Mantle Group Hospitality — Local services in Brisbane City

The Fair Work Commission (FWC), led by president Justice Adam Hatcher, found that the group’s panel of four staff that would set rates for around 700 employees across 15 Mantle venues were in fact venue managers and one employee not even covered by the agreement.

As per the deal, hundreds of casuals “voluntarily” gave up weekend and evening penalty rates, which continued the operator’s practice of not paying penalty rates that had reputedly been going on for decades.

A major union deal signed in May saw the group agree to resume paying penalty rates.

But this week, before a full bench of the Federal Court, Mantle’s defence argued that FWC was biased in its ruling, which subsequently prompted the highly unusual event of the group’s HR manager Darren Latham being referred to police for investigation.

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