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Australian bosses could go to jail for 10 years and be fined $1.65 million if they "deliberately" underpay their workers, as part of new laws that nationally criminalise wage theft from January 1.

The new laws and penalties follow years of underpayment scandals in Australia, with cases at prominent employers including Woolworths, Chatime, Qantas, NAB, BHP, 7-Eleven and the ABC.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The only people that hate it are the Chamber of Commerce. They probably also 'slammed' the abolition of slavery back in the day, so I don't see why they get to feature in the headline instead of the workers, government agencies and academics who are all for it.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

If an employee steals from the till, they'd go to jail.

If an employer steals from all it's employees pockets, they just have to pay back the money they stole. Only if they're caught. There's no incentive NOT to.

[–] kurikai 12 points 2 weeks ago

Good. They should. Theft is theft

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

What kind of bullshit headline is that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Those slammers can go fuck themselves