Compensation arrears records

Detects compensation arrears and back-pay records for an identified employee: salary/wage arrears calculations, back-pay schedules, underpayment remediation calculations and retrospective pay increases, with arrears amounts or arrears periods.

Type: regex
Engine: boost_regex
Confidence: medium
Confidence justification: Medium: the primary phrases also appear in policies, guidance, blank forms and news, so enforce tiers require a populated field with a non-placeholder value and 85 adds a record-specific populated detail plus independent corroboration. Person and record values are customer-defined, so the field regexes use labelled loose values with a placeholder guard. 85/75 are heuristic evidence tiers, not measured accuracy.
Detection quality: Topic false positive
Jurisdictions: au, global
Regulations: Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth), Fair Work Regulations 2009 (Cth), Industrial Relations Act 2016 (Qld), Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992 (Cth), Privacy Act 1988 (Cth), Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld)
Frameworks: ISO 27001, ISO 27701
Data categories: financial, employment, pii
Scope: wide
Risk rating: 4
Platform compatibility: Purview: Compatible, GCP DLP: Compatible, Macie: Compatible, Zscaler: Compatible, Palo Alto: Degraded, Netskope: Unsupported

Pattern

(?i)\b(?:compensation\s+arrears(?:\s+records?)?|(?:salary|wages?|pay)\s+arrears|arrears\s+(?:payments?|calculations?|of\s+(?:salary|wages|pay))|back[\s-]pay(?:ments?)?(?:\s+(?:calculations?|schedules?|records?|letters?))?|underpayment\s+(?:remediation|rectification|calculations?)|wage\s+underpayments?|retrospective\s+(?:pay(?:\s+increases?)?|salary\s+increases?|payments?))\b

Corroborative evidence keywords

remediation, interest, superannuation, award, enterprise agreement, classification, rectified, pay run

Proximity: 300 characters

Should match

Back pay calculation - underpayment remediation Employee name: Avery Teston Classification: Level 3 Arrears period: 01/07/2023 to 30/06/2026 Wage arrears: $8,412.55 Superannuation shortfall: $967.44 Interest: $1,104.20 Remediation payment to be made in the next pay run. — 85: back-pay remediation calculation with employee, period, arrears, super shortfall and interest
Salary arrears - retrospective pay increase Staff number: 30219 Amount owing: $1,236.00 For the period from 01/01/2026 to 30/06/2026 under the enterprise agreement. — 85: salary arrears for a retrospective increase with staff number, amount owing and enterprise agreement
Compensation arrears record for employee: Jordan Staffson - calculation pending. — 75: arrears record naming the employee, calculation pending
back pay — 65: bare phrase only - discovery tier

Should not match

The Fair Work Ombudsman has secured $1.2 million in back pay for 300 workers, according to a media release. — Regulator news - must stay at or below 65
Back pay calculation Employee name: __________ Arrears period: __/__/____ Wage arrears: $______ — Blank calculation template - must stay at or below 65
Employers who find a wage underpayment should fix it quickly and pay any back pay owed. This fact sheet explains the steps. — Guidance - must stay at or below 65
unrelated generic text without domain phrases — No relevant topic phrases present

Known false positives

Policies, procedures, regulator guidance, fact sheets and training material that name the record type. Mitigation: Enforce tiers require populated fields; guidance has labels without values, and policy/guidance/training/media-release framing is excluded by the NOT-group.
Blank forms, templates and system configuration screens. Mitigation: Blank lines, bracket placeholders, XXX and n/a/tbc values are rejected by the placeholder guard; template/fixture words are excluded by template-exclusion.
News, statistics and vendor marketing. Mitigation: No populated person or record fields, so these stay at 65 discovery.
Enterprise agreement back-pay clauses and pay-rate schedules. Mitigation: No populated person field; they stay at 65.