Risk Of Underpaying Employees
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By John Girardi
Reports of businesses underpaying their employees have been appearing in the media on a regular basis for many years now. The Fair Work Ombudsman’s website has a new media release on an almost daily basis, detailing one organisation after another that has been prosecuted for underpaying its employees.
Because of the widespread practice of underpaying workers, the federal and state governments have been introducing changes to put a stop to this problem. Queensland and Victoria now have wage theft laws that can result in business owners and managers receiving heavy fines or even jail time for deliberate and serious underpayments of wages to workers. Other states are set to follow with similar legislation.
