Economist Alan Moran told Sky News Host Chris Kenny employees are being underpaid by large companies due to “the complexity of the regulatory environment”.
Mr Moran suggested that the “complexity” surrounding “wage determination” and the difficulties “associated with the very high minimum wages” enforced in Australia have “created these problems”. “Wage determination [in Australia] is far more complex than in other countries and we have 120 different awards in this industry,” he said.
Mr Moran said it was “deliciously ironic” that the ABC and other virtue signallers of the world had been caught up in these scandals and suggested the underpayment of employees was in most cases “inadvertent”. “Firms have software packages which prevent them underpaying people but its obviously difficult to manage in certain cases”. According to Mr Moran “we have established such a fantastically complex system that no one knows what the rates should be at any one time”.
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