Businesses collecting biometric data from their employees are being advised to review their processes after the Fair Work Commission (FWC) ruled in favour of a worker fired for refusing to use a fingerprint scanner. Queensland-based sawmill Superior Wood, owned by the Finlayson Group, fired a casual factory hand in February last year after he refused […]
READ MORECan data help win the fight for fair pay?
When workers are kept in the dark about how their salary stacks up against industry benchmarks, they tend to believe – rather incorrectly – that they are being underpaid. Among employees who assume they are paid below industry standard, 77% are actually paid on the mark and another 12% are paid even higher than the […]
READ MOREThe FWC on employee disputes and workplace bullying
When employees clash it can sometimes result in claims that one or both are bullying the other. When emotions are running high and differences are unable to be resolved, employees often turn to the anti-bullying jurisdiction of the Fair Work Commission (FWC). Under the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) (FW Act), the FWC can hear […]
READ MOREGeorgie Gardner interviews Tracy Angwin on TODAY
Underpayment as business model: what is wage theft?
Labor and the Coalition have said they will address wage theft after the election but some employer groups are pushing back. What is wage theft and where does it happen? They’re the revelations seemingly without end: from pizzas to posh nosh, from convenience stores and corner cafes to supermarkets, on farms and in franchises across […]
READ MOREHuge wage boost and penalty rate win for 100,000 McDonald’s workers
Burger giant McDonald’s will soon start paying out tens of millions of dollars in higher wages to its employees after it finally agreed to pay weekend penalty rates to its young workforce. Maccas, one of Australia’s biggest employers, also faces a claim for back pay that, if successful, could be worth more than $200 million […]
READ MOREPut it in writing: Court rejects employee’s proposed adjustments to workplace
Australia’s anti-discrimination legislation imposes positive obligations on employers to make reasonable adjustments in the workplace to accommodate an employee’s disability, unless doing so would cause unjustifiable hardship to the business. A failure to make such reasonable adjustments may constitute disability discrimination. In a recent decision, the Federal Circuit Court of Australia (the Court) considered the […]
READ MORECulture club: workplace culture gone wrong and how to make it right
Workplace coaches and HR gurus talk a lot about the art of cultivating a positive and productive workplace culture. But what does “workplace culture” really mean and what happens when workplace culture becomes damaged or toxic? The tail end of 2018 saw a series of reports in the media about failing workplace cultures in a […]
READ MORE$350 million more unpaid superannuation as industry urges crackdown on dodgy employers
Industry Super Australia (ISA) has called for new laws to force employers to pay superannuation at the same time as salaries, saying the retirement savings gap has become an “epidemic”. Analysis of 2016-17 tax office data conducted by former Treasury official Phil Gallagher for ISA has found an additional 90,000 workers have been shortchanged on […]
READ MOREChatime allegedly owes foreign workers over $10m in back pay since 2009
Chatime, the Taiwanese bubble tea business with stores across Australia, is facing allegations it had underpaid workers more than $10m beginning as far back as 2009. Corporate-owned stores, as well as franchisees, were reportedly engaged in the scheme. The branches in question, operated by Chatime’s Australian subsidiary Infinite Plus, had allegedly employed foreign students from […]
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