Media releases
Media Releases | 01 Oct 2014
More than three-quarters of Townsville businesses are complying with their record-keeping and pay-slip obligations under federal workplace laws, random checks by the Fair Work Ombudsman have revealed.
Media Releases | 30 Sep 2014
A Melbourne company and its director have been fined almost $50,000 for ignoring a Fair Work Commission Order to pay $2200 compensation to a young employee who had been unfairly dismissed.
Media Releases | 24 Sep 2014
The owner-operator of a Melbourne child-care business has been fined $19,980 after showing no remorse over the underpayment of five employees.
Media Releases | 22 Sep 2014
The Fair Work Ombudsman’s Online Learning Centre - which has attracted more than 17,000 users since it was launched last year - has been recognised for its use of educational videos.
Media Releases | 19 Sep 2014
A Melbourne radio station which paid two of its staff just $20 for each program they produced and presented must now back-pay the pair more than $60,000 in outstanding wages and entitlements.
Media Releases | 18 Sep 2014
A 24-year-old South Korean backpacker working in a Brisbane restaurant was underpaid more than $2200 in just seven weeks, an investigation by the Fair Work Ombudsman has found.
Media Releases | 17 Sep 2014
Six workers at a meat processing plant at Casino, in regional NSW, have been reimbursed almost $43,000 after they were wrongly stood down for two months on annual leave and leave without pay.
Media Releases | 17 Sep 2014
Fair Work Ombudsman inspectors are this week doorknocking therapeutic massage centres and nail salons in Darwin to ensure employees are receiving their correct wages and entitlements.
Media Releases | 16 Sep 2014
Domino’s Pizza Enterprises Ltd has signed up to a second Proactive Compliance Deed (PCD) with the Fair Work Ombudsman.
Media Releases | 15 Sep 2014
Seventeen employees of a Melbourne company have been back-paid almost $20,000 following an investigation by the Fair Work Ombudsman.
