The Fair Work Commission has issued their Annual Wage Review which will apply from the first full pay period on or after 1 July 2019 and will see both the national minimum wage and the modern award minimum wages increase by 3%.
On 23 February 2017, Fair Work Commission handed down a decision to vary penalty rates for some awards. These changes will come into effect from 1 July 2017.
To give some common examples, where this might occur is where you might damage property in the workplace or even an employer taking amounts out of your wage to top up a cash register that hasn’t balanced after your shift. However, if your employer has ever actually taken deductions from your wage for those reasons, or any reasons similar, they may be breaching national employment legislation.
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