Fair Work has referred the hospitality giant executive to the AFP for allegedly lying about an agreement that deprived hundreds of workers of penalty rates.
The human resources chief for a major Queensland hospitality group has refused to answer questions about a controversial agreement that scrapped penalty rates, citing fears of criminal prosecution.
The workplace tribunal has raised extraordinary concerns that one of Queensland’s biggest hospitality groups may have lied to get approval of an agreement that allowed its workforce to opt out of all their penalty rates.
The United Workers Union has launched legal action to overturn a controversial agreement struck by Mantle that allows workers to waive away all their penalty rates.
The hospitality union is considering its legal options over a controversial agreement that allows workers to waive away their penalty rates to work extra hours.