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Record fines have been dished out for the “audacious” underpayment of migrant workers by a once-sprawling Australian sushi chain. Sushi Bay group companies were ordered to pay fines totalling $13.7 million by the Federal Court on Monday after it was revealed workers were deliberately denied entitlements including penalty rates and annual leave payments. Company boss Yi Jeong “Rebecca” Shin was personally ordered to pay a penalty of $1.
Some employees were also unreasonably required to pay part of their wages back to their employers while the companies made false records in an attempt to cover up the conduct. “The overwhelming majority of the contraventions were committed deliberately and intentionally,” Justice Katzmann said in her judgment. “The respondents’ conduct was both calculated and audacious.
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