Broadcast Operations Group - Underpayment of Staff

Underpayment of Staff

In September 2009, Broadcast Operations was found to have underpaid a journalist and has been ordered to make a $10,000 backpayment.

The journalist, who was studying communications at a Gold Coast University, worked part-time over a two-year period in the newsroom for Tweed Heads radio stations 97AM/103.5FM and 104.1FM was graded as a cadet.

The Fair Work Ombudsman found that the Journalist was performing tasks that would normally be given to a Grade 1, Band 1 journalist under the Commercial Radio Journalists Award.

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