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FWO recovers unpaid wages for 200+ sandwich franchise workers
"Improving compliance among franchises and in the food sector are ongoing priorities for the Fair Work Ombudsman."
NDIS plan-management provider gets court date for underpayments
The former worker was found to have been underpaid his benefits as well as the full-time minimum wage, payment-in-lieu-o...
Transport operator penalised over unlawful JobKeeper cashback scheme
A judge descibed the conduct of the operator of a Queensland transport business as "reprehensible", "deliberate" and "ca...
Electrical services operator charged over underpayments
The operator of electrical services firm admitted before the court that he was involved in the company’s failure to calc...
Cafe served with court date over alleged violation of workplace laws
The cafe agreed the former employee was owed $7985.10, however, they only paid back $1330.85 (less applicable tax) and m...
McDonald’s faces massive court claim over “shameful” worker treatment
The SDA wants affected workers to be paid compensation for working through their breaks and for the company to be penali...
Hospitality sector seek wage subsidy to cover employee crisis costs
Despite most states lifting hospitality and venue capacity limits and border restrictions progressively easing, restaura...
Hospital café operators to face court over underpayments
The café operator allegedly underpaid the wages and penalty rates of two visa-holder workers and failed to comply with a...
FWO recovers wages for underpaid Adelaide cleaners
The most common breaches were failures to pay penalty rates, underpayments of minimum hourly rates of pay and failure to...
Sushi restaurant operator hit with $80,000 in penalties over underpayments
A Fair Work Inspector issued two Compliance Notices on the back of the belief that the workers had not been paid entitle...