Tag: Fair Work Ombudsman

Let’s skip the lip-service on how rewarding it is to own your own business – of course it is. Instead, let’s call it for what it is: a hard and relentless battle.

Paul Mark Salter and George Dimaris, operators of a chain of Cuts Only The Original Barber hairdressing salons, were each fined $10,032 and their company fined a further $50,160.

More employees are using the Fair Work Ombudsman’s self-help online pay tool, according to a media release from the independent statutory office.

The Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) has today announced a new national campaign focusing on Australian construction businesses.

Supermarket giant Coles has agreed to fork-out more than $200,000 in back-pay for ten trolley collectors, conceding its employment practices were vulnerable to exploitation and underpayment.

The Fair Work Ombudsman will launch an investigation into wages and conditions for overseas workers employed on 417 working holiday visas.  The agency is expecting to receive an increase in calls for assistance from overseas workers in coming years. Reliance on overseas workers will climb and is expected to increase from 2.5 to 3.5 million […]

The Fair Work Ombudsman’s new small Business helpline has reportedly received more than 100,000 calls since it was established in December last year.

The operators of two Melbourne restaurants have been fined $334,818 for trading the wages of teenage employees for soft drink and pizza. Federal Circuit Judge John O’Sullivan slammed the “dark ages” practice and noted that Tecoma man Ruby Chand, who owned both franchises, had a history of underpaying employees. The underpayments took place between 2009-2012 […]

Dozens of liquor stores across New South Wales are in hot water for underpaying workers their minimum entitlements.

The Minister for Employment has moved to reassure small business operators that advice from the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) should be relied upon, without fear of prosecution.