Don’t blame “complexity” for wage theft

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Wesfarmers CEO Rob Scott says the complexity of the industrial relations system has contributed to the wage underpayments scandal that has embroiled a number of large employers:

Wesfarmers says the ­“incredible complexity” of the ­industrial relations system has contributed to Target underpaying employees by $9m over the past decade…

Chief executive Rob Scott said… the string of underpayments disclosed by major employers showed there had been significant issues across payroll systems that “in part reflects the incredible complexity of the systems that we are dealing with”…

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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.