Fair Work Ombudsman plays Santa to under-paid Canberrans

EvanJames said :

I am surprised the FWO has had such success. A young person I worked with had major issues (culminating in an unfair dismissal) and the FWO seemed fairly toothless. Well-intentioned, but toothless.

subscribe to their updates (via fwo.gov.au) it seems that they get back tens of thousands on a daily basis.

When employers can’t get people to work for them at the rates they offer, they scream blue murder until the government lets them import cheaper workers from overseas. Which is what many of them are doing.

I am surprised the FWO has had such success. A young person I worked with had major issues (culminating in an unfair dismissal) and the FWO seemed fairly toothless. Well-intentioned, but toothless.

🙂 Damn fine! I hope they fine the bastards who exploited robbed these people within an inch of their miserable lives.

Hair dressing is already one of the poorest paying industries – ripping someone off to the tune of 15K is disgraceful. I really wish the FWO would name and shame.

I cannot believe my hard-earned taxes are being paid to bully and harass employers who are after nothing more than a fair go. Since when is it the government’s job to assume the role of whinger for people too weak to stand up for their own rights?

Don’t like your pay? Resign! Don’t like your conditions? Leave! If you, the workers of Straya don’t let the bosses know what you are prepared to put up with, how are they supposed to know where to draw the line? Eventually the bosses will run out of workers and then they’ll start paying proper money for a proper day’s work.

Until then, I assume this organisation of fat cats and lawyers will continue to pick on sole traders and struggling businesses who, for heaven’s sake, are already having trouble paying the lease on the Merc and finding tradesmen for the McMansion in Nicholls.