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Westpac has paid back $50 million plus interest and super to 47,000 current and former staff who were underpaid over an 11-year period.
The Fair Work Ombudsman is considering amending its underpayments case against Rebel Sport owner Super Retail Group, following a significant ruling in underpayments proceedings against Woolworths and Coles.
Bakers Delight has lost its appeal of a decision that found it was subject to a statutory reverse onus to disprove record-keeping claims in underpayments proceedings against a franchisee.
The University of Wollongong has agreed to pay over $6.6 million to thousands of underpaid staff members as part of an enforceable undertaking with the Fair Work Ombudsman.
The FWO has taken the CFMEU and two officials to court for allegedly threatening to ban an Indigenous work hire company from working on Melbourne construction projects and making unlawful representations about CPB Contractors' $761 million contract for the Monash Freeway upgrade.
Coles and Woolworths estimate they will need to remediate underpaid workers up to $780 million, following a complex judgment in two class actions and regulatory proceedings handed down last week.
A judge has criticised the “unacceptably complex” trial of two regulatory cases and two underpayments class actions against Coles and Woolworths, delivering a ruling whose significance for the workers is not yet clear.
The National Australian Bank says it will take a $130 million hit after issues with its payroll system led to staff being underpaid.
The Fair Work Ombudsman has launched action against a labour hire company for allegedly failing to pay compensation to a pregnant worker sacked from the Royal Hotel Granville.
Former CFMEU figure John Setka has denied the workplace watchdog’s claims that he tried to coerce the AFL into sacking its head umpire over his previous role at the Australian Building and Construction Commission, saying the union had a legitimate political interest in polemicising against an “anti-unionist” officiating “a working man’s sport”.