Employee Remuneration & Benefits

Remuneration Planning

We help our clients to develop a competitive pay structure, to attract, reward and retain the top talent.

To do so we take advantage of our ability to provide benchmark data from similar size organisations within the relevant sector to develop remuneration and rewards for individuals involving:

• Market positioning.
• Fixed pay and benefits.
• the link between pay and performance
• Understanding what role your recognition program should play in your total rewards strategy.
• Industry-specific rewards.
• Short and long-term incentives.
• Pay mix.

We believe that remuneration reviews are best conducted as part of the ongoing investment cycle and as part of an organisational benchmarking process with outcomes aligned with an organisation’s needs. Our experienced remuneration review advisers will work with you to implement a review program which fits with your organisations’ current and future needs

Compliance With Modern Awards And Agreements

The Australian Health Industry Group are specialists in award interpretation working across a range of different industries.

The Modern Award System and with it the National Employment Standards (NES) took effect on 1 January 2010, and every private sector employer (whether a company or not) needs to comply.

We understand that the modern award system can be confusing so we work with you to understand your obligations as an employer under the relevant modern award/s. 

determining what award applies, and whether you are meeting your obligations under the award, can be difficult.

We can assist by:

• advising you on which modern award or awards apply to your business, and 
• Reviewing your existing employment contracts and advising you on whether or not they comply.

The Australian Health Industry Group also provides an award updating service that provides you with ongoing wage rates and other award entitlements changes as they come to hand.

We can assist you with complying with your obligations under the Modern Award System and the (NES) by assisting you to understand:

• Which modern award(s) apply to your business;  
• Your obligations under the NES (for example parental leave rights, rights to request flexible work arrangements, changed rules for cashing out leave or directing employees to take annual leave);  
• How other agreements, such as enterprise agreements, individual flexibility arrangements and contracts apply if an award or awards already covers your business;
• Which of your employees might not be covered by a modern award because of their status as a “highly paid employee”;  
• What are the current rates of pay and classifications, casual loadings, overtime rules for employees under the applicable Modern Award;  
• That each of your employment contracts, policies and practices require regular review to ensure they remain consistent with the NES obligations.

Finally if you are advised of an audit or receive a claim for underpayment

Provision Of Payroll Services 

Payroll is much more than simply “paying the staff” and our business AHIG Payroll provides a comprehensive payroll service to companies looking for a reliable Payroll / HR provider. Working collaboratively with these companies to manage their payroll operation is a key part of our solution offering.

As a result the employer enjoys all the accessibility, flexibility and control of processing payroll in-house – without having to allocate staff, equipment, time and resources to manage it. When it comes to reliability, accuracy, efficiency and flexibility, you can depend on our people to ensure the timely payment of yours.

Consider the Advantages

• Secure access to payroll data, HR and accounting data
• Service options to meet the level demanded by your business
• Service located at our premises
• Automatic updates in accordance with changes in legislation
• Minimises your administration and frees-up your resources
• Unlimited helpdesk support

In short our fully managed service is a low risk, high efficiency and high performance alternative.

AHIG Payroll offers payroll solutions that can pay an unlimited number of employees whilst managing superannuation, benefits, compliance issues and tax laws. Our services include monitoring and evolving to meet continuous changes in legislation and circumstances.

Providing experts to run your Payroll and HR processes, allows your business to focus on its core business requirements. The AHIG Payroll team of dedicated payroll professionals, coupled with our payroll platforms, ensure compliance with the constantly changing labour and employment regulations. We have the expertise and experience to manage your payroll procedures.

Benefits of moving to AHIG Payroll include:

Real Time Management – Frequent reporting to the employer allows them to react and control excessive overtime and claims. Important decisions can be made and executed in a timely fashion thereby reducing turnover, rehiring or retraining.

• Minimised External Costs - No additional costs are required for software licensing, upgrades, maintenance or licence charges for end users.
• Reduced Time Consuming HR Tasks - Your finance / HR department will be freed from tedious and time-consuming administrative work such as data entry, data mining, matching and updating. Outsourcing to AHIG Payroll will reduce the burden of tight payroll deadlines and take away the operating headaches of data polling, updating, checking and backups. This in turn will allow your finance / HR department to focus on productive HR activities such as manpower, compensation planning and settling union grievances.

AHIG Payroll removes the dependence on client-side software, equipment and support personnel. The often onerous everyday tasks for your IT department are undertaken by AHIG Payroll's payroll infrastructure.

This removes the information systems burden associated with administering a payroll application internally and provides for servicing the database and software components. Our hosting model offers our clients a secure, stable environment which protects against application downtime and ensure optimum performance.

For a detailed discussion of the benefits of the AHIG Payroll alternative please contact us on (03) 9280 8064.