Imagine working for a year and only being paid 10 weeks' pay. This is what happened to a migrant worker at Australia's largest celery farm.
What's next?Australia's largest celery producer has been fined more than $150,000 after "deliberately" underpaying the migrant workers who planted and picked the popular vegetable.
"This is ... at the extreme end of what we see," Fair Work Ombudsman Anna Booth told ABC Victorian Country Hour following the court proceeding."To think that we're going to the supermarket, buying our celery, paying a decent price for it, and that workers who are picking it, packing it, cutting it are just not being paid at all ... must have been so frightened.
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