Ikea has turned an eight-week placement program into a permanent recruitment pillar, after achieving success on multiple levels with a pilot refugee workforce inclusion program.
The Federal Government has released a draft strategy to overhaul Australia's "broken" and "crazily complex" migration system, with a major review confirming it is "not fit for purpose" and that some elements, such as labour market testing, should be scrapped entirely.
The Labor Government has introduced its second tranche of promised workplace relations reforms, aiming to close the "loopholes that some businesses use to undercut workers' pay, security and flexibility".
An employer has been fined after underpaying eight employees by $470k over 12 months, in breach of enforceable undertakings it had made only a year earlier.
An employer and two directors have been fined $225,500 for underpaying an employee and then producing false documentation to the Fair Work Ombudsman in a "brazen" cover-up attempt.
The Federal Court has found an employer threatened employees with repatriation to "intimidate them into silence", knowing they would put up with below-award rates and conditions.
