Unintentional shortfall
YOU’VE PROBABLY heard the term ‘wage theft’ coupled with talk of tougher penalties and criminalisation for employers who underpay their employees.
It is used by some politicians and unions to refer to employers who have underpaid their employees or failed to provide them with all their entitlements, either wilfully or because of errors. NatRoad rejects the term ‘wage theft’. It is a loaded term, with no legal basis, that leads to demands for tougher penalties and even the application
