Comment: The workplace regulator needs to get tough and start using the powers it has to take action against wrongdoers
It was a similar message thatThe message from Professor Fels to the regulator, the Fair Work Ombudsman, was wage underpayment was systemic and entrenched and the regulator needed to get tougher on wrongdoers.
It found at least 150 workers had been underpaid in Chatime’s corporate stores, which are owned and operated by head office. The Chatime operation in Australia is run under the umbrella of a company called Infinite Plus. Two of the directors and shareholders of Chatime in Australia were also directors and shareholders of another company the ombudsman investigated for underpayment issues.
It also instigated legal action in the Federal Circuit Court for the employees to get their back pay. It stated that the maximum penalty for each contravention was $63,000. That case was over $46,000 in wage underpayment.Most workers at Chatime are Chinese or Tawainese students on visas. A Chinese worker at Chatime said they are preferred over Australian workers because it is easier to underpay them and threaten them with a breach of visa conditions if they speak up.
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