18 February 2020
The Australian
Coles has become the latest retailer to discover it has underpaid its staff, adding to a growing list of businesses caught out such as Woolworths, Bunnings and Super Retail Group, and will pay back $3 million plus $1 million in interests and costs to its staff in its liquor arm.
In total it is setting aside $20m for six years of wages to remediate the underpayment issue.
And there are early signs it might have underpaid staff in its flagship supermarkets arm too with an early review showing pay differences to the award.
“Over recent months, various Australian companies have announced reviews of their remuneration frameworks for salaried employees. Coles has been conducting its own review of award covered salaried team members, which is ongoing,” Coles said this morning in a statement.
“This review does not relate to team members who are remunerated in accordance with approved enterprise agreements and who comprise over 90 per cent of our workforce.”
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