WOOLWORTHS: THE FRESH FOOLED PEOPLE
Woolworths didn’t set out to underpay its staff. It set out to simplify a system that has now become so unworkable that even the regulator has been found advancing interpretations the court has rejected.
In the recent Federal Court judgement against Woolworths and Coles there is a section that should stop every Australian business owner cold: a worker can be paid more than they are owed, and you can still be found guilty of underpaying them.
This is not a joke, rather it is the conclusion of a new report by HR Nicholls, Woolworths: The Fresh Fooled People, which dissects one of the country’s largest wage compliance cases and where the central finding reads more like satire.
