Posts tagged "underpayments scandal"

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.

The average Woolworths supermarket stocks more than 20,000 different products, yet the company has had problems tracking employee entitlements.

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

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?

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

  Claims to state and federal inquiries into franchising in 2008 and 2010 that rogue behaviour by franchisors was widespread have not been …