Compliantly hire your distributed team members in
Australia
To hire new employees in
Australia
, your business must have a local legal entity or an Employer of Record like Borderless in place already. Then there’s the management of local employment compliance, taxes, benefits, payroll, and more. Hiring contractors poses similar challenges.
Borderless handles all of that for you, so you can focus on getting to work with your new team member in
Australia
while staying fully compliant with local laws and compliance.
English
Australian dollar ($, AUD)
Biweekly/Monthly
7 days
30%
$$$$ (13 of 140 nations)
30 days
10 days
20 weeks
In many countries like
Australia
, the treatment of employees and contractors is different. If you misclassify a new team member, you could be subjected to penalties and fines. Let Borderless get this right for you, so you don’t have to worry.
The minimum wage for employees is $21.38 per hour.
The standard working hours are 7.6 hours per day and 38 hours per week. Overtime pay is 1.5 times the base wages for the first 3 hours of overtime and 2 times the base wages for the following hours.
Employees in Australia are eligible for the following leave:
Employee payments can be made:
Australia does not practice at-will termination and terminations outside the probation period must have just cause.
The minimum notice period is 1 week and it is determined by the length of employment. The following is the notice periods with respect to the employee's tenure:
If the employee is older than 45 years old and has been employed by the same employer for 2 years, they will be entitled to an additional week of notice.
The probation period ranges from 3 to 6 months.
Severance pay is determined by the number of employment years. No severance pay is required if the employee worked for less than 1 year. The following are the severance pay requirement with respect to the length of employment:
When the world is your competition, it pays to incentivize new hires and existing alike. Borderless benefits packages typically include:
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