Thursday, February 23, 2012

Teen allegedly sacked over low pay query

http://finance.ninemsn.com.au/national/8424454/teen-allegedly-sacked-over-low-pay-query

A Perth aviation business and its director have been accused of sacking a teenager after his mum queried his alleged pay of just over $5 an hour.

The pay rate should have been more than $7 an hour, but a boy was being pay $5.32 an hour.
The teenager and his mother filed a complaint and now the aviation business is being prosecuted because of the dismissal allegedly constituted a serious breach of workplace law.
The owner is now facin a max penalty of $6600 and the company $33,000 for the breach of the fair work act.

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