Nannies working under sham contracts?

ATO, Employee Entitlements, Miscellaneous Award

Now more than ever before it’s important to recognise the difference between an employee and a contractor with both the ATO and Fair Work Australia targeting the employment relationship and sham contracts. A sham contract refers to the situation where an employer...

Annual leave for nannies | going into negative

ATO, Leave, Super

My nanny has resigned with a negative annual leave balance? When you hire a full or part time permanent nanny or au pair, they should be accruing annual leave, accruing at a base rate of pay on the ordinary hours. For a full time employee its a 4 weeks annual leave...

The nanny contract advantage

ATO, Employee Entitlements, Miscellaneous Award

Employment contracts for nannies: Many nanny employers tend to view a written work agreement as a document that offers benefits and protection primarily to the nanny when in fact; the document offers legal protection to the parents, as the employer and should offer a...

Part time nanny ABN contractors

ATO, Miscellaneous Award

Last week I kept reading on the web, how it was okay to pay your nanny as a contractor if they work less than 30 hours a week. I really don’t believe that this is the case. Whilst the 80/20 rule, used in its most basic sense, indicates as long as you’re not deriving...

Nanny share – employment & tax considerations

ATO, Policy, Safe Work Plan, WHS

The main benefit of the nanny share arrangement is to reduce the cost of child care. To get this arrangement to work effectively there is a great deal of research, agreement and discussion that will have to done between the share parents. There is plenty of...