FWO audits cleaning operations at Optus Stadium

Fair Work Ombudsman conducts surprise audit amid ongoing investigation at major sports venues.

23 September, 2019

Stadiums’ cleaning contractors audited

Fair Work Ombudsman conducts surprise audits in Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra.

9 September, 2019

Union seeks $1m penalty from Spotless

Cleaner’s union alleges Spotless conspired to underpay cleaners more than $270,000.

30 July, 2018

United Voice supports new bill to protect working Australians from exploitation

Union urges all parliamentarians, ‘regardless of their political affiliations’, to support bill, which the Labor Party will introduce this March.

25 February, 2016

Sham contracting is never acceptable, states BSCAA

The peak body representing contract cleaning in Australia, Building Service Contractors Association of Australia (BSCAA), has issued a statement in response to recent publicity regarding the underpayment of wages

9 December, 2015

Glad Group’s sham contracting practices exposed by Union raids

The cleaner’s union, United Voice, ran the first of a series of raids on cleaning company Glad Group last week after exposing its practice of repeatedly underpaying international students, stated a 26 September press release.  The raid confirmed that subcontractors engaged by integrated property services company Glad Group were illegally paying international student cleaners almost […]

30 September, 2013

FWO alleges holidaying foreign worker underpaid as cleaner

Sydney private cleaning company Jooine (Investment) Pty Ltd and owner Jae Kye Lee face severe fines for allegedly exploiting and underpaying a South Korean man to work as a cleaner whilst on a working holiday to Australia, the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) alleges in a 24 July media release. Lee and his company allegedly breached the sham contracting […]

24 July, 2012