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Map the risk
Identify where decisions move between roster, time, HR, payroll, credentialing, and care systems.
Industries
Manufacturing
The award is exact. Your pay run should be too.
Manufacturing pay lives in the details: 12-hour span limits, 5-hour break rules, 38-hour overtime thresholds, weekend penalties. Smartta validates every timesheet against versioned award rules — pass, flag, or gate before export, with the clause cited on every finding.
MA000010 and 122+ Modern Awards encoded · clause-level citations · checked every cycle, every worker.
Compliance scan
Week 14 — pre-export
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Flag
Span limit exceeded
12.5h span exceeds 12h max — Clause 36.1
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Gate
Break compliance
6h worked without a break (5h max) — Clauses 18 & 33
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Flag
Weekly overtime
38h threshold crossed — Clause 37
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Ready
Evidence written
Rule version, inputs, and clause — per check
Payroll export
Held until gated lines are reviewed and evidenced.
One misapplied rate isn't one error — it's every worker on that pattern, every cycle, until someone notices.
The decisions we check
Every shift checked against the rules that actually apply.
From the roster to the pay file, the decisions that create underpayment risk in manufacturing are checked before they harden into pay.
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Shadow wage validation
Every pay line replayed against encoded award rules before export — violations carry the clause and the fix.
Payroll Governance →
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Roster to time to pay
Spans, breaks, overtime, and approvals verified across the chain — not discovered at reconciliation.
Time & Pay Control →
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Licences and tickets
Forklift, high-risk work, and machine tickets gated at assignment.
Credentialing →
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Review-ready history
The full check history per worker, per period — the good-faith record, already assembled.
Workforce Assurance →An underpayment caught pre-run is a fix. Caught by the regulator, it's a finding.
The plan
Three steps to safer workforce decisions.
In manufacturing: where roster and time meet the award — spans, breaks, penalties, overtime.
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Control the decision
Configure checks that pass, flag, or gate high-risk workforce decisions before they move downstream.
In manufacturing: every timesheet validated against versioned award rules before export.
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Prove the outcome
Keep decision evidence ready for payroll review, compliance checks, incident response, and operational governance.
In manufacturing: rule version, inputs, and clause recorded per check — defensible by design.
What changes
Pay cycles that don't depend on nobody noticing.
With intentional underpayment now a criminal offence, "we didn't know" depends on proving you checked — every worker, every cycle.
For payroll
Discrepancies arrive before export with the clause and the fix attached.
For operations
Span, break, and overtime breaches flagged while the roster can still change.
For leadership
A standing answer to "are we paying people correctly?" — checked, not asserted.
Manufacturing
See where your pay run drifts from the award.
A short review of how your roster, time, and payroll systems apply the award today — and where checking earlier would remove corrections and exposure.