Woolworths-owned liquor store chains BWS and Dan Murphy’s are facing a class action investigation for allegedly underpaying staff.
The Commonwealth has told a court it will not sit down for mediation talks with One Nation chief-of-staff James Ashby as he seeks to recoup almost $4 million in legal costs spent in a dropped sexual harassment case against former House speaker Peter Slipper.
The employing entity for convenience store chain On The Run has been slapped with a penalty of almost $65,000 for underpaying and failing to provide a worker with meal and toilet breaks, with a judge chastising the company’s “deliberate exploitation of a low paid hard working employee”.
International direct marketing company Aida Sales and Marketing has settled a multimillion-dollar group action accusing it of engaging in wage theft and sham contracting.
Billionaire real estate developer Harry Triguboff and his company Meriton have settled a dispute with the former group general counsel of the property giant, who claimed he was sacked after refusing to lie, saying the unfair dismissal case arose from a “misunderstanding”.
The National Tertiary Education Union has launched a class action investigation against Australia’s universities for alleged wage theft, the latest sector to be engulfed by the country’s underpayments scandal.
A former Qantas customer service manager has appealed a ruling blocking her from pursuing a disability discrimination case against Maurice Blackburn alleging the law firm put pressure on her to settle her workers compensation case against the airline.
Mondelez has won its High Court challenge to a ruling on the method to be used for calculating workers’ personal days.
Aged care operator Uniting has agreed to make $3.36 million in back payments to about 9,500 employees who were underpaid their full entitlements over a period of six years.
A judge has slugged the Australia Workers’ Union with a $148,100 fine for artificially boosting member numbers in what he said was a “serious departure” from the record-keeping standards required by registered organisations under the Fair Work Act.