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Date Time Breakthru signs Enforceable Undertaking Disability services provider Breakthru Pty Ltd is back-paying employees more than $2.7 million and has entered into an Enforceable Undertaking (EU) with the Fair Work Ombudsman. The registered charity, which operates in NSW, Victoria and Queensland self-reported underpayments to the workplace regulator in March 2020. During the process of negotiating a new enterprise agreement, Breakthru became aware that it had incorrectly classified a number o...

Date Time ASIC obtains compliance orders for court enforceable undertaking The Federal Court made orders yesterday, 11 March 2021, compelling Gold Coast accountant Jenan Oslem Thorne (also known as Cenan Thorne or Cenan Dikmen), of Saber Superannuation Pty Ltd, to comply with the terms of a court enforceable undertaking (CEU) that she previously entered with ASIC. Ms Thorne first entered into an CEU with ASIC on 13 February 2019, following an ASIC investigation that found she failed to act in h...

EPA The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has fined concrete supplier Hymix Australia Pty Ltd for an alleged water pollution incident and allegedly failing to operate control equipment in a proper and efficient manner. The EPA inspected the Hymix concrete batching plant at Kincumber, near Gosford on 19 October 2020 in response to community concerns over dirty water pollution coming from the plant. During the inspection, EPA officers found evidence of concrete waste water discharging in...

Date Time Share Dover Financial Advisers to pay $1.2 million penalty and its sole director to pay $240,000 penalty for false or misleading conduct The Federal Court has ordered that Dover Financial Advisers Pty Ltd (Dover) pay a $1.2 million penalty for engaging in false or misleading conduct, and that Terrence (Terry) McMaster, Dover’s sole director, pay a $240,000 penalty for being knowingly concerned in Dover’s conduct. These penalties follow the Federal Court’s 22 November 2019 judgm...

The Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) has recovered $389,982 in unpaid wages for 163 security guards following an investigation into 19 security businesses in...

In the media Productivity Commission report charts change in social housing provision The annual 2021 Productivity Commission report on government services and housing reveals that the ongoing long-term reduction in the number of public housing dwellings (17 February 2021). More... Victoria Designs and tender released for eighth vertical school Victoria will soon have another new vertical government school to address population growth across the inner city. The project has been funded by the L...

Date Time ASIC commences civil penalty proceedings against CommSec and AUSIEX for systemic compliance failures ASIC has commenced civil penalty proceedings in the Federal Court against Commonwealth Securities Limited (CommSec) and Australian Investment Exchange Limited (AUSIEX) for alleged breaches of the Market Integrity Rules, Corporations Act and ASIC Act (CommSec only) relating to systemic compliance failures in the delivery of financial services. ASIC alleges the conduct spanned a signific...

NT WorkSafe Tennant Creek electrical services company Ridem Pty Ltd (trading as Dexter Barnes Electrical) and company director Russell O’Donnell, have been handed a combined penalty of more than $160,000 after pleading guilty to charges relating to the death of a fourth year apprentice electrician. The sentence was handed down yesterday in the Alice Springs Local Court. The 34-year-old apprentice was electrocuted on 25 February 2019, while working unsupervised with another electrical apprenti...

Six of Australia's largest banking and financial services institutions have paid or offered a total of $1.24 billion in compensation, as at 31 December...

With Commissioner for Consumer Protection Lanie Chopping It’s hard to believe that until 10 years ago there were 17 different national, state and territory laws covering consumer issues in Australia. They were all replaced on 1 January 2011 with one law – the Australian Consumer Law (ACL), which meant that no matter where they are in this country, consumers can know their rights and traders their obligations. We are all consumers in one form or another, so as the ACL enters its second decad...