Posts tagged "corporate wage theft"

Businesses found to have severely underpaid workers could face fines in excess of $4 million, according to a plan floated by the federal government as it coordinates its next slate of industrial relations reforms.

Coles and Woolworths are set to face a seven-week-long Federal Court case over employee underpayments after a judge ordered that four separate cases could be heard as one.

What started as a few underpayment cases revealed by the Australian media in 2015 has turned into an epidemic of wage theft.

The Vic government’s decision to introduce a ‘wage watchdog’, in addition to the existing Fair Work Ombudsman, is poorly-timed.

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.

Wesfarmers has become embroiled in another wage theft scandal, after revealing staff at department store Target have been cheated for $9 million.

The average Woolworths supermarket stocks more than 20,000 different products, yet the company has had problems tracking employee entitlements.