Payroll | Firm admitted to underpaying hundreds of workers

When a worker goes into the office, they expect to be paid for the work that they have done so that they can pay the bills and splurge on extra luxuries that they can afford.

Yet, Emirates Leisure Retail, a major hospitality company which forms the food and leisure arm of the Emirates Group and operates brands such as Costa Coffee, Pret, Heineken Giraffe and Hudsons Coffee in airports based in Australia, UAE, Singapore and New Zealand, has admitted to ‘unintentionally’ underpaying hundreds of its workers.

According to a report published by the Daily Mail, both current and former staff under the employment of Emirates Leisure Retail recently received an email stating that the company had noticed an error in its penalty rates.

Whilst the average rate of underpay is currently unknown, one anonymous former staff member told the press that she was ‘fuming’ after she calculated that her compensation may total as much as (£11,659.05) $15,000 (Australian dollars).