For Contractors

For Clients
Engagement Options
Piecework
Recruitment/Selection
What Clients Say

Legal Authority

TCS administers the contractor payments and conditions

You no longer need to worry about:-

Award Wages
Sick Leave,
Penalty Rates,
Annual Leave pay and loading,
Public Holidays,
Superannuation,
Workers Compensation,
FBT,
Redundancy and Severance packages,
Unfair Dismissal,
Equal Opportunity legislation,
Federal and State Industrial Relations legislation,
Union Award/EBA rules, eg:-preference, demarcation, seniority, maternity leave, etc.

For Clients

Tasmanian Contracting Services removes recruitment concerns and hiring restrictions, eliminates payroll administration and simplifies paperwork.

Flexibility

You keep any particular contractor for as long or as short a time as you like. If you decide a contractor's services are no longer needed, you simply let us know, and the contract is then closed or a replacement contractor is sent. As your needs change, so you can alter your use of agency contracting. You are not locked in to lengthy & complex legal contracts.

You can negotiate unit (piecework) rates with the agency that link your labour costs directly to the productivity of the contractor, or team of contractors. A fixed labour cost per item sold/produced? - Now that gives you real control of your costs!

Cost Effectiveness

For every dollar paid to people working under an award, there is a further 56% to be added in on-costs, i.e. if the pay rate for an award worker is $15.00 per hour, the real cost to the employer for every hour actually worked is $23.40.

In addition to the real cost, there are potentially further savings in clerical costs resulting from reduced paperwork, recording and ongoing maintenance of existing administrative systems.

When your business uses a licensed Odco

Contracting agency, you can -

choose contractors from the agency list on an as-needs basis,
recommend workers you would like to engage,
decide when and for how long to use the contractors skills,
check work is completed on time and according to your satisfaction,
pay an agreed contract rate for the contractors' services to the agency on a weekly basis and,

Tasmanian Contracting Services fully administers the needs and obligations of the contractors.

Commercial Benefits

You can respond to fluctuating demands for staffing.
Award restrictions on your operations are eliminated.
TCS Contractors are independent business people with a business attitude to work.
Enables payment structured according to market forces and productivity.
Utilising a licensed TCS is effectively outsourcing your personnel administration.

Payment Arrangements

The pay period can be weekly or fortnightly, with a capacity to pay incentives/commissions differently (for example monthly). The relative billing period will run from Monday - Sunday, either weekly or fortnightly, with payments to contractors on Tuesday evening or Wednesday morning.

This enables the individuals to undertake work as independent contractors without the requirement to absorb the administrative workload. They do not require an ABN or to be registered for GST.

TCS' internal payroll reporting functions are both flexible and detailed and can provide clients with detailed analyses.