Third of outlets will audit wages after employees underpaid by $258,000 and companies fined by Federal Court
The pizza chain La Porchetta will self-audit employees' pay at a third of its outlets after two Melbourne franchises were found to have underpaid some of their workers.
La Porchetta has agreed with the Fair Work Ombudsman to a three-year self-audit of wages at 24 of its 65 stores after the Federal Court found that 111 employees, mostly teenagers, including one aged 13, had been underpaid a total of $258,000 at franchises in Pakenham and Berwick between 2009 and 2012.
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