A Dunedin convenience store owner has been ordered to pay $18,000 in penalties, and its director to personally pay a further $9,000 in penalties for negligent record keeping and holiday pay breaches.
The penalties are in addition to $3,000 of infringement fees paid earlier for record keeping failures and more than $6,000 owed to five workers in unpaid holiday entitlements.
The Employment Relations Authority (ERA) has ordered Satyam Ltd, to pay the $18,000 worth of penalties, and its director, Sunilkumar Dalpatbhai Mistry, to personally pay the $9000 in penalties.
Satyam Ltd ceased trading from August 2018.
Mistry is currently listed as the director and shareholder of three other companies that are trading as convenience stores: A1 Trade Limited, Harinaman Limited and Haricharan Limited, which trades as the Rendezvous dairy.