A South Australian transport company has been forced to back pay almost $150,000 in penalty rates to 26 workers, it was reported today.
A random audit as part of the Fair Work Ombudsman's National Road Transport Industry Campaign found that the organisation had failed to pay some staff, mostly casual drivers and yard hands, penalty rates for weekend and public holiday work between March 2006 and January 2009.
The Fair Work Ombudsman said in a statement that it accepted the problem was due to ignorance rather than a deliberate failure to comply with the legislation.
The company has until late this year to make the back payments and write to affected current and former staff apologising for the error.
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