New Laws for Casual Workers in Australia.
Some Australians prefer casual employment as the wages are higher than a permanent employee. Normally 25% higher.
The Australian government is moving ahead with further employment reform that will force employers to offer casual workers who work regular hours a permanent job.
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According to the ABS, the June 2023 unemployment rate (Trend) for Australia remained at 3.5%.
This was a slight reduction from 507,000 in May 2023, down to 505,500 in June 2023.
The number employed increased to 14,045,800 from 14,006,800 in May 2023.
The Fair Work Ombudsman has recovered $404,721 in wages for 623 underpaid workers after investigating employers in Brisbane’s food precincts.
Fair Work Inspectors investigated 77 businesses across a range of suburbs, including Brisbane CBD, South Brisbane, Fortitude Valley and Sunnybank. They found 75 per cent of businesses had breached workplace … Read the rest
The Fair Work Ombudsman has commenced legal action against the former operators of a Vietnamese bakery in Melbourne.
Facing court are VUF Investments Pty Ltd, which formerly operated ‘Luke’s Bakery’ in Reservoir, and its sole director, Hoang Long Vu.
The regulator began an … Read the rest
The Fair Work Ombudsman recovered more than $532 million for 384,805 underpaid workers in 2021-22. This is a record sum of back-paid wages and entitlements for a record number of employees.
That is an overall average of about $1,380 per person.
The recoveries, detailed in the workplace regulator’s latest Annual … Read the rest
The average female median full time wage has ranged between 79.37% and 96.15% of the male median wage during 2021.
It has also changed from 85.76% in 2004, up to 89.55% in 2021.
Wage differences between Male and Female, might … Read the rest
Australian Median employee earnings increased by $50 (4.3%) between August 2020 and August 2021, to $1,200 per week.
The figure for Median wages differs from the often produced Average figure, and is commonly about 20% lower then the average.
The Median Figure is the … Read the rest
29 September 2022.
The Fair Work Ombudsman has commenced legal action against the operators of a take-away food outlet in Melbourne.
Facing court are The Carers Portland Inc, which operates ‘HCM Café Fresh Q Lunch’ based at Dandenong South, and its secretary, … Read the rest
What happens when an employer does not pay an employee correctly in Australia?
In Australia there are laws that can enforce compliance with employees pay rights.
A recent example is the following:
In May 2021, a Fair Work Inspector issued a Compliance Notice to Skyjohn Pty Ltd after forming a … Read the rest
Over 14 million people in Australia did some Unpaid domestic work during the week up to Census night.
The actual figure is 14,077,657 people, or 67.7% of the population.
Unpaid domestic work can include:
