The Quick Guide to Payroll Compliance 2025

Stay informed about the crucial updates to Australia's payroll and people management. 

For Australian businesses, the payroll compliance landscape is always changing, and there were quite a few new amendments that employers need to be across for the financial year 2024/2025.

In this guide, we highlight the following compliance changes:

• Closing Loopholes
  Find out more about these key changes and to ensure compliance to the new rules and regulations. 
• Right to Disconnect
  Understand the introduction of the right to disconnect, allowing employees to disengage from work-related communications outside their agreed working hours.
  
• Criminalisation of Wage Theft
  Find out about the criminalisation of wage theft, including new penalties for employers who deliberately underpay workers or withhold entitlements.
  
• Payday Super
  Explore the transition to payday superannuation, requiring employers to align super payments with wages from 1 July 2026. 
  
• Superannuation on Parental Leave
  Learn about the introduction of superannuation contributions for government-funded Parental Leave Pay from 1 July 2025.