The article doesn’t mention superannuation, I wonder whether that’s also covered?
5th line down.
But it will have to prove that the employer intentionally avoided paying a worker appropriate wages and penalties, superannuation or other entitlements.
Comment on Australian bosses on notice as 'deliberate' wage theft becomes a crime
Nath@aussie.zone 9 months ago
The article doesn’t mention superannuation, I wonder whether that’s also covered?
I’m fairly sure that a former employer underpaid my super to the tune of about $5k, but I was young and lazy and stupidly didn’t follow that up.
It’s a bit hard to go back 15 years later and ask. I don’t really even know what he should have paid vs. what he actually paid. My suspicion comes from other employees complaining that super was not being paid.
MrNobody@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That happened at my workplace. The ATO was notified, and after a lengthy investigation each staff member were repaid tens of thousands of dollars, including the extra that would have been generated through super growth.
The ATO does not muck around.
dgriffith@aussie.zone 9 months ago
The ATO would know, and while they are slow, once it is raised with them they get there in the end. About 5 years after I left a job I got a letter out of the blue from the ATO saying that they’d chased down a quarter’s worth of super payments that the business didn’t pay when I left.
Perhaps not 15 years later though, but it’s worth a shot.