Reference :- Wage theft by big companies , and small , is estimated to exceed 1.35 billion quid every year in Australia .
The Sky Reply is not in the habit of singling out specific offenders in such sensitive matters . But stuff it , Woolworths appears to have underpaid it's staff by 300 or 400 million and that seems like a lot for one company . Did their accountants wonder why their profit projections were pessimistic to the tune of nearly half a billion ? Or did they figure they must have sold more of their new line of tofu burgers than expected . Maybe their accountants studied at the same place as Angus Taylor back when he thought he was close friends with Naomi Wolf . That would explain their lack of proficiency with mathematics .
Never chastened , the conservative press has been quick to blame the usual suspects . Not the pricks who stole the money , of course , but the government for introducing too many regulations , and the unions for demanding overly complex awards . The award for cleaners must be especially regulated and complex , since they have been robbed more often than most .
Well , who can say ? Maybe a computer that can keep tabs on thousands of items of stock , their expiry dates , their prices and specials and loyalty rewards , their profit margins, their sales volumes relative to other brands , their seasonal availability , their wholesale price fluctuations , their popularity by postcode , their rate of return , their position on the shelves , the style of their packaging , their rate of breakage , their cost of transport and their association with the purchase of other products etc ...... just can't work out how to avoid underpaying the person who mops the floors. Though , apparently it is easy enough to work out how to avoid overpaying them .
My son , Ken junior , is curious to know if any of the CEOs of these big companies have been underpaid for years . He says that their salaries must be very complicated , with large sums , fringe benefits and associated taxes , travel expenses , share options , bonuses and the suchlike . That would appear to be far more complex than the cleaner's award , so I guess those CEOs must have been getting overpaid , I mean underpaid , for years also .
Ken junior reckons somebody should look into that . Your comrade , Ken
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