HR Leader
Michael William Kemp, owner of Kemp Law, was found to have seriously breached his legal obligations by failing to make $291,572 in compulsory superannuation contributions for six employees.
One of the employees was robbed of $37,143 in superannuation contributions during the three years he worked for Kemp Law.
Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal’s Justice Paul Freeburn said the offending was more serious than tax offences because the entitlements were the “property of the employees”.
“The consequence is that, by failing to remit those funds, the legal practitioner/employer is, in effect, converting the money that ought properly go to the credit of the employees into funds available for the use of the practice,” Justice Freeburn said in his written reasons.
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