The Fair Work Ombudsman has recovered $404,721 in wages for 623 underpaid workers after investigating employers in Brisbane’s food precincts.
Fair Work Inspectors investigated 77 businesses across a range of suburbs, including Brisbane CBD, South Brisbane, Fortitude Valley and Sunnybank. They found 75 per cent of businesses had breached workplace … Read the rest
The Fair Work Ombudsman has commenced legal action against the former operators of a Vietnamese bakery in Melbourne.
Facing court are VUF Investments Pty Ltd, which formerly operated ‘Luke’s Bakery’ in Reservoir, and its sole director, Hoang Long Vu.
The regulator began an … Read the rest
The Fair Work Ombudsman recovered more than $532 million for 384,805 underpaid workers in 2021-22. This is a record sum of back-paid wages and entitlements for a record number of employees.
That is an overall average of about $1,380 per person.
The recoveries, detailed in the workplace regulator’s latest Annual … Read the rest
29 September 2022.
The Fair Work Ombudsman has commenced legal action against the operators of a take-away food outlet in Melbourne.
Facing court are The Carers Portland Inc, which operates ‘HCM Café Fresh Q Lunch’ based at Dandenong South, and its secretary, … Read the rest
What happens when an employer does not pay an employee correctly in Australia?
In Australia there are laws that can enforce compliance with employees pay rights.
A recent example is the following:
In May 2021, a Fair Work Inspector issued a Compliance Notice to Skyjohn Pty Ltd after forming a … Read the rest
