Employment Hero runs HR, payroll, and Fair Work compliance for SMBs; //AIRGAPT signs each work event so the record survives the new criminal wage-theft regime.
Employment Hero manages HR, payroll, and compliance for Australian and global SMBs.
From 1 January 2025, wage theft is a criminal offence in Australia. The Fair Work Ombudsman (FY2024–25: A$358m recovered for ~249,000 workers) treats inadequate records as the single largest evidential liability for employers. An Employment Hero time entry the payroll admin can correct is, by Fair Work standards, inadequate.
//AIRGAPT signs each work event with the employee's own FIDO2 key and returns it to Employment Hero via REST API; the existing HR and payroll workflow is unchanged.
A signed entry says: this work happened at this time, and the worker chose it. Where the Fair Work Agency can demonstrate that out-of-hours work occurred, //AIRGAPT shows it was the worker's voluntary act, not the employer's instruction. //AIRGAPT proves timing and attribution; Employment Hero continues to compute pay.
Australia: Fair Work criminal wage-theft (commencement 1 Jan 2025); new Fair Work Agency record-keeping enforcement; NES obligations.
Honest scope: //AIRGAPT proves when work happened and who initiated it, not the amount owed; that stays with Employment Hero/the customer's HRIS. Windows endpoints today.
"Employment Hero runs the Fair Work framework. //AIRGAPT signs each work event so the same record answers a Fair Work Agency inquiry, not just an internal payroll run."
One REST API. No new hardware. Works alongside Employment Hero without replacing any existing workflow.