How researchers are using data science to map wage theft Legal Professor John Howe 11 February 2021 What started as a few underpayment cases revealed by the Australian media in 2015 has turned into an epidemic of wage theft.
Why Coles and Target won’t be the last big businesses with wage theft scandals Legal Matthew Elmas 21 February 2020 New wage theft scandals are unlikely to be the last, as corporate Australia reckons with one of the worst worker exploitation scandals in recent memory.
Target reveals $9 million in staff underpayments in latest wage theft scandal at Wesfarmers Industrial Relations Matthew Elmas 19 February 2020 Wesfarmers has become embroiled in another wage theft scandal, after revealing staff at department store Target have been cheated for $9 million.
Playing the ‘complexity’ card: Why corporates can’t blame awards for wage theft People The Conversation 12 November 2019 The average Woolworths supermarket stocks more than 20,000 different products, yet the company has had problems tracking employee entitlements.
Shocked, but not surprised: Underpayment has become a culturally accepted part of business Finance The Conversation 6 August 2019 In recent years there have been large-scale cases of underpayment involving household names such as Caltex, 7-Eleven and Pizza Hut and Domino's Pizza.