Auckland bottle store owner fined close to $50,000 for exploiting worker gets additional charge for legal costs
8 Feb, 2021 12:44 AM
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Super Liquor Papatoetoe has to pay legal costs after an investigation into an exploited worker. Photo / Google Maps
Super Liquor Papatoetoe has to pay legal costs after an investigation into an exploited worker. Photo / Google Maps
A Papatoetoe bottle store owner ordered to pay close to $50,000 for exploiting a migrant worker has had another $15,000 added to the charge for legal costs.
Basra and Khella Ltd, trading as Super Liquor Papatoetoe, was ordered by the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) to pay $18,000 in penalties and more than $28,000 in arrears to a former worker.
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A South Auckland liquor store owner has been ordered to pay over $46,000 after exploiting a migrant worker. Super Liquor Papatoetoe. Source: 1 NEWS
Basra and Khella Limited, trading as Super Liquor Papatoetoe, was ordered by the Employment Relations Authority to pay $18,000 in penalties and more than $28,000 in arrears to the former worker.
The breaches include more than $25,000 in unpaid wages, and more than $3,000 in unpaid holidays and leave allowances.
The worker was commuting six days a week from the North Shore to the Papatoetoe store for work, where shifts would regularly go for 12 hours and were often not paid in full.
Press Release – Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment
A bottle store in Papatoetoe is the latest bottle store to be penalised and ordered to pay arrears for exploiting a migrant worker by breaching their employment rights.
Basra and Khella Limited, trading as Super Liquor Papatoetoe, has been ordered by the Employment Relations Authority to pay $18,000 in penalties and more than $28,000 in arrears to a former worker. The breaches include more than $25,000 in unpaid wages, and more than $3,000 in unpaid holidays and leave allowances.
Due to inaccurate record keeping by Basra and Khella’s sole director and employer Ravinda Basra, the Authority’s determination relied on the worker’s testimony along with his public transport records, time stamped photographs and purchase receipts from neighbouring businesses to prove his claims.
Press Release – Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment A bottle store in Papatoetoe is the latest bottle store to be penalised and ordered to pay arrears for exploiting a migrant worker by breaching their employment rights. Basra and Khella Limited, trading as Super Liquor Papatoetoe, has been ordered by …
A bottle store in Papatoetoe is the latest bottle store to be penalised and ordered to pay arrears for exploiting a migrant worker by breaching their employment rights.
Basra and Khella Limited, trading as Super Liquor Papatoetoe, has been ordered by the Employment Relations Authority to pay $18,000 in penalties and more than $28,000 in arrears to a former worker. The breaches include more than $25,000 in unpaid wages, and more than $3,000 in unpaid holidays and leave allowances.
Press Release – Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment A bottle store in Papatoetoe is the latest bottle store to be penalised and ordered to pay arrears for exploiting a migrant worker by breaching their employment rights. Basra and Khella Limited, trading as Super Liquor Papatoetoe, has been ordered by …
A bottle store in Papatoetoe is the latest bottle store to be penalised and ordered to pay arrears for exploiting a migrant worker by breaching their employment rights.
Basra and Khella Limited, trading as Super Liquor Papatoetoe, has been ordered by the Employment Relations Authority to pay $18,000 in penalties and more than $28,000 in arrears to a former worker. The breaches include more than $25,000 in unpaid wages, and more than $3,000 in unpaid holidays and leave allowances.