The Employment Relations Authority has ordered a retailer
and its director to pay penalties for the failure to pay the minimum wage,
holiday pay, public holiday pay, sick leave and to provide an alternate holiday
for public holidays worked.
In addition to $26,000 of wages and holiday pay owed the
retailer was penalised $12,600 and the director ordered to pay a penalty of
$2,400 for the breaches.
The worker was required to work a 12 hour shift, but was
not provided with a written employment agreement. Their hours of work were not properly
recorded and they were not paid the minimum hourly rate or proper holiday pay.
The penalties imposed would have been substantially more
except for the guilty pleas by both the company and the director. A 50% reduction in penalties was granted.
Alan
Knowsley
Employment
Lawyer Wellington
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