ARTICLE · 02 OCTOBER 2012

A fair day's wage for a fair day's work: Detecting payroll underpayments through data analytics

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Data analytics techniques can detect payroll underpayments to avoid the potential risks and publicity of an FWO audit.

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Are you underpaying your employees?

Over recent months,media reports have highlighted a number of cases of employee underpayments, ranging from suburban restaurants to multi-national organisations. According to the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO), a random audit of approximately 2,000 retail business found 26% were breaking workplace laws and/or regulations, on most occasions by underpaying their employees.

In this article Andre Menezes and Ericsson Leung of our Data Analytic team explain how non-intrusive data analytics techniques can be used to assist organisations in detecting payroll underpayments, thereby avoiding the potential risks and adverse publicity of an FWO audit.

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