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GSS is the latest private security firm to face allegations of underpaying employees.

AFL to dump security firm at Marvel over alleged underpayment

One Melbourne security guard told The Age “it’s almost impossible to find a reputable security firm that does pay correctly”.

  • Cameron Houston and Nick McKenzie

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Migrant workers in hospitality were among those underpaid and not afforded standard worker rights.

‘Every time we had to ask for pay’: Workers are losing billions in migrant wage scandal

The largest study of migrant working conditions in Australia has found 65 per cent are underpaid, with more than one-third earning below the minimum wage.

  • Annika Smethurst
George Calombaris in 2024, when he appointed culinary director at Hotel Sorrento.

The recalibration of George Calombaris: A nervous chef returns to the city that left his empire in ruins

After a high-profile underpayments debacle, George Calombaris found himself in a dark spiral – but he says he came out the other side a different man.

  • Dani Valent
Rebel Sport owner Super Retail is facing a looming class action.

Super Retail board faces fresh legal battle for allegedly tampering with timesheets

Law firm Adero Law is preparing to mount a class action alleging thousands of store managers at Rebel Sport, Supercheap Auto, BCF and Macpac were underpaid for years.

  • Jessica Yun and Colin Kruger
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‘Toxic and very dysfunctional’: Sydney adults-only resort slides into chaos

The exclusive ecotourism retreat has closed its doors amid claims of wage theft, bullying, and a battle over who actually owns it.

  • Ben Cubby
Chatime Australia CEO Carlos Antonius; with Chatime managing director and co-founder Chen “Charlley” Zhao.

‘Ignorance and inattention’: Bubble tea giant Chatime fined for wage scandal

The bubble tea chain and its managing director Chen “Charlley” Zhao have been penalised for ripping off 152 workers in 2016.

  • Jessica Yun
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Universities in WA are paying their top executives more than Premier Roger Cook.

The WA university executives paid more than our state premier

A new report has revealed university executives’ pay, as union figures raise concerns over a lack of scrutiny of those in the top jobs.

  • Holly Thompson
The CPSU will allege up to 1500 staff have been shortchanged a few thousand dollars each over the past six years.

Justice department owes staff millions in back pay, union alleges

Lawyers for the Community and Public Sector Union allege “multiple contraventions” of two enterprise bargaining agreements.

  • Broede Carmody and Kieran Rooney
The Good Weekend cover that featured George Calombaris.

We gave a celeb a ‘halo’ on this magazine cover. Then came the social media pile-on

As journalists, we dish it out and we take it. We can’t – and shouldn’t – complain. But I’d be lying if I said this story didn’t shake me.

  • Katrina Strickland
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Trumpian populism hasn’t taken off in Australia. I think I know why

Living standards in Australia have hardly risen for the past decade, but as disappointing as that is, it’s significantly worse elsewhere.

  • Ross Gittins