Three-out-of-four wage frauds hit foreigners

More than three quarters of wage-fraud-related court actions taken by the Fair Work Ombudsman involved foreign workers on visas.

7-Eleven sprung shortchanging some workers

7-Eleven has been sprung short-changing some workers potentially millions of dollars in back pay by changing the way compensation payouts are being calculated.

'I've employed a lot of those exploited people'

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John Ibrahim knows the Caltex franchise business better than most. He also knows that underpayment of wages is getting worse.

50 Caltex stations under investigation

Oil giant Caltex is in damage control as it widened an internal investigation to include the Rana family, one of its largest franchisee groups.

Tip-offs, intimidation in Caltex wage scandal

Oil giant Caltex tipped off its service station owners that they were about to be raided by the workplace regulator amid allegations of systemic wage fraud.

Fair Work gives dodgy operators an edge

Here we go again. This time it is oil giant Caltex embroiled in allegations of worker exploitation happening across a national franchise network of more than 650 stores.

Michael was buried two days before Christmas, as co-workers partied

Tracey Bowker read online that a young man had been struck down and killed in the early hours of the morning by a high-speed train.

Heads need to roll over systemic problems in our banks

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This isn't about one or two bad apples, this is about systems capabilities, governance oversights.

7-Eleven, sex slaves targeted by migrant taskforce

Domestic slavery, sex slaves and scandal-ridden convenience store chain 7-Eleven are top of the agenda for a new powerful government-run migrant taskforce headed by Professor Allan Fels.