Company formerly known as Polytrade fined more than $375,000 in the federal court
Refugees and asylum seekers employed to sort rubbish were systematically exploited and underpaid by one of the biggest recycling organisations inA recycling company formerly known as Polytrade, a linked subsidiary, and its owners, were fined more than $375,000 in the federal court this month, over what a judge described as “obnoxious conduct” and a “cavalier disregard” for the law, grossly underpaying migrant workers who spoke little English and were vulnerable to exploitation.
. At worst, it involved a deliberate and cavalier disregard of important award safety net obligations.” Snaden said the total fines imposed, while significant, were warranted against Polytrade, given the “scale and audacity of its transgressions”.
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