The Fair Work Ombudsman has been successful in its recent push for penalties against an accountancy firm and a human resources manager, who were found to be accessorily liable for their client/employer’s contraventions. Earlier in November, the Federal Court fined a HR Manager $21,760, after it found that she was accessorily liable for the breaches […]
The FWO has had its first compliance notice judicially challenged, in a recent case in the Federal Circuit Court. The FWO’s compliance notice required a religious body to back pay an employee nearly $78,000 after the FWO determined that the employee was a cook as opposed to an assistant priest, and as such covered by […]
A frozen yoghurt franchisor (and some of its related entities) have been found liable for one of its franchisee’s underpayment of 4 overseas workers. The Fair Work Ombudsman media release detailed that “The four exploited workers were paid as little as $8 an hour while working at [the employer’s] outlet at the World Square Shopping […]
The Fair Work Ombudsman has been successful in obtaining an Order that will serve as a warning to Company Directors, where the company is underpaying staff. This was a security services company (and also with a history of dealings with the FWO), that admitted a number of contraventions relating to the underpayment of 8 employees […]
On 9 June 2016, the FWO confirmed the securing of an Enforceable Undertaking with a Victorian based mining employer. The Undertaking sets out that since August 2015, the mining services company has been the subject of 11 requests for assistance to the FWO “relating to allegations of underpayment of wages, penalty rates and shift allowances”. […]
The Fair Work Ombudsman has made a number of statements over the last 6 months relating to the prosecution of 7-Eleven franchisees. October 2015 Statement In a statement made in October 2015, the Fair Work Ombudsman noted that in the past 6 years, the FWO had recovered more than $600,000 in unpaid entitlements on behalf […]