Summary

Use this entity to create a list of countries needed to populate a country for the following purposes

These codes are used in:

• Country where employee's driver's license was issued - see D/L Country Code field on the Employees - Personal (ii) tab.
• Employee's postal address - see Employees - Postal tab.
• Employee's residential address - see Employees - Residential tab
• Prior tax country/home country for Inbound Assignee or Working Holiday Maker employees - See Employees - Tax tab
• Employee's next of kin's address - see Employee Next of Kin - Contact Details tab
• Employee's beneficiary of an ETP payment - Employee Terminations - Beneficiary tab
• Employer's address - Internal Companies - Details tab
• Physical location of the company the PG database belongs to - see Company Settings - Location tab
• Postal address of the of the company the PG database belongs to - see Company Settings - Postal Details tab.
• Incident Investigator's contact address - Incident Investigations - Contact Details tab.
• Work Cover Other Employers address - see WorkCover Other Employers - Details
• Recruitment Applicants address - see Applicants - Contact Details tab

Recommended set-up

Populate each field as described below:

• Country Code - Apply the 2 char ISO3166 code

  Note: STP in Australia relies on this field. If an invalid value is detected, the country code won't be reported. Not reporting a country code, e.g. Inbound Assignee to Australia employees will result in a STP filing error.

• Description - Apply the ISO3166 country name
• ISO3166 3 character code - Apply the 3 char ISO3166 code

  Note: Payday Filing in New Zealand relies on this field. If an invalid value is detected, the country code won't be reported. Not reporting a country code, e.g. Inbound Assignee to Australia employees will result in a STP filing error.

ISO 3166

ISO 3166 is the International Standard for country codes.

The purpose of ISO 3166 is to define internationally recognised codes of letters and/or numbers that we can use when we refer to countries.

Using codes saves time and avoids errors as instead of using a country's name (which will change depending on the language being used) we can use a combination of letters and/or numbers that are understood all over the world.

The country codes can be represented either as a two-letter code (alpha-2) which is recommended as the general purpose code, a three-letter code (alpha-3) which is more closely related to the country name and a three digit numeric code (numeric -3)

The complete list can be found here: https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#search