8 March 2012 | The Fair Work Ombudsman is continuing its crackdown on hospitality businesses who are not paying their staff correctly reporting it has recovered almost $50,000 in back pay for hospitality workers in Alice Springs.
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1 March 2012 | The Fair Work Ombudsman is prosecuting the operator of a Brisbane restaurant for allegedly underpaying two young, foreign workers.
6 February 2012 | Tasmanian hospitality industry businesses are to be the next target of the Fair Work Ombudsman following concerns that employers were not paying staff correctly.
23 January 2012 | Queensland's accommodation operators are the latest section of the hospitality industry to come under the spotlight of the Fair Work Ombudsman.
11 January 2012 | A Hungry Jack’s restaurant in Bendigo has been fined $46,200 after it was found to have been underpaying its staff for more than four years.
28 November 2011 | A chef in the Blue Mountains in NSW has been back-paid a total of $19,000 following action by the Fair Work Ombudsman.
25 November 2011 | Canberra restaurants are the latest sector to come under the scrutiny of the Fair Work Ombudsman.
19 July 2011 | Two-thirds of hotels and restaurants randomly audited on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula have been found to have breached federal workplace laws.
14 July 2011 | Two foreign workers at a Perth sushi business have been back-paid a total of $47,100 following intervention by the Fair Work Ombudsman.
12 May 2011 | The Fair Work Ombudsman has launched a prosecution against the operator of the Sportsman Hotel in South Australia’s Millicent over the alleged underpayment of five employees.
29 April 2011 | The operators of a Tasmanian hotel have been fined a total of $47,920 for deliberately underpaying two employers more than $8,000.
7 April 2011 | Almost 70 percent of South Australian fast food outlets are compliant with federal workplace laws, a Fair Work Ombudsman campaign, which involved random audits, has revealed.
3 December 2010 | Hospitality workers in Alice Springs and Katherine are the latest focus of the Fair Work Ombudsman in the Northern Territory.
1 November 2010 | A national hotel chain with more than 30 hotels and resorts across Australia has reimbursed 165 of its workers a total of $53,000 after an investigation by the Fair Work Ombudsman found they were underpaid.
28 October 2010 | The Fair Work Ombudsman has released the results of its random audits of motels along the Murray River in Victoria, conducted as part of an educational and compliance campaign.
19 October 2010 | Fair Work inspectors will spend this week conducting face-to-face visits to fast food outlets in Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Rockhampton, Cairns, Toowoomba and Townsville in order to help employers understand national workplace laws.
27 September 2010 | Two hotel managers in Hervey Bay, Queensland, have been back-paid $21,300 after lodging complaints with the Fair Work Ombudsman.
23 September 2010 | The operators of two Chili's restaurants have been fined a total of $66,600 for underpaying teenage staff, following an extensive investigation by the Fair Work Ombudsman into the Mexican restaurant chain.
01:58 PM | The operator of two cafes in Cairns which underpaid more than 180 staff has been fined $33,600 following a prosecution by the Fair Work Ombudsman.
18 May 2010 | The Fair Work Ombudsman has launched a prosecution against the operator of two Sushi Train cafes in Cairns for allegedly underpaying 181 staff members almost $120,000.
12 April 2010 | Baker Group Management, which trades as Angelucci's Restaurant and Bar on Chapel Street in Melbourne's South Yarra has been fined $7,000, and its operator a further $3,000, for failing to keep proper employment records for more than 70 employees.
8 April 2010 | Businesses in Sydney’s south and western suburbs will be the latest target of visits from inspectors from the office of the Fair Work Ombudsman as part of the latest leg of its educational program.
11 March 2010 | Two cooks at two separate restaurants in Campbelltown in NSW have been reimbursed almost $10,000 after investigations by the Fair Work Ombudsman found they were being underpaid.
4 February 2010 | The Fair Work Ombudsman has launched a prosecution against the operators of a Tasmanian hotel for allegedly underpaying two workers more than $8,500.
11 January 2010 | As new workplace laws come into affect around Australia the Fair Work Ombudsman has announced a program of visits by inspectors to help guide the country’s more than 50,000 small businesses through the changes.