Don’t be cruel

BEN SEWELL Ben Sewell, principal at specialist law firm and consultancy Sewell & Kettle.

We are seeing more and more big Australian companies – including name brands – being called out for underplaying employees.

For big outfits, this might be appropriate. But the Australian economy is built on the back of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and for them, it’s more complicated. SMEs don’t have access to the resources of big