About WageCheq
For Australian clients, WageCheq consultancy is staffed by:
- Industry experts to spot structural / compliance issues and reconcile even recent changes to law
- Data professionals to process historic client pay data
- and a team of Auditors to further validate that data
WageCheq was established in 2023 by a collective of industrial relations professionals with many years of combined experience in wage compliance, employment law, and audit methodology.
The foundation of WageCheq lies in a sophisticated audit framework and software system first conceived in 2002 — a proven methodology that has been deployed repeatedly across complex wage and entitlement audits.
Driven by the vision to bring this system to scale, WageCheq reimagined the model using state-of-the-art technology and data systems. Our mission is to make high-integrity compliance accessible to a wider audience — delivering clarity, accuracy, and confidence in every payroll check.
Darren Nelson
Director
Darren has 35+ years of experience across all aspects of Industrial Relations (IR). He has provided IR support, as well as leadership for more than three decades across a diverse range of organisations in the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors.
Darren brings expertise and a track record of accomplishment in identifying and executing innovative, practical, and workable strategies that enable organisations to maintain compliance with their employment obligations. His specialist areas include:
- End to end employment solutions
- Award Mapping and interpretation
- Payroll auditing, under and overpayment identification, and salary reconciliation
- Risk assessment and compliance obligations
- Agreement negotiation
- Gap analysis
Darren Nelson
Stephen Sasse
Director
With 30+ years of experience in corporate industrial relations, Stephen has a deep understanding of the Award and Enterprise Agreement systems. His extensive industry experience has seen him work across a range of industries including resources, infrastructure, building, manufacturing, aged care, and government.
He has held senior executive positions within both local and international companies where he has been responsible for industrial relations, human resources, and health and safety. His specialist areas include:
- Development and implementation of employment strategies
- Bargaining and industrial disputation
- Payroll review, auditing, and reporting
- Regulatory compliance and risk assessment
- Unfair dismissals
- Elimination of poor work practices
