Check this moron out. Underpaid staff to the tune of nearly 8 million and claims it was a shock when he found out. Now he wants to be a "voice for change" in the industry. More like desperately trying to salvage his tarnished reputation. Weapons grade crapola.

www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07-31/george-calombaris-breaks-his-silence-about-underpaying-staff/11368212

He doesn't want to be "the voice for change", the courts ruled he has to, part of his punishment.

Sleazy weasel crying poor.

Sell some houses from his portfolio first and repay his staff in FULL before we can believe a word of him again.

Don't believe everything you read on social media

Everyone's full of schit when it suits them even you

The sob story would have a little credibility if they actually overpaid someone, but I don't see that headline coming up anytime soon.

Mark _australia said..
The court never told him anything according to the article, it didn't go to court.

The Fair Work Ombudsman made an agreement with the company regarding a contrition payment (whatever that is,flash word for fine?) and it is court enforceable. In other words he has to abide by it or else it might be a court matter.

Bit harsh to have a crack if his company did indeed discover the underpay themselves, and he seems very genuine.

Gotta agree with you there.... I reckon some are being a bit quick to climb the soap boxes to get on the bandwagons....

Facts are - his company stuffed up, his company realised they stuffed up. His company went to fair work and told them they stuffed up. His company worked with Fair Work to rectify the short payments and made additional payments.

He is the head of the company and has taken full responsibility.

Not good, and should not have happened. He is paying the consequences now though public backlash. But I run a business and can see how easy it would be for a growing company to make mistakes. Especially if they haven't resourced the support in that area (their fault for sure).

At least they found out the problem and rectified it themselves. It's not like they were caught out deliberately shafting employees.

Frankly I reckon they should be applauded for doing the right thing and set as an example of what businesses should do when they stuff up. I'm sure there are plenty who would have just quietly carried on.

^^^^^ So true!!!!

Say what you want about hospitality but you cant argue that you have a terrible job at any village town boat wagon city at any morning midday night of any day or night on any country in world.

I have a good friend whose getting on a bit and she was a bit upset about being a 40 yr old cook and i explained if she was a neuroscientist she would have stuff all work available to her on this little island. That perked her up a bit.

Grass is always greener. Ive always enjoyed all of my jobs. Hospitality always seemed to be the most social. Its the people.

We talking accor? mantra etc?

Hospitality can be very fun. Unlike concreteing. Most fun experience concreteing is when this old digger got on the screed and his balls were hanging so low out of his footy shorts they were dragging in the concrete leaveing a little trail. Eventually they built up enough crust he didnt even realise it. It was akin to a snowball being rolled down a hill in a charlie brown comic. Just kept getting bigger and bigger.

But yeah hospo managers tend to be whoever the owner/gms fancieing that month

Any coed environment is so much better to work in. Ill take a paycut just for that alone

Agree Main, every story has two sides. As employees we've all been slack or have screwed while being clocked on. Don't see many, if any, employees offering a reduction in take home pay because we were half assed or didn't have our eyes on the ball all day, every day.

As an employer you put a lot of trust in staff to do the right thing & sometimes this doesn't happen. Hopefully when sh!t happens experience, margin or insurance may cover you. George loves food, cooking etc... & that would be his focus. I doubt he was across every last detail of his financials other than regular reports. At least he's had the balls to stand up & say my business, my issue. Having said all that, one cardinal rule of running a business is never f#*k up staff pay.

Hang on, he did find the problem and then alerted the commission. He wasn't caught ripping off people, he basically said , I've made an error and I need to pay more to my staff.
Anyone got something extra by mistake and not told the supplier

Have worked in a few 5 star restaurants in Aussie and whilst living/traveling over seas, all were good times, money was ok, tips where massive OS, more than the wage. Jobs are what you make them, no matter what the occupation.

^^^ Yeah and the Tribe seems generally in support of him.

Cool will there be a thread about Love Island soon too?

"Right now there's [sic] 642 team members..."

Should (just) be able to handle that many with a slick spreadsheet, really.