before next super run.
This has nothing to do with making timely payments. But changing a system of payments at this time of the year with little notice.
I suspect that many employers simply won't be able to do the transition in time if they have a large number of employees, and with the closure around Christmas and NY, there won't be staff to manage it nor staff to answer phone queries. Which means there may well be delays in processing payments to the super fund. It certainly runs that risk with large businesses.
SS should always be paid monthly. SG is currently quarterly but it has been changed sometime next year? to be paid with each pay cycle.WCMO: My current employer only deposits super quarterly. Including my additional contribution.
WCMO: My current employer only deposits super quarterly. Including my additional contribution.
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Wow. That is disgraceful. Super funds seem to be lost in their own world sometimes and employers always treated as the bad guy. We had one super fund contact us similarly, saying that our contributions were late. Trouble is, they weren't but they couldn't cope with the fact that we were operating two super funds, one we'd kept going just for the cheap life insurance. My email to them as the employer explained they should not assume that employees only had one super fund account.
What? That is what we use for our other employee super fund payments.
Most of the small accounting software products have payroll and super built in for free (or as part of set package). If not already using accounting software, then it’s obviously a step up in cost (about $30 pm). Although I’m not sure how a business could be STP compliant without a package these days?
I've just looked into Xero and we are on the plan that provides this service but many will have to upgrade. This still requires a manual processing of approvals and the process itself won't guarantee prompt payments to be made even once the pay 'packet' is done and entered . It's an extra thing to do. And therein lies the issue.
I’ve been using MYOB for several years. It works, although I’m always amazed at how long it takes to post (~5 biz days). Whereas if I throw cash directly across, it’s in my super cash account next day….
