Flight Centre in court for alleged underpayment of staff through ‘dubious’ pay system

Five former employees of Flight Centre have told the first day of a trial in the Federal Circuit Court in Brisbane they were pressured to attend after-work functions and expected to do unpaid overtime.

The case is being brought by the Together Union on behalf of the workers, who say they were underpaid a total of $200,000 over a series of years.

Four of the staff members worked in Queensland branches of Flight Centre and one was…