Media releases

Two international students working at a fast-food outlet in Sydney have been short-changed thousands of dollars.

A Fair Work Ombudsman investigation has found a business near Coffs Harbour on the NSW Mid-North Coast failed to pay correct annual leave entitlements and calculate accurate leave balances for its shift workers for six years.

A Cairns tourism employee owed wages for working up to 109 hours a fortnight has been reimbursed thousands of dollars following action by the Fair Work Ombudsman.

A qualified personal trainer in Canberra who questioned his wage has been back-paid $9800 and helped to ensure his workmates are now paid correctly.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.