Federal Court case on exploitation of massage workers

[Plumage]

Some pretty serious charges being heard at the moment—$600,00 in unpaid wages, underpayment, unrecorded 'wage' contibutions to prop up profits, deportation threats, death threats. The weird thing for me is this is being heard as a breach of the Fair Work Act rather than as a criminal case. (But maybe criminal charges have been / will be brought separately?)

Boss allegedly threatened to have employees' families killed if they spoke up about unfair work conditions

The former owner of a Canberra massage business denies he did anything wrong after being accused of threatening to have the families of his employees killed if they spoke up about alleged unfair working conditions.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Plumage]

maybe criminal charges have been / will be brought separately?

Apparently not. Google turned up this article from the Sydney Morning Herald. It's behind a paywall, but note the underlined bit in the search results:

 

[rufbear]

Another massage business has taken over the space previously occupied by Foot & Thai. They have been coping abuse from clients who have been expecting a rub & tug, and from clients wanting to use old F&T gift vouchers.

Dear valued customers,

We the Reborn Thai Massage team would like to once again clarify that we are NOT Foot & Thai Therapeutic Massage. We are instead a different business entirely, with different owners and different management.

As a good will gesture, we have been offering 20% off our prices when you bring your Foot & Thai Gift Vouchers in, because we understand how upsetting and disappointing the sudden closure of Foot & Thai was, and we want to do what we can despite this not being our obligation.

Due to the backlash we have received from people assuming we are the same business as Foot & Thai because we partially honor the vouchers, as of 1st January 2021 we will cease to offer this deal and will no longer be accepting Foot & Thai Gift Vouchers for 20% off our prices.

Thank you for your kind understanding and support.

Kind regards,

Reborn Thai Team

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