Posts tagged "wage theft penalties"

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.

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

Small businesses that underpay workers could be hit with 50% higher civil penalties, under the federal government’s industrial relations reform bill.