The Federal Court of Australia upheld the Fair Work Ombudsman’s prosecution of a Canberra Massage Parlour for multiple contraventions of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) for underpayments, cash backs, subjecting workers to coercion, race discrimination, unauthorised deductions, and record keeping breaches. The Court found the Massage Parlour deliberately recruited workers from the Philippines to exploit them. The Fair Work Ombudsman welcomed the Court’s recent imposition of significant total penalties, which have been the third highest issued in the regulator’s history.

Michael Seck and Bronwyn Byrnes appeared for the applicant, the Fair Work Ombudsman.

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