Media releases

More than 120 former employees at the Newcastle airport are to be back-paid more than $472,000 after it was found they were being short-changed.

A restaurant which catered for the Chinese President's travelling party to Hobart late last year has admitted underpaying a female worker because her English was not good enough.

Thirteen young backpackers on 417 working holiday visas have been short-changed almost $100,000 working for a high-profile natural health and skin care products company in NSW.

A Sydney businessman has been fined for underpaying workers at his former childcare centre more than $360,000, leaving some struggling to pay their rent.

A labour-hire operator in Melbourne is facing Court for allegedly breaching sham contracting laws and underpaying two employees.

The Federal Circuit Court has dismissed the Fair Work Ombudsman’s legal action against a Perth electrical business.

Chinese nationals working at an Adelaide take-away food shop were paid as little as $12 an hour, a Fair Work Ombudsman investigation has revealed.

A Victorian petrol station operator fined more than $120,000 last year for deliberately underpaying staff is again facing legal action – this time for allegedly ignoring an order to pay compensation to an unfairly dismissed employee.

A transport company has admitted deliberately underpaying one of its drivers because the only way it could remain competitive was to cut its wages bill.

A national security company knowingly allowed one of its contractors to underpay an employee more than $11,000, the Fair Work Ombudsman alleges.