Compliance with Employment Legislation requires Employers to keep certain statutory records to demonstrate that employees are receiving their proper entitlements.
Keep these records for three years as you can be inspected by the WRC (Workplace Relations Commission). If an investigation is carried out, the WRC will inform you that this will happen and visit your business to audit your records. Both Employer and Employee will be interviewed to authenticate the information.
Compliance with employment legislation in areas such as in national minimum wage, working time and rest breaks, often present a challenge for the employer as can compliance with Employment permit obligations.
If the employer is found to be non-compliance, an Inspector can issue on-the-spot fines for certain offences. These are called fixed payment notices. An Inspector can also issue a compliance notice, directing an employer to do something, or to refrain from doing something, for certain other contraventions. Failure or refusal to rectify issues of non-compliance detected can result in criminal prosecution before a district court.
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