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…
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…
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…
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…
Many inner city cafes and restaurants charged customers a public holiday surcharge today, despite recent cuts to penalty rates for hospitality staff. Since July 2017, workers in hospitality have had their weekend and public holiday penalty rates slashed by 15…
Brisbane hospitality workers are this morning staging a protest outside the office of Federal MP Ross Vasta to mark the second anniversary of the government's decision to cut penalty rates. Mr Vasta voted eight times since February 2017 to cut…
Qantas has admitted to underpaying 55 workers thousands of dollars after it discovered it had employed them under individual contracts instead of enterprise agreements. The embarrassing bungle resulted in the workers being shortchanged an average of $8,000 a year over…
Pizza Hut employees will be paid proper fast food industry award rates, including increased penalty rates, after 30 year-old expired workplace agreements were terminated by the Fair Work Commission. The fast food chain is the latest business to have its…
Hardware superstore Bunnings Warehouse has been criticised for its policy of “banking” their workers' hours, in a bid to keep staff in-store during peak periods. Employment law experts say the hardware chain is "stretching the rules" by manipulating when and…
