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Restaurant owner to face court for underpaying staff

13/10/2008 11:23:00 AM.  | AAP
A former Melbourne restaurant owner who allegedly underpaid staff by at least n $125,000 is to face court.

The federal Workplace Ombudsman has started legal proceedings against the former owner of Malaysian restaurant KayuBoxhill, which is no longer operating.

The Ombudsman alleged one former staffer received just $9,650 for 18 months full-time work and is still owed $88,000 in back pay.

Documents filed in the Melbourne Magistrates' Court alleged the man underpaid 14 of his employees - including a 457 visa holder - around $125,000.

A part payment of $25,000 has been made, but $96,000 is still owing.

The former owner is being prosecuted for breaches of both the Liquor and Accommodation Industry Victoria Award and the Australian Fair Pay and Classifications Standard.

If convicted, he faces a maximum penalty of $33,000 per breach.

Australian Associated Press

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Monday, 13 October 2008

This employer should be locked away for five yrs and be made to read Bolts and Harris's posts everday on the benefits of Work Choices.He should also be made to read Wipeout's posts for 1 yr because any longer would be inhumane.And finally read 1 week of the GG's posts and that will really teach him a lesson.

Posted by: Lance Freestone,

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Monday, 13 October 2008

Freestone (by your standards) this employer should "be locked away" along with Rudd's wife?? She after all comitted the same "crime"?? Your response will as usual be one-sided and enlightening! Think, BEFORE opening your "one-eyed" mouth!

Posted by: Battler Bolton, Lane Cove

Monday, 13 October 2008

Lance Freestone-And you should be locked away in an asylum. When you can blame an entire system for the mal practices of a few it means that you are short of grey matter. Employers and employees abuse the system every day-no matter what system is in place. And by the way-did you have the brains to register the fact that the employer is to be sued for breaches against the Australian Fair Pay and Classification Standards-a Howard Government initiative. When you try to come over as a comedian at least try and get your facts right.

Posted by: Desmond Harris, Beacon Hill

Monday, 13 October 2008

Desmond you have to understand Lance - It is an all or nothing proposition for him. You are either a filthy capitalist or a divine communist. There is no grey between the light and the dark. He and Henderson just sit there in their government funded wonderland wishing for a system that will drag everyone down to their pathetic level.

Posted by: Mark Sinclair, Maryland

Monday, 13 October 2008

Lance , LL, cannot help himself, even when some have no comment on an article , he still manages to mention them and his obvious hatred of them. In his view it is only his opinion that matters, or is worthy of reading . His use of others names in his very first post on this article, is nothing short of childish. At least post comment on the subject, before attacking others and their views. Grow up.

Posted by: susan lawe, gippsland

 

Monday, 13 October 2008

I have reconsidered the facts and believe 4 yrs reading you two idiots posts will be enough punishment

Posted by: Lance Freestone,

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Monday, 13 October 2008

Lance, you're spot on. If I steal a car, I will be tried in the criminal courts, and especially if I have a history, I may even go to jail. If I steal someone's labour, then I get the kid glove treatment in some quasi-tribunal set up by the Rodent to cover employers, even criminal ones like this. The shrill reactions of Bolton, Harris and Sinclair show how rattled they are now the dirty laundry of the WorkChoices era is coming out.

Posted by: darren carrow, brisbane

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Monday, 13 October 2008

Darrow, so you support Rudd's wife going to jail also? Yes or No. No crap please.

Posted by: Battler Bolton, Lane Cove

Monday, 13 October 2008

No is the answer. The reasoning is: a distinction is able to be drawn, in all lawbreaking, between people who make full restitution when it is discovered they have doen the wrong thing (either by themselves or others), and people, like this employer, who do not. The fact this dispute has ended up in the Court menas that the employees are clearly not satisfied with the response, and that no mutually satisfactory agreement has ben reached.

Posted by: darren carrow, brisbane

Monday, 13 October 2008

The only distinction Darrow is YOUR bias! Anarchy is alive and well and living in Brisbane.

Posted by: Battler Bolton, Lane Cove

Monday, 13 October 2008

Mr Carrow...surely "lawbreaking" is "lawbreaking". Saying "sorry" after you are caught does not excuse the crime, unless you are the PM's wife? Is that what you are saying? I'm with "Bolts" on this one.

Posted by: Gareth Benson, Blacktown

Monday, 13 October 2008

Benson, you seem to be with Bolts on everything. Not suprising really, I would be worried if there was disagreement between the two of you, especially in light of the slipup recently when you posted as Gareth Benson, Lane Cove. I was not discussing saying sorry, I was talking about making good the debt. This story clearly indicated that this has not occured in this case, that is why it is in court. Get it now Boltsen??

Posted by: darren carrow, brisbane

Monday, 13 October 2008

Ah, but you see, it wasn't against the law yet at the the time Rudd's wife exploited the loop hole in work choices in under paying her staff. I think Howard's Australian Fair Pay and Classification Standards came after. Anyway, she only said sorry because the elections were on.

Posted by: A Narchy, The Hills

 

Monday, 13 October 2008

This mongrel dog employer should lose everything and be cast out on the streets to get a taste of life. Even flogging is too good for scum who do this.

Posted by: Graeme Henderson, Darling Downs

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Monday, 13 October 2008

Oh look.....Carrow has been re-incarnated! Or all all Queenslanders silly old anarchistic fossils! Or is it Freestone? Or Ambrose?

Posted by: Battler Bolton, Lane Cove

 
 

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