Most Motor Industry Employers Are Paying Overtime Wrong.They just don't know it yet.
There's a set of overtime rules that applies specifically to your workforce. They're not the BCEA rules. Most employers running motor industry payroll have never read them properly — and MIBCO audits backwards. Two hours. You stop being one of them.
Next Session: 18 June | Microsoft Teams | 2 Hours
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You authorise overtime every week.
You pick a rate. You run the calculation. You process it and move on.
But somewhere in the back of your mind — there's a question you haven't answered. Am I doing this right?
Not BCEA right. Not “feels fair” right. Right according to the specific agreement that governs every employee on your floor — the one with its own thresholds, its own caps, its own rates, and its own rules that differ depending on which type of employee you're paying.
Most employers never find out they've been getting it wrong. Until a dispute lands. And the first thing the other side asks for is your payroll records — going back three years.
That's when underpayments become arrears. Arrears become demands. Demands become hearings. And all of it traces back to one thing: not knowing the rules that actually apply to your workforce.
One session. You find out exactly what those rules are. And you stop guessing for good.
The MIBCO Overtime Masterclass
This is a live, 2-hour masterclass built for motor industry and fuel retail employers who handle HR and payroll in-house.
You sit in knowing there's a gap. You leave knowing exactly how to close it.
Calculation Audit
Verify that basic rate elements match MIBCO requirements exactly.
Overtime Limits
Track daily and weekly hour caps to prevent structural violations.
MIBCO Checkpoints
Get a robust checklist covering shift work and public holidays.
What you handle after this session:
Every situation that trips employers up every week — broken down, applied to your workforce.
The ordinary hours framework
You know the daily and weekly limits for every employee type on your floor, when a reduced meal interval is lawful, and what a compliant compressed working week actually looks like.
The cap — and what sits above it
You know the standard weekly overtime limit, the process for authorising hours beyond it, and the exact notice period that makes it legal.
The ceiling over four weeks
You track cumulative overtime correctly and know when you've hit the maximum.
Rates by employee type
You pay 1.5x when the rules say 1.5x, and 2x when they say 2x. You stop applying one rate across the board and hoping it holds.
Sunday work
You pay the employee who occasionally works Sundays differently from the one who always does. You know the difference. You apply it.
Shift allowances
You know when the shift allowance is owed, which employees it covers, and which it specifically excludes.
Night work
Before you roster anyone on regular late-night shifts, you know exactly what your obligations are beforehand.
Short-time
You know when you can impose it, what you owe on a day you send someone home early, and what happens if it stretches beyond four weeks.
Meal allowances
You pay the right amount for the right employee type. Not one figure across everyone.
"Now I feel far more confident and capable."
MIBCO compliance felt complex. Training with Elleck helped us simplify calculations and clean up our payroll logic immediately.
Angela Bowles
Accounts Manager, Auto Aircon
Common Hesitations
"I haven't had a dispute yet. My payroll must be fine."
No dispute yet doesn't mean no error. It means no one has looked closely enough — yet. Motor industry disputes are retrospective. When they come, they don't look at last month. They look at the last three years. The longer an error runs undetected, the larger the bill when it surfaces. One session costs R999. One backdated dispute costs multiples of that — before you factor in the time, the admin, and the hearing.
"I can find this information online."
You can find the words. What you can't find online is what the words mean when applied to your specific workforce — which employees they cover, where employers consistently misread them, and what the edge cases look like in practice. That's 20 years of applied MIBCO experience in two hours. The document is free. The interpretation is what you're paying for.
"Our payroll system handles overtime automatically."
It calculates what you tell it to. If the inputs are wrong — wrong threshold, wrong rate, wrong employee category — it produces wrong outputs automatically, every single pay run. After this session, you know whether your system is set up correctly. If it isn't, you fix it before someone else finds it.
Here's What You Get
“One avoided dispute pays for this session many times over.”
Next Session: 18 June | Seats are limited — reserve yours before they're gone.
Questions we get asked.
Every overtime dispute
starts the same way.
An employer who didn't know the rule. Applied the wrong one. Got found out three years later.
One session. Two hours. You make sure that employer isn't you.
Next Session: 18 June | Microsoft Teams | 2 Hours
Recording included for every registered attendee.