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avdent
Member
1 year ago
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Activate Super payments for minor employees

I am located in NSW have an employee who is 13years old.

 

She will be working around 7-14 hours per month on weekends and possibly some additional shifts during her school holidays.

However during her school holidays recently when she was shadowing another employee and training she worked for 32h in one week.

 

In New South Wales:

-there is no minimum legal working age, 

-there is no limit to the number of hours that a minor can work during school holidays,

-if a minor works more than 30h in a week, an employer MUST pay super for that employee

 

The MYOB superannuation payment module is not set up to enable super payments for minors. When I try to create a super payment for her, I get the error message "Employee must be older than 13 to receive super." 

 

I have searched the ATO and Fairwork and I find that there are no ATO guidelines or rules or laws preventing payment of super to any employee under the age of 18.

 

I would like MYOB to please update to the software to allow super payments for minors. 

Payroll

4 Comments

  • AmandaMYOB's avatar
    AmandaMYOB
    MYOB Moderator
    1 year ago
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    Hey avdent 

    Thanks for your idea! We'll be sharing this one with our product teams and have updated the status to open for other members of our community to vote and add weight to your idea!

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    AmandaMYOB
    MYOB Moderator
    20 days ago
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    We've opened this one again due to increasing interest! If this is still something you'd like to see included in future updates, make sure to click to vote!

  • AmandaMYOB's avatar
    AmandaMYOB
    MYOB Moderator
    7 months ago
    Status changed:
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    Hey avdent

    This is being updated due to low engagement (comments & votes) from the community in the last 6 months. Please be advised that the idea has still been added to our developer backlog, but it will have less traction getting prioritised without more votes. A further review will happen in another 6 months where we will either close or re-open this idea based on the number of votes accumulated in that time.

  • waymark's avatar
    waymark
    Member
    1 month ago

    I am also having this issue. I have an employee who has already turned 13 (months ago) and the payrun is after their birthday so they are well and truly 13, however the super payment fails with "Employee must be older than 13 to receive super". They ARE older than 13. Is the system checking if they are 14? Or 13 and older? This is frustrating as I need to manually pay and reconcile and the record stays in the pay super screen.