Anthony Forsyth, Professor of Workplace Law at RMIT University, has roasted claims by employer groups that Australia’s “complex” industrial relations system is behind the rise in wage theft cases:
Is Australia’s award system so complex major corporations capable of handling millions of customers and billions of dollars can’t manage to pay employees properly?
That’s the spin flowing freely in the wake of Australian supermarket behemoth Woolworths admitting it had underpaid about 5,700 staff by up to A$300 million.
