PHOTO: DAVID WALKER/STUFF Hardeep Singh, pictured outside Woolston Super Liquor, owned by his friend Harjit Singh, after an aggravated robbery in 2015.
Bottle store staff are among the country’s most exploited workers – and liquor licensing authorities are partly to blame.
That is the message from workplace watchdog the Labour Inspectorate, as it emerges yet another liquor store tycoon has come under scrutiny for underpaying staff.
Last week Super Liquor Holdings terminated its contracts with Nekita Enterprises Ltd, run by Harjit and Shereen Singh, after a Labour Inspectorate investigation found the company had paid several staff less than the minimum wage, while planning a multimillion-dollar Christchurch mansion. Super Liquor will strip its branding from their 15 stores in Christchurch, Methven Ashburton.
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