Posts tagged "Migrant Workers’ Taskforce"

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 government’s threat of jail for bosses engaging in wage theft may be a PR exercise designed to camouflage the blow of big hits to come for workers.

Criminal penalties for serious exploitation of migrant workers are on the way after the government accepted a recommendation to take action.