Ombudsman investigates $650,000 farm wage underpayments

Updated October 14 2016 - 9:44am, first published October 13 2016 - 9:57pm
INVESTIGATION: The Fair Work Ombudsman says hundreds of workers picking mushrooms have been allegedly short-changed almost $650,000.
INVESTIGATION: The Fair Work Ombudsman says hundreds of workers picking mushrooms have been allegedly short-changed almost $650,000.

A NATIONAL inquiry into workplace practices in the horticulture industry has uncovered the alleged underpayment of hundreds of pickers on a Queensland mushroom farm says the Fair Work Ombudsman.

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