Posts tagged "Fair Entitlements Guarantee Scheme"

ASIC is sparking investigations into a new spate of abandoned companies in a bid to recover unpaid employee entitlements.

Criminal penalties for serious exploitation of migrant workers are on the way after the government accepted a recommendation to take action.

A Sunshine Coast man will spend 30 months in jail after being found guilty of tax fraud involving over $100,000 in false GST claims.

A man convicted of tax fraud related to illegal phoenixing activity will spend six years in jail and pay $1.8 million in reparations.

Businesses are being warned about the dangers of adverse action after a director was fined for sacking a worker that approached fair work with a complaint.

A business owner convicted of illegal phoenix activity will spend five years in prison, amid a broader crackdown on the black economy.

Directors engaging in illegal phoenixing will be named and shamed under a new Labor policy designed to crack down on black economy activity.

The Fair Work Ombudsman will receive new powers to pursue company directors under laws that passed the lower house this week

The federal government is planning to introduce new legislation that would make it easier to punish company directors who try to shirk their…

By Jason Harris, University of Technology Sydney

In a very rare move, the federal government plans to use its position as a creditor to …

  Australia’s corporate watchdog used its wind-up powers to appoint liquidators to 31 abandoned companies in the 2014-15 financial year, …