Media releases
Media Releases | 05 Jan 2016
A Court has penalised a western Sydney hair and beauty salon $21,000 for ignoring a Fair Work Ombudsman request to back-pay an underpaid hairdresser $4668.
Media Releases | 04 Jan 2016
The manager of a business in Hobart has been back-paid almost $22,000 following recent intervention by the Fair Work Ombudsman.
Media Releases | 18 Dec 2015
The Fair Work Ombudsman has urged employers and employees to check the pay rates and entitlements that apply over Christmas and the New Year.
Media Releases | 15 Dec 2015
Australia’s growing health care and social assistance industry is to be the focus of a new national campaign by the Fair Work Ombudsman.
Media Releases | 11 Dec 2015
A labour-hire operator in Melbourne who has been the subject of a “litany of complaints” has been fined $42,840 after deliberately underpaying two workers.
Media Releases | 10 Dec 2015
A fast-food restaurant in the Melbourne CBD underpaid a Taiwanese backpacker almost $21,000 in just five months, a Fair Work Ombudsman investigation has found.
Media Releases | 09 Dec 2015
The operators of a Melbourne service station have been fined more than $92,000 for underpaying two Indian workers as little as $10 an hour.
Media Releases | 08 Dec 2015
A Korean visa-holder employed at a Japanese restaurant in Sydney was paid a flat rate of just $16.50 an hour, an investigation by the Fair Work Ombudsman has revealed.
Media Releases | 04 Dec 2015
The Fair Work Ombudsman is urging workers who believe they may have been underpaid by labour hire contractors for work at Baiada poultry processing plants this year to lodge their claims before a December 31 deadline.
Media Releases | 03 Dec 2015
The High Court has unanimously upheld an appeal from the Fair Work Ombudsman in relation to a sham contracting matter affecting workers at a Perth accommodation facility.
