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Entering the workforce

Starting a new job
Details about your new job, about contracts of employment, rights of young people at work

Recordkeeping
Maintenance of time and wage records, access to time and wage records, payslips

Wages
Payment without deductions, what employees need to know

Superannuation
Enforced savings for retirement

Taxation
Employers responsibility for taking tax from an employee’s wages

Last updated September 7, 2006

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