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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.
A BP worker whose employment was reinstated after he was unfairly dismissed for sharing a video clip that included subtitles placed over a scene from the movie 'Downfall' about Adolf Hitler, has been awarded $201,000 in lost wages and superannuation.
Communications and technical services company BSA Limited has slammed as "opportunistic" an employment class action by allegedly underpaid technicians, saying the media was informed of the proceedings before it was.