1 day ago
Superannuation changes are here
January 2020 saw the implementation of the Salary Sacrifice Integrity measures, two connected measures which have a significant impact on the operation of salary sacrifice and the meeting of the …
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4 weeks ago
Fels backs calls to use artificial intelligence as wage-theft detector
Former ACCC chairman Allan Fels has backed calls to use artificial intelligence and data matching to detect wage theft, saying technology should be a key weapon in tackling the “systemic” …
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3 months ago
Regulator steering is risky
Earlier this week, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) released a special report that examined the different pricing behaviours of businesses operating in the Australian retail fuels market during …
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4 months ago
Change the rules? It’s about time
So, Wesfarmers has underpaid its employees by some $15 million. It is now very obvious the workplace relations system is too complicated.
At a recent CEDA event Attorney-General Christian Porter, …
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4 months ago
Westside Petroleum penalised for underpayments
The Fair Work Ombudsman has secured $57,000 in penalties in Court against major service station chain Westside Petroleum and three of its management staff for underpaying 22 employees a total …
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4 months ago
FWO launches legal action against United Petroleum
In a major warning to all businesses operating in the fuel retail industry, the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) launched legal action against United Petroleum this week claiming that the company …
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4 months ago
Wage theft a symptom of a complex system
The notion of ‘wage theft’ has attracted plenty of attention over the last couple of years, with a long list of well-known businesses having been engulfed in allegations of wage …
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4 months ago
Why the government’s wage theft crackdown might be a PR exercise
The government’s threat of jail terms and multimillion-dollar fines for bosses engaging in wage theft may be a PR exercise designed to camouflage the blow of big hits to come …
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7 months ago
New Wage Rates apply from July 1 2019
The new wage rates finalised by the Fair Work Commission recently come into effect on the first full pay period after July 1, 2019. ACAPMA has distributed the ACAPMA Employment Quick Reference …
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8 months ago
Failure to correct $21,748 worth of underpayments results in more than $3 million fines
In what will be the first time the Fair Work Ombudsman relies on the “serious contraventions provisions” of the Protecting Vulnerable Workers legislation a Melbourne toy retailer who underpaid 8 …
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