Her Fashion Box and its sole director Kath Purkis have been
fined a total of $329,133 for underpaying workers.

The Fair Work Ombudsman has secured more than $77,000 in
penalties against the operator of a Sydney hair salon for
underpaying a teenage apprentice in her first job more than
$14,000.

The Fair Work Ombudsman has secured $65,438 in penalties
in Court against the former franchisee of two Subway outlets
in  Sydney  for underpaying
a Chinese worker more than $16,000.

The Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) has secured $257,000 in penalties
against a company and its director that underpaid 54 workers at a
24-hour café in Melbourne’s Crown Casino precinct.

An HR coordinator has been ordered to pay his former employer
$35,000 in costs, after the Federal Circuit Court found his refusal
to accept three settlement offers was unreasonable.

A PCBU’s work health and safety duties are not delegable. As
this recent case shows. The employer was fined $40,000, and had to
pay $18,000 in prosecutor’s costs.

The Fair Work Ombudsman has secured substantial penalties
against a Gold Coast tour bus business that engaged in
sham contracting and underpaid two drivers more than $43,000.

The ABC has admitted it underpaid up to 2500 casual staff over
the past six years and has commenced an urgent review.

Two labour-hire companies that provided workers
exclusively to a major home care company in Adelaide have been
penalised a total of more than $200,000 over a sham contracting
scheme that resulted in underpayments and significant hardship for
workers.