Big fines over picker pay

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A WOORINEN fruit farmer has been hit with $144,000 in penalties for deliberately underpaying two Malaysian fruit pickers on his stone fruit farm and using false ­records in an attempt to cover it up. The Federal Circuit Court levied a $120,000 fine against Zucco Farming Pty Ltd this week with the company’s sole director and […]

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