June 2024
Providoor scraps hot food to concentrate on frozen meals
Online celebrity chef meal provider Providoor will target a growing market for pre-prepared meals, after struggling with delivery services for its hot meals.
October 2023
MasterChef’s Melissa Leong axed from judging line-up
Leong joined MasterChef Australia alongside co-hosts Andy Allen and Jock Zonfrillo in 2019 after the exit of Matt Preston, Gary Mehigan and George Calombaris.
Collapsed Providoor re-emerges, bringing celeb chef meals to your home
The high-end restaurant marketplace has been scooped up by Sam Benjamin, who runs Sydney-based Seventh Street Ventures.
April 2023
Workplace watchdog steps down after navigating ‘perfect storm’
The head of the Fair Work Ombudsman will not seek a second term after turning the agency from a “toothless” regulator into a tough cop on the beat.
January 2021
George Calombaris’ mansion sells for $8.8m
It's a paper profit of $4.05 million after the five-bedroom Toorak house was bought in the name of the celebrity chef's wife for $4.75 million in 2013.
March 2020
The worst 10 postcodes for unpaid super
Underpayment of wages and super has become a national scourge that is costing the economy dearly.
February 2020
Super Retail Group underpaid workers by $61 million
The company behind Supercheap Auto, Rebel Sport, BCF and Macpac is the latest to have to repay workers.
Liquidation looms for seven Calombaris restaurants
George Calomabaris' collapsed restaurant empire is headed for liquidation after the administrator said he had run out of time, despite expecting to secure the sale of two Jimmy Grants restaurants by Thursday night.
Three George Calombaris restaurants sold
Deals struck for three former Hellenic Republic venues, after a flurry of talks over the past several days.
Coles returns to time sheets after underpaying managers $20m
Coles has insisted all of its managers clock on and off when they work, after discovering they are owed $20 million in overtime as the supermarket giant became the latest of dozens of businesses caught out for underpaying workers.
Retailers say underpayment crackdown ignores award complexity
Retailers have accused the Coalition of assuming retailers are criminals while refusing to simplify awards as part of its proposed crackdown on underpayments.
New crackdown on underpayments, construction 'bullying'
Industrial Relations Minister Christian Porter will introduce the government's wage theft bill "in the coming weeks", with proposed deterrents including disqualifying company directors.
Unions not to blame for Calombaris' business woes
Labor's IR spokesman Tony Burke has hit back at employer groups for defending celebrity chef George Calombaris.
Calombaris is not a victim of the wage theft epidemic
Labor doesn’t believe criminalising wage theft is enough to stamp out this epidemic. The government must do more.
Who killed George Calombaris' empire?
The Fair Work Ombudsman, state and federal governments and the unions are being blamed for driving the collapse of George Calombaris' restaurant businesses.
George Calombaris' restaurant empire crumbles
Administrators have been called in and the celebrity chef's 12 restaurants and venues will stop trading immediately, putting 400 jobs at risk.
Overtime rules for pub staff after 16 hours 'unworkable'
Employers have argued new maximum hours for salaried bar, cafe and restaurant workers would entitle staff to extra pay just for working more than two shifts.
December 2019
AP Eagers underpaid car dealer staff $4.5m
'Wage theft' has been rife in retail and restaurants, and now Australia's biggest car dealership group has confessed to underpaying 6200 employees.
Burger chain underpays staff $1m
The Japanese fast food outlet repaid workers less than a month after it was caught - with a 7 per cent top-up.
October 2019
Ten replaces star MasterChef judges
Network Ten has named the replacements for its star Masterchef trio Matt Preston, Gary Mehigan and George Calombaris.