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.
Thursday, 24 December 2020, 10:02 am
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
Mike Petrucci
The unnamed migrant worker would sometimes work shifts of up to 12 hours to keep the liquor store running. (File photo) The authority heard the worker was commuting six days a week from their home on the North Shore to South Auckland for work, where shifts would regularly go for 12 hours and were often not paid in full. Ward said the inspectorate was working with bottle store franchisors to stamp out exploitation in this industry. “Since these breaches occurred in 2017 and 2018, Super Liquor have taken significant steps to improve their compliance with employment minimum standards. We expect other franchises and brands to follow Super Liquor’s lead, and do more to stop exploitation before it happens in their stores,” she said.