A Melbourne Muffin Break franchise has been fined after admitting 360 charges relating to the illegal employment of three 14-year-old children last year.
The children had all approached the store looking for work, the company's barrister Cassie Serpell told Melbourne Magistrates Court on Monday.
On 70 occasions the children worked longer than three hours without being given their required 30-minute breaks, and they were employed for longer shifts than allowed on 69 occasions. Though that didn't meet the legal requirements it was further context to the offending, Serpell said."They realise they should have got legal advice of that nature prior to starting the business."
The court heard they had suffered health and sleeping difficulties as a result, were frequently stressed and depressed, and had fallen into debt with Muffin Break and Southland mall management - owing $171,000 in back rent.
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