Guideline: Payment methods for employees and contractors/sole traders procedure

Documents required

• Letter or contract (as applicable), detailing duties to be performed and agreed payment to be made

• Position details

For new employees:

• TFN form (staff who fail to provide a tax file number will have tax withheld at 46.5%).
• Bank details
• Personal details
• Superannuation forms (if applicable)

Salary Sacrificing

If the staff member has a fixed-term or standard appointment and has made prior arrangement to salary sacrifice any additional payments (using Form HR42 - Authority to Pay Lump Sum Payment to UniSuper Before Tax), these payments may be paid directly into their superannuation fund as a pre-tax deduction

On-costs:

• Superannuation
• Workers compensation
• Payroll tax
• Annual leave loading (if not casual)
• LSL levy (if not casual)
• Casual - 25% loading in lieu of all leave entitlements

Further information

HR Division

Contractor

Consultants / sole traders not to be engaged direct by the ANU unless the work they are doing is classified as ‘for a result'. Exemptions to be approved by CFO.

Alternatives are:

• engage as casual employee
• engage through a labour hire firm
• secondment from primary employer / institution.

Documents Required:

• Letter/contract detailing services to be provided and payment to be made (Contract preferred)
• Certificate of currency for professional indemnity insurance to be provided
• ABN form (providers without and ABN will have tax withheld at 46.5%)
• Vendor/payment details
• Superannuation may apply

On-costs:

Superannuation (if applicable)

Further information:

Finance and Business Services

Definition:

Grantees are individuals who have been named in a successful application to a granting organisation. In such cases the University takes the view that the grant/grantee has been subjected to a competitive process and no University recruitment action is required. These individuals are appointed "without" advertisement to a term of appointment determined by the period of the external funding. These appointments are normally made under the ANU Enterprise Agreement.

This code is not to be used for ARC or NHMRC. See separate job codes for these grantees.

Payment method:

Job code: GGRANT- Grantee

Documents required:

• Letter or contract (as applicable), detailing duties to be performed and agreed payment to be made.
• Position details.
• TFN form (staff who fail to provide a tax file number will have tax withheld at 46.5%).
• Bank details.
• Personal details.
• Superannuation form (if applicable).

On-costs:

• Superannuation guarantee (if less than 12 months), or
• 17% UniSuper (if 12 months or more)
• Workers compensation.
• Payroll tax.
• Annual leave loading.
• LSL levy.

Note: All on-costs should be paid by the grant so the amounts paid to the grantee should reflect this.

Further information:

Research Services Office

HR Division

Definition:

A staff member employed to undertake adhoc academic duties on a casual basis (see Schedule S2.12 - Other required Academic activity of the ANU Enterprise Agreement). Lump sum payments may be made providing the budget unit can provide evidence that the payment is equal to or more than the hourly rates as set out in the ANU Enterprise Agreement.

Example:

An Academic conducting a specialist course either stand alone (if not an ANU employee), or not directly related to their standard appointment (if already an ANU employee).

2 x specialist lectures @ $256.94 per hour $513.88

2 x tutorials @ $111.69 per hour $223.38

4 hours of 'other' duties at $37.23per hour $148.92

Total cost of actual services if paid per hour $886.18

Agreed payment to be made for the course $950.00

(NB: rates above are based on pay rise effective from 07/07/2011).

Payment method:

• Job code - ACSA - Casual/Sessional Academic
• Earnings Code 116 - Casual/Sessional Academic Lump sum.

Documents required:

• Form HR13 - Casual/Sessional Academic Lump Sum Payment.
• A casual/sessional academic contract detailing services to be performed, and the agreed payment to be made.

On-costs:

• Superannuation guarantee.
• Workers Compensation.
• Payroll tax.

Definition:

A staff member employed to undertake adhoc general duties on a casual basis.

Lump sum payments may be made providing the budget unit can provide evidence that the lump sum payment is equal to or more than the hourly rates as set out for general staff in the ANU Enterprise Agreement.

Example:

A staff member required to undertake editing at ANUO 5 level

4 hours @ $31.15per hour $124.60 plus casual loading (25%) $31.15

Total cost of actual services if paid per hour $155.75

Agreed payment to be made $160.00

(NB: rates above are based on pay rise effective from 07/07/2011)

Payment method:

• Job code: Any ANU Officer grade consistent with the duties to be performed.
• Earnings code 115 - Casual General Staff Lump Sum

Documents required:

• Form HR12 - Casual General Staff Lump Sum Payment.
• A casual contract detailing services to be performed, and the agreed payment to be made.

On-costs:

• Superannuation guarantee.
• Workers Compensation.
• Payroll tax.

Further information:

HR Division