Posts tagged "wage theft"

Most businesses do not set out to deliberately short change their staff, but fall victim to misinterpreting the complex Australian awards structure.

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

A controversial superannuation amnesty program has passed through Parliament, giving employers an opportunity to confess their sins without penalty.

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.

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.

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.

A Melbourne small business will pay a hefty fine to a teenage worker after stealing thousands of dollars in wages and superannuation.

CouriersPlease is still finalising $382,000 in underpayments 12 months after initially discovering it breached workplace laws.

The government says a new Senate inquiry into the causes of wage theft in Australia will be just a "talkfest" following dozens of high profile scandals.

The average Woolworths supermarket stocks more than 20,000 different products, yet the company has had problems tracking employee entitlements.