An HR professional has been fined more than $100k, amid more than $4 million in penalties handed down after a "deliberate" scheme to deprive workers of their entitlements.
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CBA HR managers were "indifferent" to the risks that individual flexibility arrangements weren't meeting employees' EA entitlements, the Federal Court has ruled.
Commonwealth Bank and its subsidiary CommSec have been fined $10.34 million for "systematic" underpayments, after taking years to address non-compliance it was aware of.
A casual employee who complained about being underpaid and was then punished with reduced hours had no real choice but to resign, the Fair Work Commission has ruled.
Amendments to the Closing Loopholes Bill have been "hurriedly prepared" and "do little to allay a raft of significant and growing employer concerns", critics say.
An employee's role began as a "regular paid job, but soon changed to an exploitative nightmare", a tribunal has found in awarding her $85k in penalties.
The University of New South Wales is being prosecuted for Fair Work Act breaches, with the Fair Work Ombudsman alleging the employer's record-keeping was "so poor" that it couldn't properly investigate self-reported underpayments.
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