Employer sidelines worker’s $19,000 nest egg

A Melbourne truck driver who personally handed over $100 a fortnight for seven years to be salary-sacrificed into his superannuation fund was left facing retirement without his additional nest egg contributions.

Western Sydney sales manager underpaid $31,000

A wholesale business in Western Sydney is back-paying a sales manager more than $31,000 following intervention by the Fair Work Ombudsman.

Sydney restaurant workers back-paid almost $65,000

A Canley Heights restaurant has had to back-pay 11 employees almost $65,000 after the Fair Work Ombudsman found the workers were being short-changed.

Back-pay for workers in Melbourne’s south-east

Failure to pass on annual wage increases has left a Dandenong manufacturing company with an unpaid wages bill of $25,800.

Enforcement of RSRO 2016

The Fair Work Ombudsman has noted concerns this week about small businesses, owner-drivers and families being exposed to legal action as a result of contraventions of the new Road Safety Remuneration Order 2016.

Spot checks for 30 Alice and Barkly employers

The Fair Work Ombudsman will audit 30 businesses in Alice Springs and the Barkly Region of the Northern Territory as part of a new campaign.

Help is at hand for the Kimberley

No matter where you are, we can help. That’s the message Fair Work Ombudsman Executive Director Lynda McAlary-Smith has brought to the Kimberley today.

Help is at hand for the Top End

No matter where you are, we can help. That’s the message Fair Work Ombudsman Executive Director Lynda McAlary-Smith has brought to Darwin and the Northern Territory today.

Boardrooms “on notice” to pay attention to their labour supply chains

By Natalie James, Fair Work Ombudsman. First published by Fairfax on Saturday April 9.

$5100 penalty over failure to pay compensation

The former operator of a Melbourne hair and beauty business has been penalised $5100 for ignoring a Fair Work Commission order to compensate an employee who had been unfairly dismissed.