Allan Fels says 7-Eleven's $173m wage theft bill should have been higher

 

Convenience store chain 7-Eleven has paid back $173 million to more than 4000 victims of endemic wage theft at its franchise network, but former Australian Competition and Consumer Commission boss Allan Fels said that amount represented only a fraction of the chain's unpaid wages.

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The regulator sued 11 7-Eleven franchisees over pay issues in recent years, with a cumulative total of $1.8 million in penalties awarded against them, equivalent to about 1 per cent of the underpayments nationally.

In full:  https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/7-eleven-forced-to-pay-173-million-to-underpaid-workers-20201030-p56a1n.html