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IGA Supermarket Accused Of Ripping Of Workers
Feb 25th, 2017 at 7:18am
 
IGA supermarket accused of underpaying workers   Sad
February 17, 2017
News.com.au

AN IGA supermarket owner in Melbourne has been accused of ripping off workers. 

Said “Sam” Haddad, who owns and runs the Fairfield IGA supermarket and formerly ran a store in Altona, will face the Federal Court over claims he underpaid young workers and submitted false records to the Fair Work Ombudsman.

Documents filed in court claim the staff members were paid flat rates ranging from $15 to $20 an hour, less than the minimum hourly rates, while scrimping on casual loadings, overtime and penalty rates.   Sad

The Ombudsman says it commenced legal action after Mr Haddad failed to heed an earlier warning.

It is alleged six employees at the two IGA supermarkets were underpaid a total of $11,373 between 2013 and 2015, including three workers aged between 19 and 23.

FWO inspectors investigated after workers asked for help, and allegedly found that two employees at the Altona IGA had been underpaid a combined $7465.

Inspectors then audited the Fairfield IGA and allegedly discovered four employees there had been underpaid a total of $3907.

Other alleged contraventions included failure to pay annual leave entitlements, uniform allowance and an entitlement payable when shifts were less than 12 hours apart; providing false time-and-wages records; breaches relating to pay slips, frequency of pay and agreeing in writing to a regular pattern of work with part-time employees.   Sad

Fair Work Ombudsman Natalie James said legal action had been commenced because of the seriousness of the alleged conduct and the fact that Mr Haddad had allegedly previously been put on notice of his obligations.

“Young workers can be more vulnerable to exploitation as they are often not fully aware of their rights or reluctant to complain,” Ms James said.

Mr Haddad faces maximum penalties of up to $10,800 per contravention. Hadya Nominees Pty and Deja Vu Elite Security Pty Ltd face penalties of up to $51,000 and $54,000 per contravention respectively for a number of alleged contraventions of the Fair Work Act.

In addition to the penalties, the Fair Work Ombudsman is seeking court orders to ensure back payments to two workers who have allegedly not been back-paid and an injunction restraining Mr Haddad from being involved in underpaying workers in future.

The current operators of the Altona IGA supermarket had no involvement in any underpayment matters and no allegations are made against them.
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Re: IGA Supermarket Accused Of Ripping Of Workers
Reply #1 - Feb 25th, 2017 at 7:24am
 
throw the book at him..
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Reply #2 - Feb 25th, 2017 at 7:44am
 
There will be more and more of this as industry and business gets more and more powerful with the aid of a Grubberment who care not for the worker and only focus on industry.

Working poor is here now, soon it will be working destitute.
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Reply #3 - Feb 25th, 2017 at 7:48am
 
Valkie wrote on Feb 25th, 2017 at 7:44am:
There will be more and more of this as industry and business gets more and more powerful with the aid of a Grubberment who care not for the worker and only focus on industry.

Working poor is here now, soon it will be working destitute.



bullshite.. its people mate you are responsible for your actions not the govt.... the govt has put ion place the guide lines...and as you can see the net catches the mongrels..

what on earth do you expect the govt to do..

most small business people are fair dinkum...but there is and always will be those who cheat.

thats what these massive fines are all about....

and in some cases they need jail.
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Reply #4 - Feb 25th, 2017 at 12:45pm
 
cods wrote on Feb 25th, 2017 at 7:48am:
Valkie wrote on Feb 25th, 2017 at 7:44am:
There will be more and more of this as industry and business gets more and more powerful with the aid of a Grubberment who care not for the worker and only focus on industry.

Working poor is here now, soon it will be working destitute.



bullshite.. its people mate you are responsible for your actions not the govt.... the govt has put ion place the guide lines...and as you can see the net catches the mongrels..

what on earth do you expect the govt to do..

most small business people are fair dinkum...but there is and always will be those who cheat.

thats what these massive fines are all about....

and in some cases they need jail.


Every business will do anything even remotely legal to increase their own profits.
If the Grubberment gives them an inch they will stretch it to ten miles.

The ideal situation for our wonderful (Business owned) grubberment is to have a plethora of slaves who have no choice but to work themselves to death to survive.

By giving people no opportunity by making education too expensive for any but the wealthy, allowing business to continually erode wages and allow living expenses to continually rise, a new working destitute will be the norm.

Think on this.
A family with both parents who are unskilled and who are both working for the minimum wage has a couple of kids.
They have to work harder to attempt to raise the kids and cannot save anything.
The kids grow and as the family cannot afford to pay for further education,  so the kids have to get jobs where they can, unskilled labor.
These kids are kept on low wages so they cannot self educate as once working there is no Grubberment aid and they have to use all their wages to eat and keep a roof over their heads.
The parents never own a house, and never have any money for anything but survival, for that is all it is survival.
As they age work is harder and the system sees them as a burden, the Grubberment will not give them a pension because they will have done away with pensions and welfare is impossible to get.
They gradually get weaker and weaker, less and less inclined to try and live.
Finally they just dwindle and die, no loss to the Grubberment as they are no longer paying taxes, so they care not.

Their kids marry and have kids, so the cycle of poverty and slavery goes on and on.
The rich get richer, the poor become slaves.

Then, one day, a man or a woman say, "THIS IS NOT RIGHT"
All the slaves decide to rebel, they all stop working for slave wages.
They all refuse to abide by the rules and work until they die.
They rise up and finally take the Grubberment on.

There will be bloodshed, there will be death, more from the slaves than the Grubberment parasites and rich, but there will be some on both sides.

Without the slaves, businesses begin to fail, money gets tight and the rich start to get poor.
The Grubberment have no fear, they are safe behind their walls and guns.
But a new slave group begins to form and this time there are more and more.

Eventually the Grubberment see the rising tide coming for them, but its too late.
The Grubberment is totally wiped out, none are left and society has to start anew.

Perhaps next time things will be better, but I doubt it.

The best thing for this planet is for a virulent disease to manifest itself that destroys ALL mankind.

Perhaps that's why the Muslim CULT has evolved, to wipe out humanity and give this planet a chance at life.
Perhaps the cockroaches and ants will rule this planet better than us.

They certainly couldn't do any worse.

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Re: IGA Supermarket Accused Of Ripping Of Workers
Reply #5 - Feb 25th, 2017 at 2:23pm
 
whiteknight wrote on Feb 25th, 2017 at 7:18am:
IGA supermarket accused of underpaying workers   Sad
February 17, 2017
News.com.au

Said “Sam” Haddad


That's a nice name.
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