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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”.
The Fair Work Commission has found a Darebin City Council street sweeper was unfairly terminated after expressing that an Acknowledgement of Country was unnecessary to open a work meeting.
Griffith University has signed an enforceable undertaking to backpay $8.34 million in wages, interest and superannuation to 5,457 staff who were underpaid over a nine-year period.
Ex-CFMEU Victorian branch boss John Setka has still not filed his defence in a case alleging he tried to get the former head of the construction industry watchdog sacked, and the Fair Work Ombudsman says it may seek summary judgment.