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Retail, fast food award wages rise today
Retail workers across the country will today receive a long-awaited pay rise, as the retail and fast food award wage jum...

Top Juice wages recovered after workplace breaches
The Fair Work Ombudsman has recovered $32,435 in unpaid wages for 18 workers at Top Juice. The wages recovery follows an...

Australian firms to get wage subsidies
Businesses will be given wage subsidies to help keep employees on during the coronavirus pandemic. Treasurer Josh Fryden...

Celebrity restaurant wage theft scandals signal industry norm
The latest celebrity-chef-linked wage theft scandal, with the high-end restaurant Dinner by Heston Blumenthal in Melbour...

Wage watch! 6 must-know employee award changes in 2020
The passing of the new year welcomed Australia into a fresh decade, and while many of us are still suffering the throes ...

“Complex system” not to blame for wage theft
Is Australia’s award system so complex major corporations capable of handling millions of customers and billions of doll...

Franchise brands urged to review minimum wage increase
The end of financial year (EOFY) celebrations kicked off early for workers with the national minimum wage increase offic...

2.2 million Aussie better off after minimum wage increase
More than 2.2 million Australians are set to better off after the Fair Work Commission (FWC) delivered a long-awaited pa...

Penalty rates back on the block after Easter
Labor Party leader Bill Shorten put holiday penalty rates back in the conversation over the Easter long weekend, a perio...

Employers embrace payroll changes – are you on board?
Are you using Single Touch Payroll yet? The new streamlined payroll reporting system is off to a successful start, repor...