A Taiwanese coffee brand has been fined almost half a million dollars for its extraordinary exploitation of visa workers through purported internships and 70-hour work weeks.
The Federal Court issued $475,200 in penalties against 85 Degrees Coffee for paying eight overseas workers less than a third of the award minimum between 2016 and 2017, with each worker underpaid an average of almost $54,000.
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