It would have been unthinkable even a few years ago for a Coalition government to talk about introducing laws that make wage theft a crime. But it is a reflection of how brazen and widespread worker underpayment has become | OPINION
or introducing laws that make wage theft a crime.
But that does not mean these “reform options” are insignificant. They include disqualifying directors where significant underpayments occur, forcing employers to display notices admitting they had underpaid workers, banning companies that underpay workers from using some forms of temporary migrant labour, and a small claims tribunal for underpayments.Some of the reform options are almost identical to policy positions of the union movement and ALP.
While the Coalition has adeptly read the hostile public mood towards wage underpayment it remains far from pro-union. The Ensuring Integrity Bill it wanted to introduce before Christmas was an undemocratic interference in the operation of unions, and it still wants to pass a version of that bill.
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