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• This measure is not yet law and the Federal Government is sitting Weds 8th to pass the law. It is expected to be unopposed. You should consult your own legal advice if you are wondering if you should enact this measure before the legislation is passed. 
• Things are changing regularly in this difficult situation. The criteria on who this applies to appears to be being reviewed and may be expanded. https://treasury.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-04/Fact_sheet_Info_for_Employers_0.pdf
• The ATO has not provided guidance on how this should be processed although they indicated in a webinar the payment may be an Allowance with an STP category of Other. 
• We are considering if we can automate the most basic requirement to simply top up an employees pay to $1500 per fortnight (Equivalent). If possible we will notify customers and we are likely to require that customers request this update via an online form. Additional complexities or other variations will need to be manually managed by customer. Customer will be responsible for updating impacted employees prior to processing payroll. 
• Many variations and scenarios may exist which impact exactly how this is applied in the system which we may have never encountered before and currently have no guidance from ATO or FWA. Eg. (Salary Sacrifice, Leave, Part period and pro rata payments, Stand down leave)
• Please be patient with our support staff who are doing their best to get their heads around this measure and the numerous other variations in payments we are now encountering. Support is experiencing higher than usual volumes of requests so non-urgent responses may be delayed. 
• We are in the process of creating a new KB article on how we think this could be applied manually in the system based off what we know currently. Once that is available we will link to it here. 
• If you read everything below you will be just as informed as us!

Under the JobKeeper Payment, businesses impacted by the coronavirus will be able to access a subsidy from the Government to continue paying their employees. Affected employers will be able to claim a fortnightly payment of $1,500 per eligible employee from 30 March 2020, for a maximum period of 6 months.