Media releases

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The Fair Work Ombudsman today released a Report on the findings of its Inquiry into the 7-Eleven franchise network.

Following yesterday afternoon’s Full Federal Court decision, the Road Safety Remuneration Order 2016 has commenced operation.