In the latest in a long list of thefts from Australian workers, BHP 'The Big Australian' has admitted it stole $430 million from more than 30,000 members of its workforce over a ten year period. This comes on top of other big corporations such as Woolworths and Coles among others, who have admitted to stealing hundreds of millions from their employees. These thefts have not been merely "minor clerical errors" on the part of big and small Businesses, but well orchestrated thievery, often from poorly paid employees. With Labor governments in control federally and every state except Tasmania, its time to stand up for the worker, the people Labor supposedly represents, and enact laws that see those responsible for these crimes, spend time in jail, then maybe they will think twice.

In 2021/22 the Fair Work Ombudsman estimated Australian employees were being fleeced of $1.35 billion annually by wage thieving employers!

Yep righto.
I don't know about in BHP Billiton's case, but I know that Coles and Woolies is like a well oiled machine to rob their own customers, at least pay your workers properly. Retail has got such a huge markup as it is, and they can't even barely have staff on registers anymore, it's a joke. Gotta pay $1 if I want a bloody bag for my stuff.

There's been a lot of this going on too, people getting rich robbing the handicapped because the government will cough up.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-02/federal-gov-to-make-inflated-prices-for-ndis-services-illegal/102427116

And they all constantly carry on with all this virtue-signalling crap.
- It's all about everyone robbing everyone else.

Hi AC,

In the BHP case they were purposely deducting public holidays from annual leave entitlements. They had their computer programs rigged to do that automatically. In the case of the supermarkets they were claiming pimply faced 17 year old kids were "managers" you know what I mean; The store chief would say; "Kid, you are the new Fruit and Veggie Manager, you get to pick out the rotten apples unsupervised, and you get a bigger mop and bucket!...by the way, we expect you to stay back until the jobs done, without any extra pay...GOD we're paying you 14 bucks an hour as it is!"

people getting rich robbing the handicapped because the government will cough up.
Armchair Critic,
Wrong ! It's Bureaucrat Public Servants not doing their job that facilitates such corruption & waste !

What Paul forgets to mention is that the underpayment was picked up and reported by BHP who also intends to compensate everyone without the input of any of the idiotic unions.

PS The "underpayment" by Coles and Woolies was engineered by the unions who happily signed away workers' entitlements for donations by the supermarkets to the corrupt unions.

So spare us the faux outrage.