{"id":280606,"date":"2020-10-12T12:40:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T02:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/?p=280606"},"modified":"2020-10-13T19:38:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-13T09:38:55","slug":"legal-action-over-farm-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southburnett.com.au\/news2\/2020\/10\/12\/legal-action-over-farm-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Action Over Farm Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"

October 12, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Maclagan dairy farmer has been taken to court by the Fair Work Ombudsman after allegations he failed to pay a casual backpacker correctly.<\/p>\n

The Fair Work Ombudsman began legal action against the farmer recently in the Federal Circuit Court.<\/p>\n

The regulator began investigations after receiving a request for assistance from a worker, a working holiday visa-holder from France, who had been employed on a casual basis to do general farm work, house cleaning and to milk and feed cows.<\/p>\n

An inspector issued a Compliance Notice to the farmer in February after forming a belief he had failed to pay the employee correctly for work he had performed between August and November, 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The inspector believed the employee had been underpaid casual minimum rates and was not paid penalty rates for public holiday work in accordance with the\u00a0Pastoral Award 2010.<\/p>\n

The FWO alleges the farmer failed to comply with this Compliance Notice which required him to calculate and back-pay the worker\u2019s entitlements.<\/p>\n

It also alleges that farmer breached workplace laws by failing to issue pay slips to the employee and failing to keep records of the employee\u2019s hours of work.<\/p>\n

The FWO says it made several attempts to secure voluntary compliance before beginning legal action.<\/p>\n

A directions hearing has been listed in the Federal Circuit Court in Brisbane on November 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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