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Yes, companies sometime underpay workers. Get over it

1 November 2019

5:00 AM

1 November 2019

5:00 AM

Most of us have now heard that another company — Woolworths this time — has underpaid workers and are going to have to pay the workers back a large amount of money, and are likely to face large fines. This has prompted the usual suspects to renew their calls for criminal penalties to apply in cases like these and for board members, directors, CEOs and the like to do time.

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