Food services and accommodation industry high on list for enforcement action, behavioural change

The food services and accommodation industry accounted for 40 percent of Enforceable Undertakings the Fair Work Ombudsman entered with employers last financial year.

Court sends strong message to café operators who underpaid overseas workers

A mother-and-son business team which deliberately exploited vulnerable overseas workers has been penalised almost $200,000 and ordered to back-pay former staff tens of thousands of dollars.

Korean backpackers short-changed

Two Korean backpackers working as cleaners in Sydney were underpaid thousands of dollars in just three months.

Fish and chip shop workers underpaid $40k

The operators of two fish and chip shops in the Newcastle region of NSW have agreed to back-pay workers almost $40,000 following an investigation by the Fair Work Ombudsman.

Gold Coast business back-pays workers $56,000

A Gold Coast family business that withheld the entitlements of two employees is back-paying them $56,000 following intervention by the Fair Work Ombudsman.

National clothing chain back-pays workers $162k

Dozens of staff at a high-end national clothing company have been back-paid more than $162,100 following an investigation by the Fair Work Ombudsman.

Restaurant failed to check wage rates and underpaid Korean, Japanese visa-holders $40,000

A Korean migrant who opened a restaurant in Melbourne last year without checking the wages applicable to his business has now been required to back-pay more than $40,000 to four of his former staff.

Pilbara mine workers back-paid $240,600

A labour-hire company has back-paid 13 workers a total of $240,600 after they did not receive their termination entitlements at a mine in Western Australia’s Pilbara region.

$90,000 penalties for contractors who paid their trolley collectors as little as $8 an hour

Trolley collection contractors who were once part of supply chains for Woolworths, Coles and Foodland have been penalised more than $90,000 after overseas workers at Adelaide shopping centres were paid as little as $8 an hour.

Worker wage review follows underpayments

A telecommunications company at Wollongong in NSW faces a series of audits after a Fair Work Ombudsman investigation found it had underpaid a call centre worker more than $3000.