The Fair Work Ombudsman has secured $30,870 in penalties in court against the operators of a Perth manufacturer of custom-fit floor, boot and cargo mats.
By Cam Lucadou-Wells
Greater Dandenong Council is standing by a recycling contractor accused of underpaying refugees on visas nearly $200,000.
Polytrade is being prosecuted in the Federal Court by the Fair Work Ombudsman for allegedly underpaying five workers at Dandenong and Hallam a total of $194,249 over 20 months.
Polytrade Employment Services – which supplied labour to Polytrade – and Polytrade’s husband-and-wife owners Man Sang Chen and Pui Shan Ho are also charged.
Greater Dandenong Council has taken a nation-leading public stance on behalf of refugees and asylum seekers, leading a multi-council Back Your Neighbour campaign against federal welfare cuts.
Its mayors have chaired the Local Government Mayoral Taskforce Supporting People Seeking Asylum.
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Cleaning operator penalised
The Fair Work Ombudsman has secured a penalty in court against the operator of a Ballarat cleaning business.
The Federal Circuit Court has imposed a $1250 penalty against Kerryn Elizabeth Ainley, who operates the ‘Cleaning Fairy’ business as a sole trader.
The penalty was imposed in response to Ms Ainley breaching the Fair Work Act by failing to comply with a Compliance Notice requiring her to calculate and back-pay entitlements owing to four cleaners she had employed.
Ms Ainley back-paid the cleaners, who had been underpaid a total of $18,603 over an 18-month period, only after the Fair Work Ombudsman commenced legal action against her. The Compliance Notice was not fully complied with until about the day of the penalty hearing, in December 2020.