New South Wales Consolidated Acts

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT 1996 - SECT 129

129 Records to be kept by employers concerning employees

(1) An employer must ensure that the following daily records are kept in relation to employees of the employer:

(a) records of remuneration paid and hours worked by the employees, and

(b) any other prescribed records relating to conditions of employment set by the industrial relations legislation or industrial instruments.

(3) The records are to be kept in the manner and form prescribed by the regulations or in accordance with different requirements approved in writing by the Industrial Registrar.

(4) The employer must ensure that the records are kept for a period of at least 6 years.

(5) The regulations may make provision for or with respect to the transfer of any such records, or copies of any such records, to the successor of an employer.

(6) A person who contravenes this section or the regulations under this section is guilty of an offence.

Maximum penalty: 20 penalty units.