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墨尔本CBD一知名日本餐厅付给50名员工非法低工资，被FAIRWORK要求返还 $77,000 这两家餐厅地址是： Izakaya Den restaurant 位于city Russell Street, Nama Nama restaurant 位于 Spring Street 。Hihou bar 位于 Flinders Lane 。 所有员工都在海外出生，大部分是日本留学生。前员工Yuka Odashima小姐联系了AGE报纸，说她被付工资每小时15澳币，不论节假日。法定最低工资是每小时$16.37,，晚上7点后加薪，早班也要加薪。不包括任何小费。 老板之一Simon Denton, 同意反钱给员工，但说其他餐馆同在city甚至给员工10澳币一小时。老板说他们没有故意发非法低工资。 原文 http://www.smh.com.au/victoria/c ... 20131031-2wkju.html  A well-known Japanese restaurant and bar group in Melbourne's CBD has agreed to repay current and former staff $77,000 in wages it owed to almost 50 workers – most of them overseas students. The repayment came after an investigation into underpayments by the Fair Work Ombudsman. Izakaya Den restaurant in Russell Street, Nama Nama restaurant in Spring Street and the Hihou bar in Flinders Lane will repay wages to 48 staff, a spokesman for the ombudsman said, after the company recognised it had been underpaying them. All of the staff were born overseas, and most were Japanese students, the ombudsman's spokesman said. The repayment to staff came after one former employee, Yuka Odashima, complained to The Age in January that she had been paid a flat rate of $15 an hour for all hours worked. This is below the minimum legal rate of $16.37, which climbs higher for night work after 7pm and higher still for early morning bar work. The pay rate excluded any tips that staff might have received. Ms Odashima, who could not be contacted on Thursday, also went to the Fair Work Ombudsman, which looked into her complaint. The operators of the bar and restaurant businesses voluntarily agreed to back-pay the staff. One of the group's owners, Simon Denton, said in January that his restaurant staff were paid better than those in many similar venues in Melbourne's CBD. Many of his employees had worked at restaurants that had paid them $10 an hour, he said at the time. Mr Denton also could not be reached for comment on Thursday. After meeting with the ombudsman, Mr Denton had agreed to voluntarily identify underpayments of past and present employees, the ombudsman's spokesman said. The largest back-payment to staff was $7641 for an employee who worked as a cook at Nama Nama. Mr Denton told the ombudsman that the company had no intention of deliberately underpaying workers. The business has since hired a workplace specialist to advise on industrial relations, the ombudsman said. Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/victori ... .html#ixzz2jMf2Akjr |
