Super Simple is retired

Yellow Canary has retired its Super Simple product to focus on its core offering, Always On Compliance. Always On Compliance automates regular pay and entitlement compliance reviews, comparing payments to obligations, and providing rapid actionable insights.

Ongoing monitoring with Always On Compliance

Always On Compliance (AOC) makes it easy for employers to navigate workforce compliance, through regular automated reviews. Our technology compares what was paid, to what should have been paid to your employees, so you can rapidly address and action any issues.

Why trust Yellow Canary’s Always On Compliance?

Built by automation compliance experts to alleviate the pressure from your payroll, HR and legal teams.

Built by workforce compliance experts

Our team of workplace lawyers, payroll experts and data engineers have built the ultimate pay review solution.

We don’t rely on spreadsheets

Ditch the spreadsheets and let our automated platform do all of the work. We make compliance pain free.

We do the hard work for you

We do the heavy lifting during the data onboarding process so your payroll and HR teams can focus on what matters: paying your employees.

No more sample reviews

Relying on sample reviews can lead to further potential inaccuracies. We enable 100% of employee payments to be accurately recalculated.

Law firm partnerships

We don't provide advice. Instead, we partner with your legal counsel to confirm interpretation of your modern award or EA. We’re trusted by Australia’s top firms.

Automation = peace of mind

Our automation first approach gives you peace of mind that your rules are being applied correctly to your data, whilst saving you time and money.

Have confidence your employees are being paid correctly. Every month.
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We'll let the numbers do the talking

90+

Large scale pay reviews completed in 2 years

$67 billion

Of employee payroll data reviewed

145k+

Monthly employee payslip checks

100%

Of pay reviews have found non-compliance

Frequently asked questions

Is wage theft a crime in Australia?

State specific wage theft laws in Queensland and Victoria mean that employers in those states can face criminal charges and convictions as a result of wage theft.

Under the Closing Loopholes Act 2023, intentional wage theft will carry severe penalties of up to 10 years in prison and fines reaching $1,565,000 for individuals and $7,825,000 for corporations, or three times the value of the underpayment – whichever is higher.

The Closing Loopholes No.2 Act 2024 includes civil provisions. Serious contraventions will cover recklessness as well as intentional acts, with the maximum fine increasing to $4,696,000, or three times the underpaid - whichever is higher. These reforms are prompting employers to think ahead about their compliance strategies, to avoid penalties resulting from missteps in wage compliance processes.

Why should my business prioritise compliance?

Australian businesses are under more pressure than ever to maintain and demonstrate workforce compliance. Non-compliance with workplace laws can result in payroll underpayments. This isn’t just bad for business; no matter the intent, underpaying workers can lead to decreased employee morale and lack of trust in the employer. Regular compliance reviews are essential for employers to ensure they’re meeting legal and ethical obligations and that issues do not compound over time.

Why regular, ongoing pay reviews rather than remediation alone?

While remediation seeks to correct past errors and concerns, it does not necessarily address current issues, nor assist with ongoing compliance. Focusing only on the past leaves businesses exposed to the risk of continuing non-compliance. This in turn does not enable businesses to do the right thing by their employees.

Yellow Canary's Always On Compliance empowers businesses to achieve this objective by utilising automation to detect and resolve payment variances on a monthly basis.

We offer remediation as an add-on to our Always On Compliance solution to cover both historical and proactive reviews.

Does Yellow Canary cater to any EA or modern award?

Yes. Yellow Canary’s flexible technology configures to any modern award, enterprise agreement or industrial instrument agreed with your legal counsel or compliance advisor.

What insights will I obtain from the Always On Compliance dashboard?

Always On Compliance provides proactive visibility into potential underpayments or overpayments down to the individual employee. The dashboard identifies key drivers of variances to enable you to remediate where needed, improve compliance processes going forward and optimise workforce planning.

Payroll teams also find our dashboard handy for automating pay query checks from employees. Payroll managers can drill down into the individual employee via our dashboard to provide answers to payroll queries straight away, rather than having to go through multiple systems to work out the answer manually.

How do you handle modern award and EA interpretation within your system?

Our Always On Compliance solution only requires configuration -rather than construction - which comes from a combination of assumptions, rules and interpretation principles that are applied to your data. The platform does not need to be constructed from the ground up, nor is it dependent on a substantial number of people to run it.

How do I know that monthly reviews will be accurate and compliant?

Yellow Canary adds an extra layer of accuracy and confidence where your payroll system rules may not be sufficient. We work with you and your legal counsel or compliance expert to confirm your agreed pay rule interpretations. We then use this interpretation as the source of truth for all pay reviews. Our automation technology eliminates any risk of human error that is common with manual review methods.

Who from my team needs to be involved in onboarding?

We recommend the following:

  • A dedicated internal project manager and sponsor to oversee and make decisions.
  • A single person authorised to provide instructions to Yellow Canary
  • A dedicated Pay Rules and Data contact

After the onboarding process, maintaining the platform on an ongoing basis takes up minimal resource; usually less than one FTE.  

What makes Yellow Canary's remediation solution different from accounting or consulting firm services?

Payroll underpayments are a result of antiquated processes and systems. The cause cannot be the cure. Traditionally, pay reviews are carried out using humans, manual calculations and spreadsheets. Yellow Canary automates this process, eliminating any chance of more human error – all at a fraction of the traditional timeline.

Another key differentiator for us is that we recommend reviewing 100% of employee payments; as opposed to sampling data. Previously, there were no tools available to automate the pay review process and employers faced significant costs to perform pay reviews. Instead, many employers choose to only review a sample of the workforce and extrapolate results.  

This approach is problematic because:

  • It assumes all employees work the exact same hours which does not reflect the actual variations in working patterns;  
  • Sample groups of less than 40% are too small to deliver a statistically relevant result; and  
  • In the event that staff are required to be reimbursed for underpayments, individual calculations for each employee would need to be completed separately, resulting in further work and potential inaccuracies.  

Our automation first approach allows 100% of employee payments to be accurately recalculated, eliminating the need for sample-based estimates obtained through manual reviews.

We have gaps in our data. Will you still be able to work with us?

Data gaps have appeared in every engagement we have had. We work with employers and their legal counsel to include data assumptions to ensure a more fulsome review. We can also refer you to one of our partners to help transform your data into the correct format if needed.

Can Always On Compliance work for any payroll system?

Yellow Canary’s Always On Compliance platform is technology agnostic and compatible with any payroll, timesheet and/or employee management system. We work with our clients during onboarding to develop a consistent file format so any system is easy to handle.

What makes Yellow Canary’s Always On Compliance solution different from other service or solution providers?

Yellow Canary’s Always On Compliance subscription offers a purpose-built calculator configured to your business needs. Using advanced technology, Yellow Canary creates a fast and scalable solution that simplifies the payroll verification process.