Issue No 57 | 09 June 2000 | |
NewsSecurity Guard Wins $100,000 in Back PayBy Andrew Casey
A Brisbane security guard member of the Liquor, Hospitality and Miscellaneous Workers Union, Stephen Fennamore, has just picked up an extraordinary record payment of almost $100,000 in back pay following an extended court case.
Mr Fennamore from Laidley - west of Brisbane - had been battling to get four years back pay for underpayments when he asked his union to step in and help. " The $100,000 is like a lottery windfall, except Stephen Fennamore had earned this money and it had been taken out of his pocket by the boss, LHMU Queensland research officer, John Martin, said today. The Brisbane case is an important win for the union. " This is an industry where members often work in isolation, records can be hard to obtain so there is a constant battle to ensure people are paid correctly. " Enforcing award compliance in the security industry is not an easy affair," John Martin said. Thomas Ronald Sugden, a director of WASP Security Services Pty Ltd was found guilty of failing to pay wages due under the Security Industry ( Contractors) [State] Award. Sugden was fined $2,500 plus court costs and ordered to pay $99,341.28 backpay for an underpayment which occurred between May 1995 and 1999. " As far as our union has been able to determine this is a record for an individual underpayment claim in Queensland and represents almost $25,000 a year for four years."
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