Woolworths Group Ltd said it had underpaid thousands of supermarket workers for ...
) said it had underpaid thousands of supermarket workers for years and will need to repay as much as A$300 million , the latest and most high-profile company to be caught up in wage scandals across corporate Australia.
The underpayment of workers has emerged as a hot-button issue this year but Woolworths’ disclosure is the biggest by far, increasing the odds that the government will be prompted into more action. Woolworths added that the underpayments may date back to 2010, and said it would contact staff who had left. It plans to start making the repayments by the end of the year.
It will investigate Woolworths, which reported the breach itself and “hold them to account”, it added. Since then, one of Australia’s best-known celebrity chefs, George Calombaris, admitted to underpaying restaurant staff nearly A$8 million while jeweller Michael Hill International Ltd has said it underpaid staff A$25 million.
The Australian Industry Group, a group representing more than 60,000 companies, said in a discussion paper this week there was an important distinction between “employers that have made genuine mistakes which have led to miscalculations and underpayments, and employers that deliberately underpay their employees.”
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