Popular dumpling chain Din Tai Fung and two senior managers have been fined over $4 million for a calculated scheme to rob employees of their wages. The chain was found to have underpaid workers and created false records to conceal the wrongdoing.
Popular dumpling chain Din Tai Fung and two of its senior managers have been slapped with fines worth more than $4 million, with the Federal Court finding a “calculated scheme to rob employees of their hard-earned wages” had occurred.
One showed a real reflection of wages and hours while the other had “false pay slips, timesheets, payroll journals and pay run summaries”.Ms Katzmann described the company’s conduct as “deceitful and unscrupulous” and noted that staff were “particularly vulnerable to exploitation”. The court heard evidence that the employers deliberately hired visa holders rather than Australian citizens or permanent residents in order to avoid their business practices coming to the attention of the authorities.While only 17 employees were highlighted in the case, Justice Katzmann said it was likely to have impacted the broader workforce back in 2018.
“The FWO agrees with this characterisation of the respondents’ conduct. Serious consequences await any business found to be engaging in such calculated and systemic conduct such as the type uncovered in this matter.”However, the two companies that previously ran Din Tai Fung went into liquidation before the case was heard and the current restaurants are now run by new entities.
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