Fair Work Ombudsman reveals 10 excuses bosses use to underpay employees
Friday 7 December 2012 @ 11.02 a.m. | Industrial Law
When he is investigating breaches of workplace rights, the Fair Work Ombudsman comes across a few pearlers of excuses from bosses for underpaying employees.
Nicholas Wilson says some of the excuses he has heard range from “we don’t have time
to provide pay slips” or “opening and closing the business is part of the job, and
you don’t get paid for it.”
“I have to say that in the main, our experience is that most businesses try to do
the right thing by their staff, but obviously we do come across some that take short-cuts
because they simply haven’t bothered to access the information they need to make the
right decisions,” he says.
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