Australia’s largest speciality fashion retailer has faced a A$29,000 (US$18,875) fine for underpaying its workers for long service leave. 
Mosaic Brands, which has 1,110 stores nationally, including Millers, Rivers, Katies, Rockmans and Noni B, pleaded guilty to 324 offences in Downing Centre Local Court. The court issued the fine on Monday. 
This is the record number of offences prosecuted simultaneously in New South Wales for long service leave underpayments. 
In the Downing Centre Local Criminal Court on Monday, the Magistrate found that systemic underpayments of long service leave to 223 workers were not deliberate as they arose from payroll system errors.
However, the magistrate concluded that it is impossible not to impose any penalty because the offences were too serious and widespread. …