Federal Circuit Court has ordered an owner and operator of two Sushi food outlets to pay $108,000 of penalties following a Fair Work audit that identified they failed to keep proper pay records and conditions.
Company Penalised For No Records – Direct Yong Sin Kim has been ordered to pay $10,660 worth of penalties and fellow directors Hyun Jun Kang and Jungpyo Lee also penalised $3,500 each.
The outlets were visited by Fair Work Inspectors for an audit and found that they had failed to keep proper time and wage records while also failing to issue any payslips to employees.
Nine visa holders were underpaid a total of $19,467 in wages and $7,416 in superannuation between October and December 2017. All workers were working in Australia on working holiday, student and vocational education visas.
Individual payments ranged from $214.00 to $4,857.00, which was between 7.69% and 43.32% of the total wages the employees were owed.
Workers were underpaid minimum ordinary hourly rates, weekend penalty rates and overtime rates under the Fast Food Industry Award 2010. No annual or personal leave was accrued. All the directors were involved in leave breaches. All wages and superannuation has been back-paid.
Source: Fair Work
Title: Sushi operators penalised $125,000
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