Media releases

A Sydney transport company is facing the Federal Circuit Court for allegedly short-changing four bus drivers more than $47,000.

Young overseas workers on 417 visas were underpaid thousands of dollars for cleaning rooms at a popular Perth hotel, the Fair Work Ombudsman alleges.

Dozens of Chinese and Taiwanese nationals working at a mushroom farm in regional NSW have been short-changed tens of thousands of dollars, investigations by the Fair Work Ombudsman have revealed.

A cleaning services business in Sydney will face the Federal Circuit Court for allegedly underpaying two international students almost $3000.

A Federal Circuit Court judge has told a Melbourne businesswoman she could have avoided a $9000 penalty if she had co-operated with a Fair Work Ombudsman investigation into underpayment of wages.

A Sydney businessman and his company have been penalised almost $25,000 for failing to co-operate with a Fair Work Ombudsman investigation.

The operator of a Nando’s restaurant in Canberra has been found short-changing its young workers thousands of dollars.

The operators of a retail outlet in Melbourne are facing Court for allegedly short-changing three employees, including two overseas workers, a total of more than $90,000.

A Victorian accounting firm will face court over its alleged involvement in the underpayment of two Taiwanese backpackers working for one of its clients.

A national glass repair business has been penalised $35,500 after ignoring a Fair Work Commission Order to compensate an employee who had been unfairly dismissed.