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Canberra café operator faces Court over serious record-keeping failures

The operator of a Canberra café and its directors are facing court for alleged serious contraventions of record-keeping and payslip laws. The Fair...

Byron Bay’s Beach Hotel on the market

The big news is that one of Australia’s most iconic pubs, the Beach Hotel in Byron Bay, has dropped its asking price to $75 million. Melbourne businessman Max...

Fund manager targets Four Points Sydney

Aggressive Melbourne fund manager Impact Investment Group has snapped up the Sheraton’s Four at Central Park. The $190 million deal has also seen it...

TRIBE to make its debut in Perth

Australia’s first TRIBE hotel is coming to Australia and the first one will be opening in Perth. TRIBE will be very different. While the opening of...

Outback Steakhouse underpays workers on training scheme

National restaurant chain Outback Steakhouse has been accused of using a training scheme to underpay workers. Workers say it used a government-subsidised...

KKR moves in on Tabcorp-Tatts merger

An eleventh hour bid by  Pacific Consortium, which includes private equity firm KKR, Morgan Stanley’s infrastructure arm, Macquarie Group and First...

Celebrity chef Adrian Richardson forced to top up staff pay

Another top chef has run into trouble breaching Fair Work Laws. This one is Adrian Richardson, star of Ten's Good Chef Bad Chef. Several disgruntled...

457 ban will hit the tech and hospitality sector

Employers in the hospitality and tech industries are now facing a new recruitment landscape with the Turnbull government’s ban on 457 visas. The two...

Landsdowne Hotel brings live music back to Sydney

Sydney is getting one of its real iconic music hotels back. The Landsdowne Hotel in Chippendale is reopening in June. The venue has been shut since 2015. The...

Gold Coast businesses penalised for underpaying workers

Gold Coast workers who had been underpaid for years managed to get their money and entitlements after their case was taken up by the Fair Work Ombudsman. The...