New report reveals Australia’s worst industries for wage theft
Australia’s worst wage theft criminals have emerged in a new report showing that it has returned to more than $ 1 billion in the last five years.
Wage theft occurs when the workers do not get full legal rights of the employees, when they see that employees miss wages, pension, overtime, penalties or other appropriations.
Reckon analyzed the five-year fair work Ombudsman complaints, which are more than half of the investigations completed between 2019-2024.
The report was paid back to more than $ 1.76 billion workers for five years.
Public Administration and Security, Accommodation and Food Services were the worst industries for wage theft in Australia.
The average amount recovered from non -compatible enterprises in the public administration and security sector was $ 274,884.
He had the highest wage theft rate for 923.3 cases in 100,000, which showed that many enterprises violated the rules.
Usually young employees, ordinary workers, 666 businesses per 100.00, the hospitality sector is not compatible.
The highest average amounts recovered from non -compatible enterprises were mining (4.3 million dollars), then electricity, gas, water and waste services ($ 2.5 million) and finance and insurance services ($ 1.7 million).
The northern region also recorded the highest wage theft cases in the country and was not compatible with 386 businesses per 100,000 people.
In the last five years, there was an increase of 26.6 percent in the number of investigations that found that businesses have done wrong things from 806 cases to about 2500.
SAM Allert, Chairman of the Executive Officer of Reckon, said that it is about encouraging a fair and ethical workplace that benefits employees and businesses.
“Our research reveals that wage theft continues to be an important issue in Australia and that more than 16,700 investigations have been completed and more than 9400 businesses are not compatible in the last five financial years,” he said.
“The scope of this problem is emphasized with $ 1.76 billion paid to the workers and emphasizes extensive results for non -compliance businesses.
“Businesses can regularly review the payroll systems, have information about the sector -specific regulations and immediately protect themselves in relation to any inconsistency.”
