Fair Work changes for Casual Employment

Fair Work recently brought in the new Casual Conversion Requirements.

 First, let us clarify some terms:

• CEIS - Casual Employment Information Statement
• Casual
• no firm commitment to hours or pattern of work
• receives a 25% casual loading on their hourly rate
• does NOT receive Annual Leave or Personal (sick) Leave
• Permanent
• commitment to a pattern of work
• can be:
• Full time = 38 hours per week
• Part time = pattern of hours per week
• no 25% loading
• does receive Annual Leave and Personal (sick) Leave

There are some situations where you must offer a Casual Employee the opportunity to change to Permanent status (either Full Time or Part Time).

Small Business = less than 15 employees

• Send CEIS now
• Eligible Casual Employees may request to be converted to Permanent (full time or part time)
• There is no requirement for you to offer conversion to Permanent
• All new Casuals must be given the CEIS upon employment

Other Business = 15 or more employees

• Send CEIS to current Casuals immediately after 27th September 2021
• You MUST offer Conversion to Permanent (full time or part time) to eligible Casual Employees 
• after 27th September 2021
• if employed for 12mths plus
• if there has been a regular pattern of hours for the last 6mths
• if the regular pattern of hours would continue
• the offer must be in writing
• All new Casuals must be given the CEIS upon employment
• Conversion eligibility must be assessed on the anniversary of the start date of every single Casual Employee
• Each casual employee must be given a written notice of offer or reason for not offering - 

• You can download the CEIS clicking here.

All employees should also receive a Fair Work Information statement on employment, click here to download. 

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us at any time. We look forward to hearing from you.

To view information direct from Fair Work you can click here

Quick reminder that from 1 July 2021 the rate of superannuation is increasing to 10%. This will be automatically adjusted within your Single Touch Payroll Software.

Kind Regards

The Team
Hartmann-Cox