Boeing Australia has identified some issues in the accrual of leave entitlements and payments associated with public holidays as part of a proactive payroll compliance review.
What this means is that, inadvertently there have been incorrect leave accruals and payments for some current and former employees. These have been both under and over accruals/payments.
Some current and former employees from the following entities have been identified as being affected:
Boeing Australia is also continuing to undertake further analysis of other Boeing Australia entities and will have more to report soon.
We sincerely apologise for the inconvenience this may have caused current or former employees.
Boeing Australia is committed to fixing and remediating these issues as soon as practicable and taking steps to ensure the issues identified do not occur again. We are working transparently with our employees, representative employee groups and unions.
We have voluntarily disclosed the matter to the Fair Work Ombudsman and relevant Long Service Leave Regulators. We will also work through next steps with the Australian Taxation Office and Offices of State Revenue.
If you worked for one of the entities listed above and you are impacted by this issue, you will be contacted directly by a member of the Boeing Australia Payroll Compliance Program team.
If you have queries, please email BDAPRProgram@exchange.boeing.com or call 1800 975 117.
No. If you have been impacted, you will receive an email or letter from the Boeing Australia Payroll Compliance Program team which will outline any issues specific to you, and next steps.
As soon as we became aware of the issue, we engaged with independent forensic accountants, KPMG, to undertake a comprehensive analysis of payroll data for current and in-scope former employees. We also corrected our payroll system to ensure the issues identified do not occur again.
Boeing has conducted an extensive and thorough analysis of data, provided detailed instructions to and engaged KPMG as independent, expert forensic accountants to prepare the numbers.
Yes, where applicable, interest has been calculated in accordance with court rules on applicable underpayments and superannuation has been calculated at the current guarantee rate of 12%.
Superannuation is not payable on leave adjustments or back payments related to leave. If there is an underpayment related to public holidays owing, superannuation is payable for both current and former employees.
