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10 July 2025, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Wages and underpayments continue to be one of the biggest risks for employers who don’t get it right. Underpayment of wages continues to be prevalent despite the activities of the Fair Work Ombudsman and other authorities to ensure employers are paying their staff correctly.
Often the causes of underpayments are simple errors or misunderstandings of the underlying industrial instrument rather than it being intentional.
Despite this, we continue to see many front-page news stories about wage underpayments by Australian businesses, with particular attention on vulnerable and migrant workers, and other poor practices including sub-standard record keeping. We are also seeing a significant increase in class action underpayment cases.
With the Fair Work Commission’s announcement of 3.5% increase to the National Minimum Wage and Award rates of pay from 1 July 2025, it is now time for employers to consider reviewing the wages paid to its staff to ensure they are meeting their wage obligations, and to avoid potential underpayments and associated penalties, including for wage theft.
Join Nikola Prestia, Partner at HR Legal and Jenny McPherson, Associate on 12.30pm on Thursday 10 July 2025 for a FREE webinar updating employers on their minimum wage obligations.
This webinar will cover:
- Typical causes of wage underpayments;
- How to identify wage underpayments;
- The minefield that is annualised salaries;
- How to proactively prevent wage underpayments and legal risks involved;
- Employer and officer obligations, including what to do if you uncover an underpayment and how to rectify the underpayment;
- Recent activities of the Fair Work Ombudsman;
- Recent underpayment case examples (including high profile cases) and class actions.
Event Details:
| Delivery: | Online via GoTo Webinar |
| Date: | Thursday, 10 July 2025 |
| Time: | 12:30pm – 1:30pm AEST |
| Cost: | FREE |
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