Now is the time to make sure you are paying your employees correctly

Georgia Spencer 8 January 2020 No Comments

2019 was full of high-profile cases where big and small businesses had failed to pay their employees correctly. Although the phrase wage theft was bandied around with abandon, in our…

If ASX listed companies like Woolworths have underpaid their staff – are you sure you haven’t too?

Georgia Spencer 7 November 2019 No Comments

Underpayment of wages revelations are coming thick and fast from the most unlikely sources – the big employers. Woolworths, Wesfarmers, Qantas, Commonwealth Bank, Super Retail Group and Michael Hill Jewellers…

Celebrity status no excuse for underpayment of wages

Georgia Spencer 22 July 2019 No Comments

Following an investigation by the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO), Made Establishment, celebrity chef George Calombaris’ hospitality empire, has been found to have underpaid more than 500 employees. The celebrity chef…

National Wage to increase 3% from 1 July 2019

Georgia Spencer 31 May 2019 No Comments

On 30 May 2019 the Fair Work Commission handed down the latest National Wage Case decision. This decision provides for a 3% increase to be applied from the first full…

Inadvertent underpayment or wage theft?

Georgia Spencer 30 October 2018 No Comments

What is wage theft I hear you ask. It’s a relatively new term being used to describe situations where an employer is underpaying their employees. If you are inadvertently underpaying…

Category: Wage Rates

Now is the time to make sure you are paying your employees correctly

If ASX listed companies like Woolworths have underpaid their staff – are you sure you haven’t too?

Celebrity status no excuse for underpayment of wages

National Wage to increase 3% from 1 July 2019

Inadvertent underpayment or wage theft?