Gold Coast café and director fined for back-pay indiscretion
The Federal Circuit Court has handed down a $16,000 penalty for a Gold Coast café and an additional $3,000 fine for its director for failing to adequately account for back-pay entitlement for two of its workers.
The penalties against Sun Sea Equity Pty Ltd, which traded as “3 Beans” in the Broadbeach area, and its sole director Natasha Doumani were imposed in response to the company breaching the Fair Work Act by failing to comply with a compliance notice requiring the company to correctly calculate and back-pay entitlements owing to two casual café workers, aged in their 20s.
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