For nearly seven years, hundreds of workers — most of them migrants and visa holders — quietly received less than they were owed while caring for Australia's elderly. Goodwin Aged Care Services, a registered charity in the ACT and NSW, has now been ordered to return $1.39 million to 335 employees, a reckoning that exposes how legal flexibility mechanisms and technical payroll failures can compound into systemic harm when those most affected are least positioned to speak up. The Fair Work Ombudsman's intervention is not an isolated correction but part of a widening audit of an industry where th
Aged care provider ordered to back pay $1.39m to mostly migrant staff
335 employees, predominantly migrant workers and visa holders, lost wages totaling $1.39 million over approximately seven years, with individual underpayments ranging up to $38,760.