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Two More Cafes In Court Over Compliance Notice Failures

Two more cafes in court over Compliance Notice failures

Two more cafes are in court for Compliance Notice failures requiring them to back-pay workers.

The businesses, Goldream Pty Ltd and Plushbear Pty Ltd, operate the Tall Timber and Friends of Mine cafes in Melbourne.

Also facing court over the wage theft, is the companies common director, Barry Gold.

Compliance Notice failures involve underpayments

Both cafes employ student visa holders and employees on working holiday visas.

The Fair Work Ombudsman accuse both businesses and Gold failing to comply with a Compliance Notice.

The Notice required them to calculate and back-pay alleged underpayments of workers.

Fair Work uncovered the alleged underpayments during audits of businesses in the Richmond area and other popular food destinations in 2018.

Inspectors issued the Compliance Notice after suspecting workers were paid flat rates for all hours worked, including weekends and public holidays between December 2017 and June 2018.

Regulator needs to enforce workplace laws

Industrial advocate Miles Heffernan said the regulator should be enforcing workplace laws.

“Fair Work’s role is to enforce workplace laws, so it’s good to see them doing their job,” he said.

“Greedy bosses have been getting away with wage theft for far too long – and they’ll keep getting away with it until laws are toughened up and enforced.”


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The penalties

Fair Work is seeking penalties of $31,500 each for Goldream Pty Ltd and Plushbear Pty Ltd.

In addition, Gold faces a maximum penalty of $6,300 in both proceedings.

Furthermore, the regulator is seeking the court to order the businesses to rectify the underpayments in full, plus superannuation and interest.

The Federal Circuit Court in Melbourne is listing a directions hearing for 16 April 2020.

The fast food, restaurant and café sectors account for more disputes than any other industries during the past six years.

They made up 56 percent of Fair Work’s new litigations during the last financial year.


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