Posts tagged "underpaying workers"

Small businesses that underpay workers could be hit with 50% higher civil penalties, under the federal government’s industrial relations reform bill.

Melbourne cafe Barry and its operators have been fined $232,545 after the Federal Circuit Court ruled they deliberately underpaid 73 employees by more than $180,000 over a period of 12 months. 

Australian employers too often think about workplace culture only in relation to full-time employees. It's time to consider shift workers as well.

By underpaying his workers, George Calombaris broke a promise to his employees. And that broken promise led to the collapse of MAdE Entertainment.

The collapse of George Calombaris' restaurant empire has thrown the future of several other business operators into the air as the fallout from the wage theft scandal spreads across Melbourne.

Underpaid pieceworkers could be compensated according to minimum hourly award rates, following an appeal by the Fair Work Ombudsman.

A Coffee Club franchisee is facing fines of almost $150,000 for allegedly underpaying two young workers and falsifying payslips.

With all the George Calombaris news, you have to ask: are we all guilty of underpaying? Not just in business, but as customers?

The Fair Work Ombudsman has secured its second major financial penalty of 2019, with a Melbourne Cafe being found to have underpaid 54 workers.

Touchpoint Media has been found to have "deliberately" underpaid 23 staff $305,780, in what a judge said was a "bitter and humiliating experience" for workers.

Cosmetics and beauty retailer LUSH has revealed more than 5,000 of its Australian staff were underpaid $2 million in wages over eight years.

A national coffee chain has been booted off the government’s controversial PaTH employment scheme following allegations it was underpaying…