NewsBite

Wage scandal

Advertisement
Chatime has been fined for underpaying staff.

‘Ignorance and inattention’: Bubble tea giant Chatime fined for wage scandal

The bubble tea chain and its managing director Chen “Charlley” Zhao have been penalised for ripping off 152 workers in 2016.

  • Jessica Yun

Latest

Universities in WA are paying their top executives more than Premier Roger Cook.

The WA university executives paid more than our state premier

A new report has revealed university executives’ pay, as union figures raise concerns over a lack of scrutiny of those in the top jobs.

  • Holly Thompson
The CPSU will allege up to 1500 staff have been shortchanged a few thousand dollars each over the past six years.

Justice department owes staff millions in back pay, union alleges

Lawyers for the Community and Public Sector Union allege “multiple contraventions” of two enterprise bargaining agreements.

  • Broede Carmody and Kieran Rooney
The Good Weekend cover that featured George Calombaris.

We gave a celeb a ‘halo’ on this magazine cover. Then came the social media pile-on

As journalists, we dish it out and we take it. We can’t – and shouldn’t – complain. But I’d be lying if I said this story didn’t shake me.

  • Katrina Strickland
Illustration by John Shakespeare

Trumpian populism hasn’t taken off in Australia. I think I know why

Living standards in Australia have hardly risen for the past decade, but as disappointing as that is, it’s significantly worse elsewhere.

  • Ross Gittins
Senator Jacqui Lambie and Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations Tony Burke.

Lambie, Pocock hand Labor big win on same job, same pay laws

Peak business groups and the Coalition say the “sneaky” deal on industrial relations will increase business costs and hinder the economy.

  • Paul Sakkal
Advertisement
Anna Booth is six weeks into her role as the new Fair Work Ombudsman.

‘Red tape a furphy’: Workplace cop puts big business on wage notice

New Fair Work Ombudsman Anna Booth believes chief executives and board directors are directly responsible for any failures to pay the correct wages.

  • Jessica Yun
“Small price to pay”: Employment Minister Tony Burke at the National Press Club on Thursday.

Employers to face 10 years’ jail, hefty fines under proposed wage theft laws

A new federal wage theft offence is a key component of the federal government’s latest tranche of workplace reforms to be introduced to parliament on Monday.

  • Lisa Visentin
Illustration: Dionne Gain

Are you being paid properly? Here’s how to check

With big businesses like Woolworths and BHP in the headlines for underpaying staff millions of dollars, it’s time to fully understand your entitlements at work.

  • Victoria Devine
Woolworths faces more than 1000 criminal charges over unpaid long serivce leave.

Woolworths faces more than 1000 criminal charges over unpaid leave

One of Australia’s largest employers has been hit with more than 1000 criminal charges for allegedly underpaying more than $1 million in long service leave to 1235 former workers.

  • Ben Schneiders

Original URL: https://www.watoday.com.au/topic/wage-scandal-63u