Penalty rates

Analysis 26 Oct

Shop Distributive and Allied Employees’ Association v Woolworths SA Pty Ltd: purposive reading of agreements

Enterprise agreements are read by their purpose and in their industrial context, not narrowly or pedantically, because their framers were likely of a practical bent. The Fair Work Commission relies on it in dispute resolution matters, including redundancy pay, and the Full Court of the…

[2011] FCAFC 67

Case law Federal Court

Haymarket restaurant director ordered to pay $162,514.28 over flat-rate underpayments as Fair Work Ombudsman wins default judgment

Case law WA Industrial Relations Commission

Perth food court outlet ordered to pay $1,459.44 after a flat hourly rate failed to cover weekend and public holiday penalty rates

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NSW TrainLink part-timer’s 8am and 8pm shifts on the same day were not a broken shift, Full Bench finds

Case law FWC Full Bench · 30 Sep

EDI Rail must review annual rate after Full Bench finds 12-hour night shifts reach 39.5 per cent of working time

Case law FWC Full Bench · 25 Sep

Woolworths flex-up penalty dispute dismissed after neither party consented to arbitration

Case law Fair Work Commission · 23 Sep

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What the Woolworths and Coles judgment settles for payroll, rosters and remediation

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Crown Perth croupiers’ redundancy pay does not include weekend penalty rates, Fair Work Commission finds

Case law Federal Court · 1 Sep

Federal Court finds highest penalty rate discharges the others where one hour attracts more than one

Case law Federal Court · 25 Aug

Target annual leave pay must include penalty rates for unsociable hours, Full Court finds, with SDA’s over-award bid rejected