The owner of a martial arts and fitness centre has been fined a total of $45,936 for underpaying staff and trainees, with some paid as littl…
The owner of a martial arts and fitness centre has been fined a total of $45,936 for underpaying staff and trainees, with some paid as littl…
The former owners of an Ali Baba kebab chain store have been fined $136,000 and forced to back-pay a worker over $50,000, in yet another cas…
The Fair Work Ombudsman has been on the prowl in the past few days, imposing underpayment fines and cracking down on the treatment of migran…
The Fair Work Ombudsman today announced a new focus on educating employers and employees about the legitimacy of schemes for unpaid work exp…
The Fair Work Ombudsman will prosecute the operator of two Melbourne IT businesses for allegedly misclassifying employees as independent con…
The Fair Work Ombudsman has issued a warning to employers to check pay rates and entitlements over the Christmas and New Year public holiday…
A Queensland businessman has been fined $17,000 by the Brisbane Magistrates’ Court for his involvement in sham contracting and the underpa…
A Perth business has copped a $15,840 fine for sacking a 16-year-old because the boy’s mother queried his pay. Stephen Ashley was person…
A new report from the Fair Work Ombudsman has uncovered an extraordinary amount of non-compliance in the vehicle repair and maintenance indu…
The Fair Work Ombudsman has fined an accountancy firm which discriminated against an employee over a mental disability. Accountancy firm …
The Fair Work Ombudsman has hit back at claims made in SmartCompany last month that it duplicates the work of other agencies and wastes taxp…
Complaints to the Fair Work Ombudsman have soared in the last year with the Ombudsman’s annual report published yesterday revealing last yea…