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Adrian Black

Red Rooster outlet fined $5.5k in child labour case

The Wodonga Red Rooster franchise has pleaded guilty to 29 charges of breaching child labour laws. (Adrian Black/AAP PHOTOS)

A fast food franchise in the border town of Wodonga has been fined over multiple child labour breaches but will escape conviction after pleading guilty.

Melbourne Magistrates Court ordered Wodonga Food Pty Ltd, which operated the Wodonga Red Rooster outlet near the Victoria-NSW border, to pay a fine of $5500 and $4000 in court costs in relation to 29 charges involving 10 children under 15, across 169 occasions in 2022. 

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