The owners of a western Sydney restaurant are in court after allegedly underpaying an Indian worker by more than $150,000. The Fair Work Ombudsman has described the alleged wage theft as "extremely serious and completely unacceptable". Indian worker allegedly underpaid…
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…
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 former operators of a Chinese restaurant are facing court, accused of ripping off a kitchen hand by $70,000. The Fair Work Ombudsman also alleges the employer provided false time and wage records to inspectors. Chinese restaurant operators accused of…
The owner of a Gold Coast restaurant has avoided legal action after being caught underpaying his workers more than $54,000. Instead of taking Sridhar Penumechchu (pictured) to court for wage theft, the Fair Work Ombudsman offered him an Enforceable Undertaking.…
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…
The operators of a Degani café have been penalised over $140,000 for underpaying staff. They also gave inspectors false records to try and cover up the wage theft. Degani café penalised for deliberate wage theft Sajid Amin runs and part-owns the Degani…
Melbourne restaurants and cafes along a popular dining strip in the CBD have been raided by Fair Work inspectors. The raids follow multiple complaints of widespread wage theft in the area. Inspectors conducted spot checks on at least 40 businesses…
The Fair Work Ombudsman is targeting Sydney's Newtown dining strip in its latest wage theft blitz. The audit campaign is the result of a number of anonymous complaints of wage theft from workers in the area. In fact, the area…
The hospitality sector is rife with wage theft, yet the industry's silence about the problem is deafening. In fact, at a gathering of industry leaders in Melbourne recently, the issue didn't come up. Organisers of the Restaurant Leaders Summit failed…
