The small business lobby has hit back the Coalition’s proposed laws to penalise wage theft, claiming that it unfairly would penalise businesses making ‘honest mistakes’:
Council of Small Business Organisations president Peter Strong said if the prime minister went ahead with criminal sanctions, he must also address the “complexity” of the modern award system, which he argued made it too easy to accidentally underpay staff…
Small Business Ombudsman Kate Carnell agreed, calling on Industrial Relations Minister Christian Porter to “simplify” laws and regulations governing pay and conditions as part of his sweeping review of the nation’s industrial relations system…
