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 call centre operator has back-paid more than $77,000 to 43 employees to avoid court action for breaching workplace laws. The Fair Work Ombudsman offered the company an Enforceable Undertaking agreement, instead of taking court action for the underpayments. Call…
There are renewed calls for wage theft to be made a crime following revelations George Calombaris underpaid workers $8 million. The latest underpayments scandal follows another last year, when the celebrity chef back-paid $2.6 million to employees. Fellow celebrity chef…
A labour-hire company has avoided court action for wage theft, after entering into an Enforceable Undertaking with Fair Work. Under the terms of the agreement, the Sydney-based company agreed to back-pay a Chinese student. The underpayments totalled $12,933 for a…
Fair Work has let a massage centre off the hook, despite the owners underpaying 22 workers almost $40,000. Instead of taking court action, the workplace watchdog has offered the company the chance to enter into an Enforceable Undertaking. The agreement…
A labour-hire company has agreed to back-pay 19 overseas workers to avoid legal action by the Fair Work Ombudsman. It has also promised to change the way it manages its workforce. Brisbane-based Agri-Labour Australia signed an Enforceable Undertaking with the…
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…
