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Fair Work Ombudsman Sandra Parker<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

May 5, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Fair Work Ombudsman has urged agriculture sector employers to prioritise compliance with labour laws.<\/p>\n

The regulator has investigated 330 businesses in regional hot spots across Australia since its agriculture strategy began in December 2021.<\/p>\n

Site inspections targeted employers in regions where intelligence suggested non-compliance may be common.<\/p>\n

Fair Work Ombudsman Sandra Parker said the regulator\u2019s agriculture strategy had highlighted the importance of employers following record-keeping and pay slip laws.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cRecord-keeping is a bedrock of meeting workplace laws,\u201d Ms Parker said. \u201cBreaches related to record-keeping can indicate increased risks of underpaying, whether intentionally or not.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fair Work Inspectors have issued 64 Infringement Notices for pay slip and record-keeping breaches, with employers fined a total of $176,028.<\/p>\n

Fifty-five of the Infringement Notices were issued to labour hire entities and nine to growers.<\/p>\n

Ms Parker said inspectors had consistently found higher levels of non-compliance in relation to labour hire companies, as opposed to growers who directly hired workers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a red flag if workers can\u2019t identify their employer and are paid cash-in-hand, without pay slips, by individuals seemingly unrelated to the apparent employing entity. This is prevalent in multi-level supply chains where we consistently find wrongdoing,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Inspectors have also issued 18 Compliance Notices, 10 for underpayments and eight for non-monetary breaches. They issued nine of the Compliance Notices to labour hire entities and nine to growers.<\/p>\n

Five were handed out on-the-spot during recent site inspections to employers who had failed to provide new workers with the required information statements.<\/p>\n

\u201cFailing to hand out the\u00a0Fair Work Information Statement or Casual Employment Statement<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to new workers is no trivial matter,\u201d Ms Parker said. \u201cWe expect employers to meet this legal obligation, which helps to keep their hard-working employees informed.\u201d<\/p>\n

She warned that unannounced hot spot inspections would continue this year.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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