'I am destroyed': Couple lodges court claim for almost $500k in unpaid wages

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Bill and Jackie Lakovski say they worked 60 hours a week each — often overnight — with no penalty rates or superannuation for a cleaning company that provides services for a Melbourne council.

Often, Mrs Lakovksi said, the couple would work as a team to finish the tasks — effectively working for $10 an hour each."What hurt most was just watching my mum go downhill," Jimmy Lakovski said.His sister, Marija, is furious at their treatment."They've worked weekends, public holidays … they basically worked more than they were at home."The ABC has not received a response from the cleaning contractor they worked for, AECS, nor its parent company, Makkim Pty Ltd.

Hume City Council is one of them, which is why the Lakovskis approached it for help in May last year. The ABC asked Mr Isola why the council had not investigated the concerns raised by the Lakovskis about its cleaning contractor."…[W]e are not privy to individual employee terms and conditions and nor should we have to be."But the Australian Council of Trade Unions secretary Sally McManus said the council could not wipe its hands of the matter.

 

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Nah. These people who worked 10hour overnight shifts of hard labour just didn't have a go, so they didn't deserve to get a go. That's how this works right?

Their name sounds foreign. Are they from the foreign white Russian-Christian community of Australians?

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