The Fair Work Ombudsman has found the franchisee of a Pizza Hut outlet in Newcastle underpaid 24 employees almost $20,000.
The casual employees of the Hunter Street store were underpaid a total of $19,762 between November 2015 and May 2016.
Two international students from Pakistan and Kenya were among those underpaid, while the majority of the employees were young people aged between 16 and 20.
Fair Work says the store operator was running his first business since immigrating from India, and was not fully aware of his obligations under Australia’s workplace laws.
He has since started rectifying the underpayments and is taking a range of steps to ensure future compliance.
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