Why Coles and Target won’t be the last big businesses with wage theft scandals Legal Matthew Elmas 21 February 2020 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.
Target reveals $9 million in staff underpayments in latest wage theft scandal at Wesfarmers Industrial Relations Matthew Elmas 19 February 2020 Wesfarmers has become embroiled in another wage theft scandal, after revealing staff at department store Target have been cheated for $9 million.
Playing the ‘complexity’ card: Why corporates can’t blame awards for wage theft People The Conversation 12 November 2019 The average Woolworths supermarket stocks more than 20,000 different products, yet the company has had problems tracking employee entitlements.
Accounting software does not underpay staff — humans do Finance Stacey Price 31 October 2019 From Woolworths to Rockpool, a large number of underpayment cases pinning the blame on payroll issues have been making media headlines.
How the High Court’s decision on pieceworker rights will affect Aussie farmers Agribusiness Priscilla Pho 20 September 2019 Underpaid pieceworkers could be compensated according to minimum hourly award rates, following an appeal by the Fair Work Ombudsman.
