By The Editor
A small business owner has been praised at Fair Work Australia for her efforts to keep her workers employed while keeping her financially troubled business afloat, but at the same time has been ordered to pay eight weeks’ wages to an employee for unfair dismissal and failing to provide procedural fairness.
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VECCI welcomes the Victorian Government’s opposition to the planned scrapping of the Australian Building and Construction Commissioner (ABCC), which will lead to more industrial unrest on important Victorian construction sites.
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A defence of ignorance to workplace laws was not enough to prevent two men, along with their companies, being fined close to $30,000 in total for failing to pay and keep records relating to three Chinese employees on working visas.
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A federal Magistrate has criticised the office of the Fair Work Ombudsman for focusing on “objectives other than those expressed in the Fair Work Act” in pursuing a small business owner.
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By Alexandra Marriott
As regular readers of the VECCI Blog would know, VECCI is strongly opposed to the Federal Government’s plans to devolve the functions of the Australian Building and Construction Commissioner to a specialist division of the Fair Work Ombudsman.
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By Alexandra Marriott
Fair Work Australia Ombudsman Nicholas Wilson has warned employers not to turn a “corporately sanctioned blind eye” to improper workplace relations policies, including underpayment of wages and sham contracts.
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By Alexandra Marriott
A Victorian 7-Eleven franchise has been fined $150,000 by the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court for deliberately underpaying its staff, in a warning to all small employers to take their compliance obligations seriously.
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