Underpaying wages – getting it wrong can be costly

Why are so many getting it wrong and at what cost?

Paying wages seems simple, however many businesses have been found to have underpaid their employees, including large corporations such as Woolworths¹, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia², the Australian Broadcasting Corporation³and Qantas⁴.

At Worrells, we've dealt with several external administrations where the entity has:

• An existing underpaid wages liability
• Allegations of underpaid wages
• Or we've identified an underpaid wages issue, and calculated the underpaid wages owing to the affected employees.

So, where do businesses go wrong with paying wages to their employees?

Whilst this is not an exhaustive list, we've found that some potential causes of underpaid wages include: