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 wage theft.…
Fair Work inspectors raided a number of bars along Melbourne's popular Chapel Street after receiving complaints of wage theft. The bars targeted by the workplace watchdog are all owned by the La La Bar Group. They include Holy Grail, Electric, Wonderland,…
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…
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…
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…
Pizza Hut employees will now be paid proper fast food industry award rates, including increased penalty rates. The change comes as a result of the Fair Work Commission terminating 30 year-old expired workplace agreements. The fast food chain is the…
Bunnings has been criticised for “banking” their workers' hours in a bid to keep staff in-store during busy periods. Industrial advocates say the hardware chain is "stretching the rules" by manipulating when and how it counts its workers' hours. Bunnings…
Foodora is doing a runner from Australia owing millions in back-pay while defending claims it treated workers unlawfully. In a statement, the food delivery company said it will: “cease operations in response to a shift in focus towards other markets…
