A grocery store owner has been penalised $121,000 for ripping off two migrant workers with "deliberate and significant" wage theft. The employer paid the workers as little as $10 an hour, underpaying them a total of $13,997 over a four…
The new national minimum wage and penalty rate cuts are now in effect. The minimum wage is now $19.49 per hour, or $740.80 per week. The Fair Work Ombudsman says many businesses get caught out underpaying workers at this time…
Claims by business groups that wage theft is 'innocent' are nonsense, according to industrial advocates. Business lobby groups continually claim that underpayments are not deliberate, but rather happen as a result of 'innocent' mistakes by employers. Miles Heffernan from Industrial…
Customers are being hit with a public holiday surcharge at cafes and restaurants. despite recent cuts to penalty rates. From July 2017, hospitality workers had their weekend and public holiday penalty rates slashed by 15 percent. Despite this, cafes and…
The operators of a major service station chain are facing court, accused of deliberate and systematic wage theft. As a result, the company, and three of its managers, are facing tens of thousands of dollars in penalties. Service station chain…
Brisbane hospitality workers are protesting penalty rate cuts outside the office of Federal MP Ross Vasta. Today marks the second anniversary of the government's decision to cut penalty rates. Vasta voted eight times since February 2017 to cut weekend penalty…
A Caltex service station franchisee has been penalised $77,708 for falsifying records to cover up wage theft from migrant workers. The Federal Circuit Court penalised Mohammad Rana $11,540 and his company, Abdul Wahid and Sons Pty Ltd, $66,168. Caltex service…
Qantas has admitted to an embarrassing underpayment bungle involving 220 workers. Qantas discovered it had mistakenly employed the workers under individual contracts instead of enterprise agreements. As a result, the airline underpaid the workers an average of $8,000 a year…
A major fashion retailer will finally be forced to pay its workers proper award wages and entitlements. The change comes as a result of the Fair Work Commission terminating an outdated Enterprise Agreement. Fashion retailer forced to pay proper wages…
A 7-Eleven operator has been penalised $336,000 for running an illegal cash-back scheme. This one involved three international students made to withdraw and pay back part of their wages. Workers ripped off at two separate businesses The Federal Circuit Court…
