The company liquidated, the outlets closed, and the workers are still owed $125,241
Fifty-three workers are still waiting for their money. The company that owed it to them no longer exists.
The Federal Circuit and Family Court has penalised the sole director of a Sydney labour hire company $8,415 after he admitted his involvement in the company's failure to comply with a Fair Work compliance notice - essentially, a formal order to back-pay underpaid workers.
The compliance notice required NLHR Management Pty Ltd to pay $127,467 to dozens of workers supplied to two Nara Lounge restaurant-and-shisha-lounge outlets at Hurstville and Pendle Hill in Sydney. The workers, who included visa holders and young workers, were employed at the outlets between 2022 and 2024.
The notice was never satisfied.
NLHR Management went into liquidation. Both outlets closed. And $125,241, plus superannuation, remains outstanding for 53 of those workers. Individual amounts owed range from $60 to $10,459.
Fair Work Inspectors visited the Hurstville outlet as part of a proactive auditing campaign and opened an investigation. In December 2024, an inspector issued the compliance notice after forming a belief that workers had been underpaid minimum wages for ordinary hours, penalty rates for weekend and public holiday work, and annual leave entitlements owed under the Restaurant Industry Award 2020 and the National Employment Standards in the Fair Work Act.
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