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Employment solutions that work as hard as your crew
Between site crews, subcontractors and compliance obligations, running a construction business is complex enough.
Employment Hero handles employment, so you can focus on what gets built.
Trusted by construction and building businesses globally
What’s slowing your construction business down?
PAIN POINT #1
Paper timesheets don’t make it cleanly to payroll
When site hours are recorded on paper, errors can happen before the data even reaches the office. Hours go missing, disputes follow and someone ends up chasing approvals just before the pay run.
✦ EMPLOYMENT HERO
Workers clock in from their phone and it’s GPS-verified and time-stamped. Approved timesheets flow straight into the pay run.
PAIN POINT #2
One expired licence can slow down your site
Whether it’s white cards, working at heights certificates, first aid or forklift licences, managing safety is the highest priority. When any of these lapse and someone is already on site, you have a WHS issue and potentially a project delay.
✦ EMPLOYMENT HERO
Store all certifications centrally against each worker’s profile. Employment Hero sends expiry alerts before licenses lapse, so you’re not caught off guard.
PAIN POINT #3
Construction payroll is complicated and errors are costly.
Tradespeople, labourers, admin staff and project managers often sit across different Modern Awards and employment types. Getting classifications right and staying across penalty rates, site allowances, travel pay and overtime for each, is where errors can happen.
✦ EMPLOYMENT HERO
Set each employee’s award and classification, and Employment Hero applies the award rules, including overtime, penalty rates and allowances, to their timesheets.
PAIN POINT #4
More sites shouldn’t mean more admin
Taking on new projects is the goal. But every new site adds another layer of contracts, inductions, records and payroll checks. Growth starts to create its own problems.
✦ EMPLOYMENT HERO
A new hire can receive their contract, complete their induction, upload certifications and be payroll-ready before their first day. As your project list grows, HR, payroll and compliance stay connected across every site from one platform.
Still doing this manually? It’s time to automate
Mobile clock-in for site workers
Site workers can clock in and out from their phone, with GPS location checks and optional photo capture at clock-in.
Timesheets feed directly into payroll, removing manual data entry and the disputes that come from paper-based records. No more Friday afternoon calls trying to reconcile who worked which hours.
Run payroll with modern awards built in
Set each employee’s award and classification, and Employment Hero’s pay conditions engine applies that award’s overtime, penalty rate and allowance rules to their timesheets.
Digital onboarding from day one
New starter on Monday? They can sign their contract, complete their tax and super details and sign off your site policies before they arrive. You can see what’s done and nudge what’s not, so they can hit the ground running from their very first day.
AI recruitment for volume hiring
When a project kicks off and you need qualified tradies fast, Employment Hero’s AI Recruitment Agent is your shortcut. It scores applicants against your criteria, runs the screening interviews and hands you a shortlist, so your time goes on talking to the strongest candidates. What used to take a week of manual CV reviews takes minutes, so you can get the right people on site quickly.
How one residential builder doubled their team without doubling their admin
Arli Homes
Residential Construction | 30+ employees | Victoria
THE CHALLENGE
Before Employment Hero, Arli Homes managed HR through a patchwork of SharePoint folders and Excel spreadsheets. As the business prepared to expand into two new divisions, the gaps became impossible to ignore. Contracts were signed manually. Employee records were scattered. Safety compliance and HR lived in separate systems. Things were getting missed, and the business was about to scale rapidly.
“Employment Hero gives us a base for HR that we didn’t have before. It’s like having a temporary HR person until we need one full-time. It gives a level of comfort knowing the foundations are there. We can now build on it as we grow.”
— Samantha Calleja, HR & Systems Lead, Arli Homes
OUTCOMES
100% digital HR, contracts, records and compliance in one place
Doubled headcount with no increase in HR admin overhead
Automated onboarding replaced manual spreadsheet processes
Managing compliance in construction
Construction is a heavily regulated employment environment in Australia. From award coverage to safety documentation and Payday Super, Employment Hero handles the admin so you can keep your projects moving.
Award coverage
Building and Construction General On-site Award 2020
Labourers and site hands are often covered by the Building and Construction General On-site Award 2020 (MA000020), but your office team may sit under another award. Set the award and classification for each employee, and Employment Hero’s pay conditions engine applies the overtime, penalty rate and allowance rules to their timesheets.
Super reform
Manage your Payday Super obligations with ease
Super now follows payday, with contributions due in your employees’ funds within seven business days. HeroClear, built into Employment Hero Payroll, calculates super, checks fund details and sends payments when you finalise a pay run.
WHS documentation
Compliance records and inductions
Site paperwork has to be in order before work starts, and chasing it across inboxes and folders is nobody’s favourite job. With Employment Hero, your team can upload their certifications and licences, and you can set expiry dates so reminders go out before they lapse. You can also run a certifications report to see who’s got what and what’s outstanding.
Expense management
Allowances and expense management
Allowances and expenses shouldn’t mean extra spreadsheets. Your team submits expense claims from the Employment Hero Work app, a manager approves them and approved expenses go into your next pay run.
Employment Hero works alongside the tools your business already runs on
Jonas Premier (Jonas Premier Export)
Built for construction and land development, Jonas Premier connects with Employment Hero so payroll and job costing stay in sync without manual re-entry.
Simpro (via SyncEzy)
If your team runs job management through Simpro, Employment Hero syncs in the background, keeping trade, service, maintenance, and project data aligned with payroll.
Traffio
Rosters and daily scheduling flow straight through from Traffio, so your team spends less time on manual coordination and more time on the job.
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Frequently asked questions
Yes. You can run more than one modern award in the same payroll. Set up each person's award and classification, and the pay conditions engine applies the rules for pay rates, penalty rates, overtime and allowances to their timesheets. Which award applies depends on the work someone does, so your site workers, office staff and managers may each sit under a different one. The Fair Work Ombudsman's Find my Award tool can help you check.
Yes. Set up the tickets your sites need, like White Cards, working at heights and first aid, and assign them to the right people. Your team uploads their documents, managers approve them and Employment Hero sends email reminders as renewals approach. Mandatory certifications trigger weekly reminders until they're done and a certifications report shows you what's outstanding. Your compliance records stay current and audit-ready.
Workers download the Employment Hero app and clock in from their phone at the start of each shift. GPS location and optional photo verification confirm they're on site. Turn on geofencing and they can only clock in from the sites you've approved. When someone clocks out, their timesheet is created for that shift, you approve it and the hours go into the pay run.
Absolutely. Employment Hero is designed for businesses with fluctuating workforce needs. You can onboard new employees quickly, manage changing rosters and offboard cleanly when projects wrap, all within the same platform.
With Employment Hero, a new hire can receive their contract, complete their induction, upload certifications and be payroll-ready before their first shift.
Everything employment,
all in one place.
