Posts tagged "worker underpayment"

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

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

In recent years there have been large-scale cases of underpayment involving household names such as Caltex, 7-Eleven and Pizza Hut and Domino's Pizza.

A Sydney day spa operator will pay a $10,000 fine for dipping into worker pay packets over a four year period, signing an undertaking with the FWO.

Fair Work Ombudsman finds wage theft is widespread in regional areas, identifying almost half of employers were breaking the law.

The Fair Work Ombudsman will use new laws to seek tougher penalties for the first time against a Melbourne-based toy retailer.

The Fair Work Ombudsman discovered more than one in five businesses were underpaying workers in a recent audit of regional firms.

The fair work ombudsman says she was "alarmed to discover" the level of ignorance about workplace laws in a targeted audit of first-time SME owners.

The Fair Work Ombudsman is reviewing its use of enforcement tools in the wake of the banking royal commission as it chases higher penalties.

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