Tag: Fair Work Australia

Warning that using personal/carer’s leave for anything other than the intended reason may well get you fired.

Part-owner of hospitality businesses faces multiple charges for allegedly failing to pay minimum wages and other award entitlements to workers.

Fair Work Ombudsman is taking Federal Court action against an Italian eatery for alleged non-compliance during an underpayment investigation.

Business underpaid 15-year-old casual worker and then failed to comply with a Fair Work compliance notice. Judge imposes $26,000 penalty.

A Fair Work Ombudsman inquiry found that several franchisees had been deliberately falsifying records to disguise the underpayment of wages.

Siblings must pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in penalties and back pay to workers after scathing judgement by Federal Circuit Court.

Warning comes as restaurant in Tasmania is fined by Federal Court for ignoring a Compliance Notice to pay back-pay to staff.

Fair Work recovers $32 000 in unpaid wages and issues a warning to employers on migrant workers’ rights at work.

2Day FM has lost a legal bid to prevent the media authority from finding it broke the law by broadcasting a royal prank call.

The chairman of the media company behind 2Day FM’s royal prank call has brushed off the incident to shareholders saying “Sh*t happens”.

Sydney radio station 2Day FM is seeking to prevent the media watchdog from finding it committed a criminal offence last year.

A British inquest into the death of a nurse who took her own life after receiving a prank call from two Australian radio DJs has been delayed again.

Scotland Yard have handed a file of evidence on a royal prank call linked to the death of nurse Jacintha Saldanha in December last year to the Australian Federal Police and NSW police.

Mel Greig, one of the Australian radio DJs involved in the royal prank phone call to a London nurse, is taking legal action against her employer Austereo for failing to maintain a safe workplace.