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Hundreds of businesses caught out in wage theft sting – Yahoo Finance Australia
Workers in Melbourne’s Degraves Street and Hardware Lane, and Brisbane’s West End have been systematically underpaid.
Workers in Melbourne and Brisbanes popular dining precincts are among the 1,351 Australians receiving $1,212,727 in recovered wages after a major sting from the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO).
Between December 2018 and March 2020 the FWO investigated the Degraves Street and Hardware Lane dining precincts in Melbourne and Brisbanes West End precinct for signs of underpayment, as well as revisiting former offending businesses across the country.
It found that 84 per cent of the 49 businesses in Mel…
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