When hiring an employee who is under 18 years of age, parental consent may be required. This can be sent from and tracked in Tanda, as outlined below.

By default, this check applies to applicants under 18 years of age. As some states have different minimum age requirements, this threshold can be adjusted under Hire > Settings > General > Parental Consent.

Note that if no Date of Birth is entered, the applicant will never be asked to provide their parent/guardian details, nor will a parental consent form be required.

If a candidate enters a date of birth in the job application form that means they are under 18 years of age, they will be prompted to enter their parent/guardian details before finishing the application.

Once the application is submitted, an email will be sent to that contact asking for their consent and signature:

If the consent form has been lost or the parent has forgotten to sign the form, it can be resent using the 'Send Reminder' button in the Other tab of the applicant's profile, or the link can be copied and sent to the parent externally.

You can also check the status of the form (Pending/Signed) in this tab:

If the parental consent form has not yet been signed, the ability to hire or onboard the candidate will be blocked.

Once the employee is hired and onboarded, the signed parental consent will also be listed on the employee's profile under the Contracts & Docs tab.

Employees under 18 years of age are not required to have or provide a TFN. If this is the case, an employee can select "I'm under 18 and don't earn enough to pay tax" in the Tax File Number section during the onboarding process.

If this option is selected, they will not need to provide a TFN. Once the employee turns 18, however, a warning will apply to their profile and subsequent pay runs until one is added.

Employees under 18 years of age still require super fund details in their profile and during onboarding, as they are eligible for mandatory super for working more than 30 hours in a single week.

If they don't have their own super fund, you can set up your company's nominated fund in Settings > Onboarding > Superannuation > Super API Setup, which they can then select during onboarding.

To learn more about configuring your company's nominated fund, please see Here.

Super will not accrue in payslips for employees under 18 years of age unless they work more than 30 hours in a week.

The 30-hour threshold looks at individual weeks, not always the entire pay period. This means that you have non-weekly pay periods (e.g., fortnightly, monthly), the employee's timesheets will be used to check if super should accrue, rather than the payslip, which looks at the period as a whole.

Only if you use a weekly pay period will the U18 employee's superannuation update automatically in the payslip.

For employees on a non-weekly pay period, when the timesheet is exported to Tanda Payroll, a check is done to determine if any of the weeks in the timesheet contain more than 30 hours. If so, a superannuation amount is calculated and added to the employee's new payslip.

If the payslip is edited in any way, the superannuation will not automatically adjust to the new amount. You will be required to make a manual super adjustment in the payslip if required.