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…
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 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…
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…
Just two weeks before the Queensland parliamentary inquiry into wage theft gets underway, St Vincent’s Private Hospital Toowoomba has written to a number of former administration staff informing them they have been underpaid. The letter was sent at the same…
