Posts tagged "underpaid"

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 collapse of George Calombaris' restaurant empire has thrown the future of several other business operators into the air as the fallout from the wage theft scandal spreads across Melbourne.

From Woolworths to Rockpool, a large number of underpayment cases pinning the blame on payroll issues have been making media headlines.

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.

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.

With all the George Calombaris news, you have to ask: are we all guilty of underpaying? Not just in business, but as customers?

Recent reports relating to unpaid internships are indicative of the pressures on young people entering the workplace to gain industry experience.

The Fair Work Ombudsman is conducting a raid through popular Melbourne dining strip Degraves Street after receiving an influx of anonymous tip-offs.

A number of restaurants and cafes along one of Melbourne's most iconic laneways — Degraves Street — have been accused of underpaying staff.

Education Minister Simon Birmingham encourages families to shop around for cheap childcare, so many workers have to cut rates to attract families.

A plumbing business in Victoria has been penalised $100,000, and the business operator fined $21,5000, for underpaying a worker thousands of…