Queensland Unions have backed an in-principle recommendation to jail dodgy employers who deliberately or recklessly underpay workers. The recommendation was one of 17 contained in the State Government’s response to
A landmark study has found wage theft is endemic across Australia with a quarter of international students and a third of backpackers earning $12 or less per hour, around half
Coffee chain Zarraffa’s appears to be in hot water as one of its franchisees has signed a false affidavit to have an agreement approved by the Fair Work Commission (FWC).
The short exercise of adding up the wage theft reported to media by the Fair Work Ombudsman over just six months of 2017 reaches an eye-watering $3.55 million* from the
A new union-commissioned report – The Consequences of Wage Suppression for Australia’s Superannuation System – shows that the impact of wage theft grows to billions of dollars over time. The
Australian workers have lost out on more than $17 billion in superannuation payments since 2009 from shonky operators and businesses now at the centre of tax office and government probes.
The Capalaba Sports Club provides an example of how an employer can apply the existing Better Off Over-all Test to one set of circumstances for the purpose of passing the
Dominos is another recent example of a franchise operation in which underpayment is rife.
7 Eleven brought large scale non-compliance to national attention with Fair Work Ombudsman investigation that started in 2014. Not only was there evidence of underpayments but fraudulent records were kept
Queensland Unions are joining an Australia-wide campaign to improve the lives of employees juggling work with caring and parenting responsibilities. The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) today released survey
