Overseas students, backpacker short-changed

International students and an overseas backpacker on a 417 working holiday visa were paid as little as $15 an hour to work at a restaurant in Perth, the Fair Work Ombudsman has found.

Spotlight on Local Government security tenders

Metropolitan and regional councils across Australia will be randomly audited as part of a Fair Work Ombudsman campaign to ensure local government procurement decisions are not undermining compliance with federal workplace laws.

Sydney Harbour restaurant on notice over workplace practices after ongoing staff underpayments

A high-profile restaurant on Sydney Harbour is on notice over its workplace practices after repeated complaints from its staff about being underpaid.

7-Eleven operator fined over underpayment

The former operator of a 7-Eleven retail store in Queensland has been fined after underpaying an overseas worker more than $21,000 and refusing to co-operate with the Fair Work Ombudsman.

$5000 penalty after ignoring $550 on-the-spot fine

The operators of an Adelaide business have been penalised $5000 after refusing to pay a $550 on-the-spot fine issued by the Fair Work Ombudsman.

Court imposes $142,000 penalty after restaurant operators refuse to back-pay nine workers

The former operators of a Bendigo restaurant who repeatedly short-changed their employees have been fined a total of $142,000 following legal action by the Fair Work Ombudsman.

Cleaners to see more in pay packets

Nine cleaners at several Myer sites in Melbourne will have larger pay packets in future after the Fair Work Ombudsman found they had been collectively short-changed $6300 in less than a month.

Building and construction campaign results

The Fair Work Ombudsman has flagged ongoing efforts to improve compliance rates within the building and construction industry following a recent national campaign.

Court fines businessmen who short-changed backpackers while picking up almost $500k

Two Melbourne businessmen have been fined - and criticised - in Court for paying themselves wages totalling almost $500,000, while some of the young, overseas backpackers they employed were paid nothing at all.

Korean backpackers short-changed $28,000 – but sushi restaurant boss labels them “trouble-makers”

The owner-operator of Bundaberg’s Nodaji Sushi restaurant and three other take-away sushi bars underpaid four young foreign workers almost $28,600 in just six months, a Fair Work Ombudsman investigation has found.