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The price of non-compliance
The Risk of Cutting Corners in Compliance In the complex landscape of payroll management, opting to ignore compliance might seem like a shortcut to...
The “Closing the Loopholes Bill” Part 2
The "Closing the Loopholes Bill" Part 2 introduces critical reforms in Australian workplace legislation, with significant implications for directors...
Understanding Wage Underpayments and Director Liability in Australia
Ensuring accurate and compliant wage practices is not just important for maintaining employee welfare and adhering to legal requirements; it's also...
Closing Loopholes Bill Passed! – Senate Passes Key Wage Reforms
The Australian Government has taken a step forward in enhancing workers' rights and addressing various labour-related issues. The Fair Work...
Compliance Wake-Up Call: Navigating Australia’s Changing Fair Work Landscape
Starbucks entry into an Enforceable Undertaking, at a time when the Australian government is vigorously pushing ahead with changes to the Fair Work...
Proposed laws to increase penalties and criminalise wage theft!
Closing Loopholes Bill 2023 Not since its commencement in 2009 has there been such expansive changes to the Fair Work Act as the Fair Work...
Stadium cleaners hit with $330k in fines for worker underpayments
The Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) recently pursued a significant case involving underpaid workers, highlighting the importance of upholding workers'...
Uniqlo says sorry after uncovering $25 million in underpayments
Fashion retailer Uniqlo has issued an apology to its current and former employees in Australia, as the company recently discovered underpayments...
Bakers Delight faces court over franchisor liability for alleged franchisee underpayments
In a recent development, Baker's Delight, a well-known bakery franchise, is facing legal action initiated by the workplace watchdog for its alleged...
Uniqlo Australia Discovers Payroll Oversight
Uniqlo Australia has recently revealed that an internal audit has uncovered underpayments of wages and superannuation payments to its staff dating...
The price of non-compliance
The Risk of Cutting Corners in Compliance In the complex landscape of payroll management, opting to ignore compliance might seem like a shortcut to reduce operational costs. Yet, this decision can lead to hefty penalties, tarnish your organisation's reputation, and...
The “Closing the Loopholes Bill” Part 2
The "Closing the Loopholes Bill" Part 2 introduces critical reforms in Australian workplace legislation, with significant implications for directors and business management. The legislation introduces formidable penalties for non-compliance, with corporations facing...
Understanding Wage Underpayments and Director Liability in Australia
Ensuring accurate and compliant wage practices is not just important for maintaining employee welfare and adhering to legal requirements; it's also critical for protecting directors from potential liabilities. Such practices play a key role in promoting employee...
What is causing employee wage underpayments
Australia has 120 Modern Awards and many enterprise bargaining agreements in place. Within these awards and agreements, there are many provisions relating to different penalty rates and entitlements that employers must provide to their employees. When these provisions...
The Overtime Issue with Payroll Compliance
Large scale underpayments are continuing to occur throughout all different types of businesses across Australia, many of which are caused by complications with overtime payments. Emirates Retail Leisure is one of the more recent, high profile cases of staff...
Payroll Compliance in Australia
Payroll compliance has become an important topic for employers in recent times, especially in Australia. If you’ve kept up with recent media publications, you would have seen many large businesses continuing to underpay employees. Are these businesses all...
FWO Report on Proactive Compliance Actions
The FWO has been very proactive in enforcing employment compliance, with new stats showing even larger increases in compliance activities compared to previous years. Here are WageSafe’s 5 takeaways from the FWO’s 2020-21 report, which was released back in September...
How to Stop Underpaying Employees – Real Time Payroll Checking
Underpaying employees is one of the biggest issues facing employers today, mainly due to the increasingly severe legal consequences for getting it wrong. It isn’t just the legal consequences, however, underpayments can impact businesses in several different ways, none...
Why a ‘set-and-forget’ mindset is costing businesses
The FWO has once again warned employers of having a ‘set-and-forget’ mindset when it comes to paying their employees. This comes after the FWO claimed that Coles were $100M short in their allowance for back-paying employees who were underpaid. These underpayments,...
The Consequences of Underpaying Employees
Recently, we have seen many well-respected Australian companies identified as having underpaid their employees, with Coles again under the spotlight in relation to salaried managers. Earlier this year, Zara was also found to be underpaying their employees and as a...