Xiao Teng was supporting her partner who was undergoing chemotherapy when cleaning company Grouped Property Services Pty Ltd stopped paying her.
Her colleague Freddy Herrera, an engineering student from Colombia, worked for GPS for five hours a day, seven days a week and “was grossly underpaid throughout his employment”, according to Federal Court judge Anna Katzmann.
Mariana de Queiroz, meanwhile, was “struggling with bills and paying rent” and said that GPS’ failure to pay her a month’s wages and accrued annual leave imposed “a big financial and emotional burden” on her and her family.
These are three of the 51 employees of the comp…
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