A Gold Coast call centre operator has back-paid more than $77,000 to 43 employees in order to avoid court action for breaching workplace laws. The Fair Work Ombudsman offered Global Interactive Operations Pty Ltd, based at Broadbeach, the chance to…
A number of bars along Melbourne's popular Chapel Street were raided by Fair Work inspectors on Wednesday night after a number of workers made complaints about underpayments. The bars targeted by the workplace watchdog are all owned by the La…
There are renewed calls for the federal government to introduce criminal sanctions for wage theft, following the revelation that celebrity chef George Calombaris underpaid hundreds of workers almost $8 million. The latest underpayments scandal follows another last year, when Calombaris…
A Sydney-based labour-hire company has avoided court action for deliberate wage theft, after entering into an Enforceable Undertaking with the Fair Work watchdog. Under the terms of the agreement, the company has agreed to back pay a Chinese student who…
Industrial Relations Claims is reminding employers that the new national minimum wage is now in effect, increasing to $19.49 per hour, or $740.80 per week. According to the Fair Work Ombudsman, compliance issues can often be traced back to when…
A group of security guards who didn't receive their proper wages after working at the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast in 2018 have finally been back-paid, following action by the Fair Work Ombudsman. The background Security services were contracted…
Business lobby groups that continually claim that wage theft is not deliberate, but rather the result of 'innocent' mistakes made by employers are nonsense, according to industrial relations experts. "We constantly hear from business groups that wage theft shouldn't even…
Fair Work Ombudsman Sandra Parker has promised a stronger approach to enforcement against businesses that commit wage theft, but the regulator will still give priority to vulnerable groups like overseas workers instead of Australian nationals. The stronger focus on enforcement…
A Victorian fruit farmer has been penalised $144,000 for deliberately underpaying two Malaysian fruit pickers, and then using false documents to try and cover it up. Zucco Farming Pty Ltd, which operates a stone fruit farm near Swan Hill, has…
The operator of an Indian restaurant in Sydney is facing court action for allegedly failing to pay compensation to a cook who had been unfairly dismissed. The compensation was ordered by the Fair Work Commission last year, after it found…
