Jail is NOT a deterrent because right Barrister, right Solicitor and get the right Judge sitting the case and also time inside. More money the easier it is to just pay the fine. No problem.
Take money and assets and some kind of community logged in service hours which is with an organisation affected/effected by whatever has done or the crime. DO THE CRIME DO THE TIME.
Well you take all their money and assets and put them on the dole.
I like that. You should be on the parole board.
If I was on the parole board it would not meet very often.
Community service could be working in a chain gang. We could use them to build and fix roads. Chain gangs should be brought back.
And the birch…and the stocks…
Cat o’nine tails
No thanks, that’s a seriously barbaric tool
We are Bomber supporters, we understand pain and suffering, and crave to inflict it on others.
Fark Carlton.
getting more interesting…
Woolworths has admitted underpaying 5,700 of its supermarket workers as much as $300 million over the past decade.
In a statement to the stock exchange, Woolworths said it discovered thousands of salaried staff across its supermarkets and Metro stores had not been paid in full as set out in the General Retail Industry Award.
Woolworths said the underpayment emerged when the implementation of a new enterprise agreement highlighted “an inconsistency in pay” under the old agreement for some workers.
The retail giant has estimated the one-off impact of the underpayment could be in the range of $200 million to $300 million before tax, given that the issue goes back as far as 2010.
It also promised that past and present staff who were underpaid would receive their full entitlements, including back pay with interest and superannuation, as soon as possible.
“We unreservedly apologise,” Woolworths chief executive Brad Banducci said.
“The highest priority for Woolworths Group right now is to address this issue, and to ensure that it doesn’t happen again.”
How come they never report on all the times they’ve overpaid staff. Just never happens, unless you’re Centrelink.
Ahh, the old “We’re sorry we got caught” excuse.
The people responsible for this should be facing criminal charges.
I can understand small businesses sometimes getting these things wrong, running a SMB is freaking hard work, long hours, and finances are not normally their thing. But these bigger businesses, especially a massive company like Woolies, a business that employs a large dedicated finances team (larger than most businesses just on it’s own as a department) have no excuse whatsoever.
Something similar happened at my work and they didn’t even tell us, just suddenly ended up with money in our pay packets and then trying to explain they had been ripping us off. Everyone started lodging HR complaints and payroll complaints to make sure that a proper audit was done and that we were actually getting what we wewre owed, not just some dodgy “here is some money we owe you but can’t tell you really how much we owe you, so be glad and shut up”.
They’re so keen to overpay people that they seem to regularly take it back by accident.
My local Woolworths Safeway only has office staff from 9-11 am. And most of the jobs are permanent part time or casual. So, Woolies is making the salaries calculations complicated with fewer office staff to manage. The sort of dodge Calombaris was up to
read the article how the union did a deal to pay them under the award…makes sense not!
The construction industry award is a nightmare.
These underpayments is clearly a massive thing. Deliberate or not, something is not working for both big and small employers. Government or some other agency needs to set up a website where employees can put in their promised salary with boxes to check for super and whatever else to see what they should be receiving. It can also help the employers to get their system sorted out.
Why does the apology always comes after the act and being sprung. Apology my foot.
What?