Posts tagged "underpaid workers"

The unions and media piled-on celebrity chef George Calombaris after his restaurant empire underpaid workers. But what did it all achieve?

The collapse of George Calombaris' restaurant empire has thrown the future of several other business operators into the air as the fallout from the wage theft scandal spreads across Melbourne.

From Woolworths to Rockpool, a large number of underpayment cases pinning the blame on payroll issues have been making media headlines.

Sunglass Hut will back pay $2.3 million to its employees after admitting to underpaying individual workers by up to $42,912 in overtime wages.

In recent years there have been large-scale cases of underpayment involving household names such as Caltex, 7-Eleven and Pizza Hut and Domino's Pizza.

With all the George Calombaris news, you have to ask: are we all guilty of underpaying? Not just in business, but as customers?

The Fair Work Ombudsman will test new laws requiring businesses who don't keep proper records to prove they didn't underpay workers.

The Fair Work Ombudsman found between 2010 and 2017 nearly 250 workers at UAE Exchange Australia were underpaid amounts between 20 cents and almost $35,000.