Adero Law filed a class action against Woolworths and Big W in November 2019 on behalf of salaried supermarket employees. The class action claims that compensation and penalties should be paid to class members who were not paid enough for the hours they worked under the General Retail Industry Award.

RETAIL INDUSTRY AWARD, determined by the Industrial Court, not an enterprise agreement between Big Business and a soft soap union, in this case the SDA, a piss weak union if ever there was one. Sure a guilt ridden employee of BHP fessed up to what was going on, pleading guilty doesn't get you off the hook!

Failure to comply with regulations is not theft. Genuine wage theft is a serious criminal problem that manly affects migrant workers on short term visas. Compliance failure, where there's no intent to defraud, is a civil problem that should not be conflated with it.

Hi Aiden,

True what you say, but in the case of BHP was it wage theft by deliberate action, ie programming computers to deduct public holidays from annual leave entitlements, or was it nothing more than a case of some clerical error. When talking of hundred of millions of dollars these things should be investigated.

My granddaughter had a part time job doing table service in a expensive restraint. in our local area, She was working plenty of hours, now she has quit, well they stopped giving her shifts. Seems she was ripped-off wages and also underpaid working Sundays and public holidays. All they had for record keeping of time worked, was a sign in book, and fortnightly pay into your bank account (not always on time). I said to her, demand pay slips, that's not good enough. She has lost about $1,000 maybe more, and that's a lot for a 17 year old. Even when she complained, all the manager/owner would say is; "we don't do the pays, you'll have to take it up with the accounting firm", what a cop out.

G'day Pal,
Under WorkChoices they treated all days as the same.
Failure to subsequently correct that adequately could well be an oversight not deliberate action.

Governments seem to be stealing money off workers by their lockdowns of the economy- except a few sectors such as health- which has become highly politicized seemingly along communist lines- and in many cases giving money to the health sector that have a vested interest in prolonging the crises for personal and political reasons.

CM,

You are so parnoid about these so called "communist", that your posts are unbelievable. You must be some tutti-fruiti religious nut job orbiting way out on the far right. When asked to "name these communists" controlling Australian society, you can't name a single one.