Unclaimed money for employees

Some Fair Work Ombudsman investigations and voluntary compliance cases result in us receiving payments for outstanding wages and entitlements. This happens when an employer cannot pay money owed to an employee because the employee has left their employment and the employer can not locate them. In these cases the employer pays the money to the Commonwealth.

You can search our database to find out if your former employer paid the Commonwealth money that was owed to you. For a successful search there needs to be a match between the employee name and the Australian Business Number (ABN) or the business name (entity name) of the former employer.

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