How researchers are using data science to map wage theft
Professor John Howe and Timothy Kariotis
February 11, 2021
The underpayment of 7-Eleven workers brought wage theft to pubic attention. Source: Getty.
What started as a few underpayment cases revealed by the Australian media in 2015 has turned into an epidemic of ‘wage theft’.
Wage theft is the popular term that has come to describe “under-or non-payment of minimum wages and entitlements that are rightfully owed to a worker”.
Wage theft broke into the public consciousness at large in 2015 with a joint investigation by Fairfax Media and ABC’s
Four Corners into underpayment of 7-Eleven workers.