PROFESSIONAL Pharmacists Australia has warned pharmacy owners that it will take swift action if it's found that employee pharmacists are not being paid their correct entitlements.
Matt Harris, the union group's national campaign director, said there had been a "spike in the number of cases of underpayment of wages, and even a failure to pay wages at all".
He confirmed in one case the union has filed proceedings to recover up to $20,000 in unpaid entitlements on behalf of a pharmacist who had worked at a Melbourne CBD pharmacy for more than four years.
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