Quote Originally Posted by Frodo View Post
Wow, this turned into some nonsense. Payscales are not hard to work out, underpaying someone involves effort more than stupidity or accident.

The list of acts by some of these businesses includes coercing migrant workers to repay franchisees back in cash as tax withheld and threatening deportation if they spoke up. (company was informed of act multiple times but failed to act until fair work raided offices), straight up wage theft where a huge companies just inform staff to underpays people on purpose for as long as possible until they are caught (Woolies) or they have CEO's giving out bonuses for creative ways to remove entitlements from Enterprise Agreements as well as forcing delegates to agree to lower wages by threat (Grill'd). None of them were accidents, they all got caught and now the workers will get a percentage of the money owed to them repaid and the company will laugh it off as a failed ploy.

That's 3 big name companies that took years to bring to justice. Imagine how many more are just smarter at getting away with it?

But yeah, keep blaming the little guy for wanting to be paid appropriately and feeling sorry for this huge companies with 100s payroll workers checking through payroll paperwork to make sure it "complies" with a fairly simple to understand set of regulations.
simple to work out yet needing 100's of payroll officers to enforce? So which is it?
the 3 examples are 3 completely different circumstances.
1st sounds like some illegal shit and id have the perpetrators fired into the sun on a rocket ASAP. no problems.
ill give Woolies the benefit of the doubt. regardless of what people on here think i can understand their side of the story. Sometimes the dog really does eat your homework.
The 3rd one is a case of a company exploiting a situation. not illegal activity. you guys need to point that distinction out because its important.
the screaming pollies can close that loophole tomorrow if they wanted. but dont hate the player, hate the game on that one.
if the Grill'd blokes are found to be doing something illegal, stick them in the rocket with example number 1.

Also, just as an aside, those Grill'd dudes seem like a couple of proper assholes given all their behind the scenes bitching at each other over the years. both richer than anyone needs to be but they are petty as all **** about who deserved more dap.
assholes.

also, every single worker in this country has the ability to check every single week if they are being paid correctly. its the law to make sure they have payslips. if they are worried they can check their award or seek help online in govt departments. if they are getting dudded, speak up because thats how these things get solved. if its a legit mistake like Woolies/Bunnings etc claim, then bad PR will cost them more than they are saving on wages.