Job Keeper / Job Maker Details

Job Keeper

This screen allows the entry or review of the information for each employee relating to Job Keeper including Start and Finish Dates along with Tier. Employees who have these fields completed have additional STP Allowance codes sent during STP Submissions to identify that they are to be included in the Job Keeper scheme (i.e. as a temporary measure due to the COVID-19 pandemic).

 

Job Maker

Job Maker information is also stored and used via this screen, supporting clients' reporting obligations on the ATO's Job Maker Hiring Credits program via STP submissions. This data enables clients to report and receive the appropriate credit back from the ATO for each Job Maker Period.

Eligible clients are entitled to receive:

  • $200 per week (paid per Job Maker Period) for eligible employees aged 16-29 who have worked on average 20 hrs per week during the Job Maker period plus other non-payroll criteria that need to be met.
  • $100 per week (paid per Job Maker Period) for eligible employees aged 30-35 who have worked on average 20 hrs per week during the Job Maker period plus other non-payroll criteria that need to be met.

Prerequisites

  • There is no prerequisite to this screen.

Rules and Guidelines

  • The dates entered on this screen are used by the STP Generation Programs, which assess the date entered here against the date in the reference file (i.e. based on the date range provided by the ATO). This determines the correct 'Other' Allowance record to send via STP for the employee to report to the ATO the Fortnight in which the employee became eligible for the JobKeeper scheme (i.e. where the employer can claim money back from the ATO for their wages) and when they will be no longer eligible to claim the JobKeeper payment.

  • The Job Keeper scheme ran from 30th March 2020 to 28th March 2021 (26 fortnights).

  • The Job Keeper Start Fortnight, Job Keeper Finish and Job Keeper Tier will no longer be sent out as Other Allowances in the STP XML File for payments made on or after 1 July 2021.

    The Top Up allowances that were paid would be reported only up until the final pay in the financial year, after closing year end, the YTD's get cleared back to zero and no further top up payments would be made so no Top Up Allowance would be sent after 1 July 2021.

  • The Start Date and Finish Date on this screen as well as in Mapper M001773 should be:
    • Entered in the valid date format;
    • Start Date is not before Hire/Transfer Date.
    • Within the ATO specified date range.
    • Finish Date is greater than (or equal to) Start Date.

  • Job Keeper Details Mapper M001773 allows you to bulk upload employee records for JobKeeper Payments.

  • This screen is not maintainable if the employee is in a payrun that is In Progress.

  • See this article on JobKeeper Configuration Guide for more information.

Field Information

This indicates the date when the employee becomes eligible for the JobKeeper scheme.

The Start Date must be within the specified date range by the ATO (30/03/2020 - 15/03/2021).

This field is set to blank by default.

Note: The ATO have advised to not pre-populate future dates for the Start and Finish Dates as they may be rejected by the ATO or delay processing.

Enter a date in the fortnight range after the employee is no longer eligible to be reimbursed. For example, if the employee became ineligible on 31 July 2020, this would be fortnight 09. Thus, you would enter a date within the range for fortnight 10 (3/8/20-16/8/20) to show the first fortnight the employee is no longer eligible.

The Finish Date must be within the specified date range (30/03/2020 - 28/03/2021) provided by the ATO and must be greater than or equal to the Start Date (if provided).

This field is set to blank by default.

Note: You only need to enter a Finish Date when the employee is no longer eligible for the JobKeeper payments. The ATO have advised to not pre-populate future dates for the Start and Finish Dates as they may be rejected by the ATO or delay processing. The ATO have advised that if you are not eligible for the JobKeeper extension periods then there is no need to enter a finish date, just do not enter a Tier. By entering the Tier,you are telling the ATO that the employee is eligible for the JobKeeper extension and that you want to claim for them.

 

Indicate if the corresponding employee is in Tier 1 or Tier 2.

This field is mandatory if employees are eligible for the JobKeeper extension and/or the Start Date is populated with 28/09/2020 or after.

Tier 1: $1200 per fortnight for those working 80hrs or more in any reference period

Tier 2: $750 per fortnight for those working fewer than 80hrs in any reference period

Tier 1: $1000 per fortnight for those working 80hrs or more in any reference period

Tier 2: $650 per fortnight for those working fewer than 80hrs in any reference period

Refer to ATO website for up to date information including information on reference period.

 

Ticking this check box then saving the record triggers the relevant ATO required Allowance with approved descriptions to be automatically generated and sent with the next payrun STP Submission.

  • Once an employee's Job Maker Opted In checkbox is ticked, the employee is opted to the Job Maker Hiring Credits program and reported via STP 'JMHC-NOM'.
  • If the nomination was an error, this checkbox should be unticked so that in the next submission, the 'JMHC-NOM' code will no longer be reported and the report will have 'JMHC-NOMX' instead to highlight the mistake to the ATO. This then allows an employee to be nominated again at a later stage by ticking the Job Maker Opted In checkbox which will then send the 'JMHC-NOM' again.

This tick box is only available when there is a previous version of the employee that has Opted In and sent to the ATO.

If an employee has been terminated and then returns or if a company transfer has been processed, and if the employee is again eligible for the Job Maker Hiring Credits scheme, they will need to be Renominated via this checkbox.

Rows in the browselist represent a period for Job Maker eligibility.

This browselist is only editable if the Job Maker Opted In checkbox is ticked.

This pertains to the eligibility period of nomination (e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7).

This pertains to the start date of the period of nomination. This is displayed in format [DD/MM/YY].

This pertains to the end date of the period of nomination. This is displayed in format [DD/MM/YY].

Select the Period/s when the employee met all the criteria to be claimable by ticking the corresponding row.

This checkbox is editable if a Job Maker Criteria Met STP Allowance Code HAS NOT been processed by the ATO.

If the Criteria Met checkbox has been ticked and sent to /accepted by the ATO with the allowance code 'JMHC-Pnn' (i.e. where 'nn' is the Period Number), and this was a mistake, you can click on the undo icon to remove the selection. This will then send to the ATO the correction allowance of 'JMHC-PnnX'.

Once the Reporting Period Criteria Met has been sent to the ATO, an undo icon is available allowing one (1) correction to comply with the ATO corrections framework.

When the undo icon is selected, in the next payrun, the STP Submission will contain the automatically generated relevant ATO required allowance with approved descriptions.

The screen allows the selection/ deselection of the undo icon as many times as required but only until the next pay is processed and the STP Submission is sent.

Once sent, the fields are no longer editable, and any further corrections can only be achieved by contacting the ATO. At this point, the information icon will display. The client must call and discuss options with the ATO about how to handle further corrections.