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Newshound
14-03-2008, 06:18 PM
The Federal Magistrates' Court in Perth has made an example of West Australian building company Hanssen, imposing the largest ever fine for breaching the Workplace Relations Act in a "deliberate exploitation'' of Filipino and Irish migrant workers. "

You can read more detail on the perthnow site (http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,23362138-2761,00.html)

Judging by this article (http://workers.labor.net.au/310/news1_hans.html) on Workers Online the same employer has a few other issues!
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