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Fair Work alleges Victorian carpenter underpaid young workers and threatened to sack an apprentice for taking personal leave.
A Victorian carpenter is being taken to court for allegedly threatening to sack a teenage apprentice if he took sick leave. Caleb Geoffrey Stubbs - a sole trader who operates CS Carpentry in Geelong - is also accused of underpaying the apprentice and another young casual worker and failing to cooperate with Fair Work's attempts to investigate the claims. The Fair Work Ombudsman launched the investigation after receiving requests for help from the two 18-year-olds who were employed by Stubbs in 2022 and 2023.
One was employed as an apprentice carpenter between November 2022 and January 2023. and the other as a casual construction worker for a week in November 2022. According to Fair Work, on the morning of January 19, 2023, the apprentice messaged his employer on Snapchat stating he was unwell and wouldn't be able to work that day. It's then that Fair Work alleges Stubbs threatened to not pay the apprentice for a week if he didn't come to work and to terminate his employment if he took personal leave in the future.
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A Victorian carpenter is being taken to court for allegedly threatening to sack a teenage apprentice if he took sick leave. Caleb Geoffrey Stubbs - a sole trader who operates CS Carpentry in Geelong - is also accused of underpaying the apprentice and another young casual worker and failing to cooperate with Fair Work's attempts to investigate the claims. The Fair Work Ombudsman launched the investigation after receiving requests for help from the two 18-year-olds who were employed by Stubbs in 2022 and 2023.
One was employed as an apprentice carpenter between November 2022 and January 2023. and the other as a casual construction worker for a week in November 2022. According to Fair Work, on the morning of January 19, 2023, the apprentice messaged his employer on Snapchat stating he was unwell and wouldn't be able to work that day. It's then that Fair Work alleges Stubbs threatened to not pay the apprentice for a week if he didn't come to work and to terminate his employment if he took personal leave in the future.
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