i’d imagine if an employee brings up that they’re being underpaid (perhaps anonymously), and then nothing changes then that constituted deliberate
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spiffmeister@aussie.zone 10 months ago
“deliberate” seems like a pretty high bar. Of course it doesn’t stop employer groups crying that literally stealing is being made illegal.
pupbiru@aussie.zone 10 months ago
PetulantBandicoot@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Yeah, seems a bit hard to prove if the wage theft is “deliberate” or a mistake.
DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
And sometimes they deliberately allow mistakes that occur in their favour.
DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Hopefully if an employer does it repeatedly, that meets the bar of deliberately.
spiffmeister@aussie.zone 10 months ago
I hope you’re right, but I suspect a case like this will not count still because “oh the payroll didn’t work properly” means you didn’t do an audit but you didn’t deliberately do it.