National parcel delivery company Couriers Please has admitted underpaying staff by $382,000. The underpayments happened as a result of the company failing to allow paid meal breaks over eight years. It has now entered into an Enforceable Undertaking with the…
A Melbourne travel agent has been penalised $400,000 for underpaying two migrant workers. The wage theft involved an illegal cash-back scheme the business said was a condition of sponsoring the employees' visas. Travel agent penalised for cash-back scam Abella Travel,…
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, based at Broadbeach, the chance to enter into…
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…
A labour-hire company has agreed to back pay 19 overseas workers and change the way it manages its workforce to avoid legal action by the Fair Work Ombudsman. Agri-Labour Australia, which is based in Brisbane, has signed an Enforceable Undertaking…
The Fair Work Ombudsman has been criticised for letting the operator of a supermarket chain off the hook, despite the business underpaying three workers almost $75,000. The FWO has agreed to enter into an Enforceable Undertaking agreement with Ying "Alex"…
A major foreign exchange business that underpaid its workers more than $1.2 million over seven years has escaped legal action by signing an agreement with the Fair Work Ombudsman promising to pay back the money. The agreement has been slammed…
