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- Taste of Tasmania participants forewarned about wages
- 21st November, 2008
Participants in the upcoming Taste of Tasmania have been briefed by workplace inspectors to ensure all workers are properly paid.
This follows the discovery that half the stall-holders... - Watchdog eyes Xmas pay packets
- 19th November, 2008
The national pay protector today released a new list of high-risk businesses it will target in the lead-up to Christmas to ensure workers are properly paid.
The workplace watchdog's latest... - Worker loses compensation rights after accepting deed payment
- 17th November, 2008
A worker who accepted payment as part of a deed of release agreement with his employer had waived his compensation rights, a full bench of the NSW Court of Appeal has ruled, finding the payment... - Pay protector targets wine industry ahead of harvest
- 14th November, 2008
Western Australia's premier wine-producing regions are the latest target of the Federal Workplace Ombudsman.
It has put 200 wineries and vineyard contractors on notice that they will be... - Heavy fines for host employer and site supervisor over fall death
- 12th November, 2008
A Victorian construction company that failed to act on an on-hired worker's safety concerns has been fined $250,000 in the County Court after the worker fell from an unprotected void, and died.
The... - Big fine for company that sacked union delegate after AWA strike
- 10th November, 2008
A stationery company that unlawfully sacked its NUW delegate after a bitter strike at the height of pre-election debate over Work Choices has been ordered by the Federal Court to pay $12,000 in... - Regulator stands up in court for workers’ rights
- 5th November, 2008
The national pay protector will take a legal stand on behalf of a group of La Trobe Valley workers dismissed after failing to sign Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs).
Federal Workplace... - $30,000 fine for Donut King franchisee who deliberately underpaid disempowered employees
- 3rd November, 2008
The Federal Magistrates Court has ordered the operator of a Donut King outlet to pay $30,000 in penalties for deliberately underpaying ten casual employees, most of them under-21, by $9,000.
The... - Court fines Qantas $5,000, says agreement breach understandable
- 31st October, 2008
The Federal Magistrates Court has fined Qantas $5,000 out of a possible $33,000 and ordered it pay one of its pilots $6,094 plus interest for three breaches of its long-haul flight crew certified... - Security workers get $156k backpay
- 29th October, 2008
Nightclub bouncers and guards at banks and shopping centres are among 280 Queensland security workers to be back-paid more than $156,000.
The underpayments were identified when the federal... - Regulator stands up in court for workers rights
- 27th October, 2008
The national pay protector will take a legal stand on behalf of a group of La Trobe Valley workers dismissed after failing to sign Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs).
Federal Workplace... - Junior car washers were never paid, so watchdog seeks court action
- 24th October, 2008
A teenager who was employed to wash, clean and detail cars for more than a month has still not been paid for more than two years later, according to court documents.
It's alleged the then...
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