A Melbourne fish and chip shop has been fined $17,000 for paying two 14 and 15-year-old girls just $5 an hour.The business has also been ordered to back-pay the teenagers almost $1500 after an investigation...

Peak retail industry body, the Australian Retailers Association (ARA), has indicated their support of the flexibility clause of the modern award, after the Australian Industrial Relations Commission (AIRC)...

The Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, and Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, Julia Gillard, yesterday released the new National Employment Standards (NES).The NES are a key element of the Rudd...

Australia’s largest privately-owned confectionery manufacturer and retailer – Darrell Lea – has been fined $120,000 in the Federal Magistrate’s Court in Melbourne for breaches of...

About 60 Warrnambool fast food and restaurant workers – some as young as 16 – are to be reimbursed more than $84,000 after investigations by the Workplace Ombudsman found many were being significantly...

As of March 28 the changes to the Workplace Relations Act 1996 have come into effect. Consequently, businesses need to be aware of changes to the law which prevent new Australian Workplace Agreements (AWAs)...