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Company profile · Logistics and warehousing
Calder & Hume Distribution
Logistics and warehousing · estimated 600 staff · one entity, resolved
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Below standard · 40–59
Low confidence · 8 reports · 3 verified · est. 600 staff · 1 October 2024 – 30 September 2026 · T3 4 · T3-R 1 · T2 3 · T1 3 · T0 2 · rubric v1.2
8 reports from an estimated 600 staff — 1.3% of the workforce.
Low confidence — not for citation
Status
On Watch — active documented Adverse Flag within 12 months (Federal Court orders, 7 April 2026).
The composite unit
The confidence, the counted reports, the verified count and the estimated headcount are part of this number the way a decimal point is part of a number. They are never stripped, never abbreviated and never separated from the figure. If a surface cannot carry the whole unit, that surface shows no number at all.
Calder & Hume Distribution did not apply for this score
Calder & Hume Distribution did not apply for this score, earn it or receive it as an award, and it cannot display it. There is no seal, no certificate and no badge. The score is imposed on every employer we can evidence, and it is universal.
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Flags · T3 documentary evidence only
Every flag rests on a document.
A flag may rest only on the public record — a court, tribunal or regulator finding, a statutory register, or something the company published or filed itself. Every string below carries its source and its date inside the string, because a screenshot strips everything around it.
Adverse and Favourable are told apart by form, never by hue
Filled tag and solid spine against outlined tag and hatched spine, plus the words themselves. Both are set in the same ink, so the distinction survives a black-and-white print.
Nothing that rests on worker reports appears in this section.
Adverse flags · 4
Adverse flag · Documented
Documented — Federal Court orders, 7 April 2026: penalties imposed for failure to keep employee records for 31 employees over two years.
Criterion · record-keeping contraventions established by a court
Adverse flag · Documented
Documented — regulator infringement notice, 22 June 2026: casual conversion requests not responded to within the statutory period.
Criterion · statutory response deadline missed on casual conversion
Adverse flag · Documented
Documented — company announcement, 1 September 2026: site closure notified to 84 employees with 11 days notice.
Criterion · closure notified inside the consultation period
Adverse flag · Documented
Documented — safety regulator prohibition notice, 3 August 2026: mechanical handling equipment withdrawn from service at the Altona site.
Criterion · prohibition notice served on plant in active use
Favourable flags · none
No favourable flag is published for this employer. An absent flag is an absence of evidence in the public record, and is never displayed as a finding either way.
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Pillar breakdown · Eight pillars, canonical order
Eight pillars, each with its own sample.
Length is quantity and form is confidence. The ink never changes, so no pillar is coloured better or worse than another. A pillar below its reporting threshold shows no number at any size or in any tone.
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Flexibility & Work Location
Weight 12 of 100
Low confidence
7 reports in this pillar
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40
Pay & Reward Integrity
Weight 18 of 100
Low confidence
7 reports in this pillar
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38
Job Security & Workforce Practices
Weight 16 of 100
Low confidence
6 reports in this pillar
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Not enough reports
Management Quality
Weight 12 of 100
Below threshold
4 reports in this pillar
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Not enough reports
Workload & Wellbeing
Weight 14 of 100
Below threshold
3 reports in this pillar
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54
Hiring Conduct
Weight 8 of 100
Low confidence
5 reports in this pillar
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Not enough reports
Fair Treatment & Voice
Weight 12 of 100
Below threshold
2 reports in this pillar
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Ethics & Transparency
Weight 8 of 100
Low confidence
5 reports in this pillar
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Public record · T3 Documented, T3-R Reported
The record, with the source inside every string.
T3 Documented originates a flag. T3-R Reported is somebody else’s reporting: it may corroborate, date or locate a T3 artefact, and it may never stand in for one.
- T3 — Federal Court orders, 7 April 2026: record-keeping penalties, 31 employees.
- T3 — Regulator infringement notice, 22 June 2026: casual conversion.
- T3 — Safety regulator prohibition notice, 3 August 2026: Altona site.
- T3 — Company announcement, 1 September 2026: site closure, 84 employees, 11 days notice.
- T3-R — Reported by The Daily Ledger, 9 April 2026 — corroborates the Court orders and does not originate a flag.
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What we don’t know · Absence is displayed, never inferred
A thin record is a thin record, never a clean bill.
What is missing is published in the same place as what is present. An absence of evidence is never rendered as a good result.
The gaps in this profile
- Three pillars are not scored. Management Quality, Workload & Wellbeing and Fair Treatment & Voice are all below their reporting thresholds, so no number publishes for any of them and their weights are not counted in the number above.
- 8 counted reports at an employer estimated at 600 staff is 1.3% of the workforce. The score publishes with Low confidence attached and is marked not for citation.
- Three of the eight reports are verified. The rest are signed-in or anonymous.
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Right of reply · Free, permanent, unpaid, published verbatim
Invited to reply, and no reply received.
Every company gets a free, permanent right of reply. The invitation is dated and logged whether or not it is taken up, and silence is recorded as silence rather than read as agreement.
Calder & Hume Distribution was invited to reply on 8 October 2026 and has not replied. The reply slot stays open permanently and the reply publishes here unedited whenever it arrives.
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Alternatives · Companies like this one
A number is no use to anyone without somewhere else to go.
Comparables are matched on sector and size band, and each carries its own complete unit.
Names only, never logos
There are no affiliate links, and the selection criteria are published so the comparison can be checked rather than trusted. A company with too few reports appears as it is, with no number at all, rather than being quietly left out.
ACME Pty Ltd
62
Fair · 60–74
Moderate confidence · 14 reports · 6 verified · est. 900 staff · 1 October 2024 – 30 September 2026 · T3 5 · T3-R 2 · T2 6 · T1 6 · T0 2 · rubric v1.2
14 reports from an estimated 900 staff — 1.6% of the workforce.
Northwind Logistics
71
Fair · 60–74
High confidence · 88 reports · 54 verified · est. 1,200 staff · 1 October 2024 – 30 September 2026 · T3 4 · T3-R 1 · T2 54 · T1 26 · T0 8 · rubric v1.2
88 reports from an estimated 1,200 staff — 7.3% of the workforce.
Baynard Group
Not enough worker reports to publish a score yet
Insufficient confidence · est. 1,500 staff · 1 October 2024 – 30 September 2026
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Method and caveats · Rubric v1.2
What produced this number, and what it cannot tell you.
The method is published in advance, in full, and every change to it is published before it takes effect.
The method behind this profile
- Counted reports: 8. Verified: 3. Evidence window: 1 October 2024 – 30 September 2026. Rubric v1.2.
- Tier mix: T3 4 · T3-R 1 · T2 3 · T1 3 · T0 2. The 8 counted reports are the T2, T1 and T0 rows (3 + 3 + 2); the T3 and T3-R rows are the five public-record items.
- Publication cohort. 1 July – 30 September 2026, published 8 October 2026. A cohort is frozen at publication and its denominator is never quietly restated.
- Response rate. 8 reports at an employer estimated at 600 staff is 1.3% of the workforce.
- Self-selection. Workers who choose to report are not a random sample of the workforce.
- Movement between quarters is shown as band movement, never as point deltas.
- Pillar weights sum to 100 and are fixed for the life of rubric v1.x. A pillar below its reporting threshold leaves both sides of the calculation — its weight is not counted and it is not scored as a zero — so this number is the weight-weighted mean of the 5 pillars above that did score.