In a letter to the Sydney Morning Herald this week, 7-Eleven CEO Angus McKay has disputed a claim made in the publication that “7-Eleven was systematically underpaying wages and doctoring payroll records”...
A former Brisbane 7-Eleven operator has been hit with $168,000 in penalties for short-changing workers and falsifying records to conceal the underpayments.
The orders imposed by the Federal Circuit Court were the result...
Low penalties are creating an incentive for unprincipled employers to breach record-keeping laws, according to Fair Work Ombudsman Natalie James.
Speaking in Canberra this week, she said her agency was seeing more and...
Fuel giant Caltex has established a fund to compensate underpaid workers from dozens of its franchisee stores.
Caltex says it is conducting an audit of 133 of its retail sites across the country...
ACAPMA says the issue of wage underpayment has not gone away, with CEO Mark McKenzie last week attending a major forum to discuss the problem in Australian workplaces.
Council of Small Business Australia...
The Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) has identified instances of non-compliance at United Petroleum retail fuel sites, with more than 40 per cent of audited outlets found to be underpaying employees.
The FWO began...
The Fair Work Ombudsman wants to educate employees and businesses on the myths that are contributing to a worrying number of young workers being underpaid around Australia.
Fair Work Ombudsman Natalie James says...
Another 7-Eleven outlet in Brisbane is facing court for allegedly short-changing overseas workers thousands of dollars and creating false records to try to cover it up.
The Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) has announced...
