The law in NSW says that your pay must be in cash or by cheque or electronic funds transfer. However, if you are paid by cheque or electronic funds transfer you must give your approval to be paid in this way. Your award or enterprise agreement may list the method of payment.
At the same time you are paid, you must be given a pay slip. Check this to make sure that you have been paid for all of the hours that you have worked and that the correct personal income tax has been deducted. The employer must send this to the tax office for you. (It is called Pay As You Go – PAYG – tax). Be especially careful if you are being paid in cash. Always check your pay slip.
Pay slips - the information they must show.
Your employer must provide you with a pay slip each time you are paid. The pay slip must contain the following information:
- name and Australian Business Number (ABN) of the employer
- name of employee
- classification of the employee under their award or enterprise agreement (including full-time, part-time and casual status)
- date when the payment was made
- period of employment to which the payment relates
- the amount of money paid before tax (gross amount) including overtime and other payments
- amount paid as overtime or information to allow the employee to calculate the amount of overtime
- amount deducted for tax
- any amount deducted by the employee for superannuation
- particulars of all other deductions
- amount paid after tax (net amount).
For more information about pay slips, see here: http://www.industrialrelations.nsw.gov.au/rights/employer/respon/records/payslips.html