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Brisbane bakery penalised in court
The Fair Work Ombudsman has secured a total of $26,460 in penalties in court against the operator of a retail bakery business in the Brisbane suburb of Mount Ommaney.
T & Sons Pty Ltd, trading as Mount Ommaney Bakehouse, has been penalised $22,050 and its manager Ms Rosa Vo has been penalised a further $4,410 in the Federal Circuit Court.
The penalties were imposed in response to the company failing to comply with a Compliance Notice requiring it to calculate and back-pay entitlements owing to a 15-year-old employee who had worked as a casual shop assistant at the Bakehouse. Ms Vo was involved in the breach.
A bakery ripped off a teen worker then failed to accept they broke workplace laws.
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Subscriber only A Brisbane bakery who ripped off a teen worker by underpaying her wages then failed to accept they broke workplace laws and comply with investigators demands has been fined nearly $30,000 by a court after action by the wages watchdog. Mount Ommaney Bakehouse (MOB) owner T & Sons Pty Ltd and its manager Rosa Vo, of Mt Ommaney, have been fined a total of $26,460 by Federal Circuit Court judge Michael Jarrett for failing to comply with formal demands from the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO).
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Disability Services Australia signs Enforceable Undertaking
Disability Services Australia (DSA) has entered into an Enforceable Undertaking (EU) with the Fair Work Ombudsman and is back-paying employees more than $1.6 million.
The not-for-profit organisation, which provides services to disabled clients throughout NSW and operates a packaging factory at Mascot in Sydney, self-reported underpayments to the FWO in 2019.
After being prompted by an employee query, DSA became aware employees at the Mascot site were being provided with gift vouchers in lieu of overtime payments on Sundays, in contravention of workplace laws.
DSA subsequently commissioned an independent investigation of its compliance with workplace relations laws, which identified a range of non-compliance issues affecting supervisors and production staff at the Mascot site and workers in disability support and caring roles located at various locations throughout Sydney and in regional locations such as the H
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Community Engagement Grants Program recipients named
The Fair Work Ombudsman has awarded a total of $7.2 million to five not-for-profit organisations to provide vulnerable groups with advice, information and assistance about workplace laws.
The Community Engagement Grants Program will see grants of between $1 million and $1.8 million provided to the organisations across four years to support people who have difficulties understanding and exercising their rights under the federal workplace relations system. Funding will be provided from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2024.
Fair Work Ombudsman Sandra Parker said funding has been allocated to organisations that deliver a broad range of services to assist vulnerable individuals across Australia.