Former CM’s Fashion operator slammed in Fair Work underpayment case as “repeat offender”

Business owners and operators have been reminded they are personally responsible for staff underpayments, not just their company, following a Fair Work Ombudsman underpayment case. A former operator of Melbourne retail chain CM’s Fashion has been fined $11,220 by the Federal Circuits Court for underpaying a store manager by $5000. The store manager resigned in […]

Yolanda Redrup 08 July, 2013

Business owners and operators have been reminded they are personally responsible for staff underpayments, not just their company, following a Fair Work Ombudsman underpayment case.

A former operator of Melbourne retail chain CM’s Fashion has been fined $11,220 by the Federal Circuits Court for underpaying a store manager by $5000.

The store manager resigned in February 2010, but upon quitting was not paid the appropriate annual leave entitlements. The court ordered owner/operator Uri Burke repay the former employee $5000 plus an additional $1422 interest within 60 days.