Posts tagged "underpayment scandals"

Australia’s industrial system is complex, but that excuse is not going to assist with any run-in with the Fair Work Ombudsman if you underpay staff.

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

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.

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.