Posts tagged "underpayment of workers"

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 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.

A landmark study has revealed the underpayment of migrant workers is widespread in Australia, and the vast majority don't report it.

The former manager of an Oliver Brown chocolate outlet at Surfers Paradise has been penalised more than $27,000 after employees were underpa…