A Pakistani student who worked in security at this year's Australian Tennis Open is taking the companies he worked for to court, claiming they paid him "a slave's wage".

Faisal Durrani, 23, says he worked for 150 hours at this year's Australian Open in Melbourne, but his reward was a measly $200 - the equivalent of a $1.26 an hour.

A number of security contractors who worked at the Australian Open in January are being taken to court over an alleged labour rort.

Mr Durrani's lawyer, Andrew Weinmann, told ABC radio's The World Today that it is one of the most brazen cases he has come across.

"Well one of the difficulties with this case is that we've got two organisations, each of which is blaming the other for the failure to pay our client's wages," he said.

"He's made a number of attempts to recover his money, since then we've made a number of attempts on his behalf, but so far six months later he's only go $200 for the work he did.