Can you onboard contractors through an EOR? Yes. The ATO is now matching your payroll data against what the fund received, and the letters have started.
Victoria said work from home would be protected in law from 1 September. On 10 September the Legislative Council sent the Bill to a select committee instead, and there is still no right and no obligation.
The ATO does not make you pay super on a non-resident employee working outside Australia. That is a clean rule with a messy consequence: the 12 percent you never spend is not margin, it is the budget for employing that person properly somewhere else.
The ATO says contractors paid mainly for their labour are eligible for super guarantee. The exemption is for non-resident employees working outside Australia. Residency and location decide it, not the contract.
An EOR fee is a published number. What your own entity costs to maintain is not, and Australia's move to payday super this year is a worked example of who ends up carrying a rule change.
A record 6.9 per cent of Australians now hold more than one job. That familiarity is doing damage to how founders read the contractor test, and the ATO's list never mentioned other clients.