Din Tai Fung Breach of Labour Law in Australia

[Whatevah]

@foc

@comfy123

Yes but it was a Taiwanese chain

Yes it’s a Taiwan chain but typically the Taiwanese company licenses a local company to actually operate the restaurants. On the face of it, it is not at all clear that the operators were Taiwanese or even Taiwanese-Australians. They could be. We don’t know.

The link in the first post shows that Australia has a lot of powerful tools to deal with cases like this. Taiwan could learn a lot. As has been noted, it may all be nothing since these companies went into liquidation.

I doubt the Taiwanese licensor can be held liable for failing to supervise their franchisees. They should police them just to protect their valuable brand. But this kind of problem is common.

I know dozens of people working illegally in Australia. It’s more widespread than most think and is in no way limited tot his one company. If anything they may be under more scrutiny because of stereotypes.

[Explant]

Illegal labor? Australia. Never!

Always nice to see it cracked down on. But it’s still a huge issue and seems somewhat selective, or at least random. Can’t imagine how much of the labor industry there is above board…

[justintaiwan]

Outside of hospitality it’s pretty much all above board.

It’s a huge problem in the hospitality industry though where I would be surprised if the majority is above board.
Even those that appear above board aren’t. McDonald’s has a court case against it for its labour practices and it’s EBA was tossed.