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An accountancy firm that knowingly failed to maintain current award rates of pay in its MYOB payroll system has been found accessorially liable for an employer's underpayments.

Retail and hospitality only accounts for about one-third of the 2.75 million employees who work on a typical weekend, according to a new report.

Queensland's Palaszczuk Labor Government will introduce legislation this month to mandate the licensing of labour hire companies from next year, setting the pace for other Labor states such as Victoria and South Australia.

Fair Work Ombudsman Natalie James says low penalties are creating a "perverse incentive" for a "dangerous minority" of employers to use inaccurate or incomplete records to conceal underpayments, forcing the watchdog to use novel, labour-intensive strategies to piece together employees' working hours.

A CFMEU lodge secretary is considering challenging a contempt finding against him over his refusal to comply with a court order to allow a search of his home.

Caltex has established a $20 million "assistance fund" for franchise employees who have been underpaid, but insists that its franchising model does not need fixing.

Qube Logistics has today taken the first steps toward pursuing about 30 employees over bans on loading and unloading containers at the Port Botany facility of its half-owned operation, Patrick Stevedores.

FWC Deputy President Anna Booth told Patrick and the MUA today that she is prepared to sit until midnight next Wednesday to hear and determine the stevedore's application for s418 orders to halt alleged industrial action at its Port Botany container terminal, while the company claims it will pursue the union for losses of up to half a million dollars a day.

Half a million retail and fast food workers employed under agreements negotiated by the SDA are more than $300 million a year worse off than they would be under awards, a Senate inquiry has been told.

A tribunal has upheld the sacking of a general manager's personal assistant for storing more than 1200 inappropriate and pornographic emails in a "funny emails" folder, but has compensated her because it was harsh.