Media Release
31 August, 2020
Retail sector has one week to avoid SG Amnesty penalties
With just one week remaining until the SG Amnesty ends, time is running out for employers to declare...
Fair Work Inspectors have recovered more than $40 million for 18,000 underpaid employees during 2018-19, finds the Fair Work Ombudsman’s (FWO) latest Annual Report.
This is claimed to be the highest total recoveries...
Westside Petroleum and three of its management staff will pay a total of $57,000 in penalties. This comes after underpaying 22 employees a total of $62,393.
The underpayments occurred from July 2015 to...
The Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) has accused the former operators of a petrol station on the NSW Central Coast of underpaying two migrant workers more than $50,000.
Kamaldeep Singh and his wife Uma Singh...
Caltex has defended itself following a recent report by the Fair Work Ombudsman over its franchisee wage practices.
The report claims a former Caltex franchisee in Sydney falsified wage records.
FWO Natalie James says...
The Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) has secured almost $200,000 in penalties against the operators of a 7-Eleven outlet in Brisbane for short-changing overseas workers – then creating false records to try to cover it...
A NSW roadhouse manager has been ordered to pay $118,440 in penalties after being caught out by the Fair Work Ombudsman after trying to deprive an Indian employee of her government-funded parental-leave...
The Federal Circuit Court has imposed penalties totalling $192,961 on the former operators of two Brisbane CBD 7-Eleven stores for short-changing workers by more than $31,000.
The penalties are the result of a...
