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Former Gisborne crane hire company, Teds Crane Hire, has been penalised $18,700 for failing to backpay entitlements to aworker employed between April 2018 and August 2020.

The Federal Circuit and Family Court has imposed the penalty following failure to act on acompliance notice.

The court has also ordered the company to take the steps required by the compliance notice, which includes calculating and back-paying the worker’s outstanding entitlements in full, plus interest. AFair Work Inspector issued a Compliance Notice to Teds Crane Hire

Pty Ltd in March 2021 after contact with the worker.

The inspector believed the worker was not paid accrued but untaken annual leave entitlements and payment-in-lieuof-notice-of-termination entitlements owed under the Building and Construction General On-site Award 2010 and the Fair Work Act’s National Employment Standards.

In imposing the penalty, Judge Catherine Symons found that there was aneed to deter other employers “from simply ignoring acompliance notice, as (Teds Crane Hire) did in this case.”