Posts tagged "fines"

Infringement notices for breaking gift card rules are set to go up after Christmas. Here's what you need to know.

As many as 500,000 company directors are now exposed to criminal penalties of $13,200 after the ATO's amnesty on late Director ID applications passed on Wednesday.

The Victorian government is investigating workplaces that are allegedly failing to abide by COVIDSafe restrictions.

Victorian businesses face hefty penalties if they fail to let authorities know about confirmed coronavirus cases in their workplaces.

The Federal Court has sought to make an example of Hero Sushi outlets caught underpaying workers more than $700,000 in 2016, imposing record penalties.

New wage theft scandals are unlikely to be the last, as corporate Australia reckons with one of the worst worker exploitation scandals in recent memory.

Wesfarmers has become embroiled in another wage theft scandal, after revealing staff at department store Target have been cheated for $9 million.

The government’s threat of jail for bosses engaging in wage theft may be a PR exercise designed to camouflage the blow of big hits to come for workers.

"We hope the parliament will agree that higher penalties are badly and urgently needed to improve the behaviour of companies and protect consumers."

A group of domain name companies who scammed Australian small business owners out of a collective $2.3 million have been penalised by the Au…

Discount retailer The Reject Shop has been ordered to pay a penalty of $140,000 and court costs of $15,000 after Consumer Affairs Victoria dragged it to the Federal Court over concerns the labelling on "UFO" and balloon projectile toys it sold breached safety standards.

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