greggerypeccary wrote on Apr 17
th, 2018 at 8:20am:
"were each fined $15,000 after the Fair Work Ombudsman investigated and took legal action."Just $15,000 ?
You're kidding me!
These guys deserve a few months in the can.
At the very least, a $50,000 fine.
We need to
change the rules. The fine is a bloody joke. Workers get fined more than that if they strike for a single day.
If it's appropriate for workers to get fined $25,000 per day of strike action, it would be proportionate to fine employers $25,000 per day they underpay staff. For underpaying someone for 800 days of work, the fine should be $20 million. Seems about right.
It's not even that ridiculous because there is legislative precedent. $20,000 per day is roughly the amount that workers in the USA can get from suing employers for wage theft.
When there are REAL consequences, HEAVY consequences, bankrupting consequences, never-run-a-business-again consequences, this criminal activity will cease very quickly.