Posts tagged "unpaid overtime"

The court case against federal independent parliamentarian Monique Ryan will open the door to legal action “by every Australian worker experiencing exploitation because of a contractual obligation to perform undefined ‘reasonable additional’ hours”.

Australians are working more than five hours of unpaid work every week, according to new research that put the annual figure of unpaid work at nearly $100 billion.

Calombaris' restaurant empire was almost broke before it entered administration after a wage theft scandal left the business without customers.

Celebrity chef George Calombaris' handling of the collapse of his restaurant empire is a lesson for small businesses in how not to communicate with workers.

The latest celebrity-chef-linked wage-theft scandals involving Heston Blumenthal and George Calombaris are the tip of the iceberg for wage exploitation in the hospitality industry.

All up about 13% of the workforce — 19% of men and 6% of women — are working 50 hours or more, putting themselves, and others, at risk.

Australian workers are being urged to go home on time today amid a concern about "endemic" levels of overtime this year.