Thursday, 20 February 2020
Constituency questions
Ringwood electorate
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Ringwood electorate
Mr HALSE (Ringwood) (11:50): (1919) My question is to the Attorney-General. We recently saw high-profile celebrity chef and restaurant chain owner George Calombaris embroiled in a large-scale wage theft scandal, and his Jimmy Grants restaurant in Ringwood has had to close. Recently an article in the Maroondah Leader cited a study from Industry Super Australia that ranked Ringwood as one of the worst-affected electorates in Victoria for wage theft, with more than 900 workers owed their share of a missing $16.1 million. You can bet that if the situation was reversed and those 900-plus workers breached their employment contracts to the tune of $16.1 million we would call it what it is: theft. What information can the Attorney-General provide to the workers in my electorate on what the government is doing to bring forward new legislation to stop wage theft?