Sour taste: Australian celebrity chief underpaid employees $5.62 million by Colpackham
SYDNEY - An Australian celebrity chef said on Thursday he had underpaid hundreds of his restaurant employees by nearly A$8 million over six years.
George Calombaris - who shot to worldwide fame through his role on the television show “Masterchef” - said he would repay 515 current and former employees who were underpaid between 2011 and 2017.“It is our priority to ensure all of our employees feel respected, rewarded and supported in their roles.”
The underpayments came to light after a four-year investigation by Australia’s Fair Work Ombudsman, which looks into workplace complaintsAustralia’s hospitality union, United Voice, criticized the fine as too small. “If someone deliberately took $1,000 out of someone else’s bank account, there would be a high likelihood of a criminal conviction for theft,” the union’s national secretary, Jo-anne Schofield, said in a statement.
“But when you’re a multimillionaire restaurateur, celebrity chef, you can take $7.83 million in wages from your workers and get away with a contrition payment.”
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