Comment on Australian bosses on notice as 'deliberate' wage theft becomes a crime
assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 1 month agoLaws are written by rich often white men. Don’t be surprised when the law benefits people of their class.
Comment on Australian bosses on notice as 'deliberate' wage theft becomes a crime
assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 1 month agoLaws are written by rich often white men. Don’t be surprised when the law benefits people of their class.
eureka@aussie.zone 1 month ago
The important point in this situation is that the ruling class is the owning class; the bourgeoisie. The racial and sexual composition of that class may change (and is already different in many countries), but we should not mistake that for a solution because until there is economic overhaul, the owning class is the class which determines and benefits from laws.
While you are correct that the most influential in Australia are rich and often also ‘white’ men, we must remember that these laws are ultimately written by politicians subject to capital owners, and written to benefit capital owners. That’s why wage theft was only a civil matter - because business owners of all stripes benefit from wage theft.