Red Rooster Outlet Fined $5.5K in Child Labour Case

Published on February 9, 2024

A fast food franchise in the border town of Wodonga has been fined over multiple child labour breaches but will escape conviction after pleading guilty. Melbourne Magistrates Court ordered Wodonga Food Pty Ltd, which operated the Wodonga Red Rooster outlet near the Victoria-NSW border, to pay a fine of $5,500 (US$3,579) and $4,000 (US$2,603) in court costs in relation to 29 charges involving 10 children under 15, across 169 occasions in 2022. The offences had been rolled up from an initial 355 charges. An investigation by Victoria’s child employment watchdog uncovered instances of employing a child under 15 for shifts for longer than three hours or past 9pm, failing to provide supervision from an adult with a valid Working With Children clearance and employing a child without a permit....

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