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DRIVERS UNDERPAID * Australia: Trucking firm underpaid driver to stay competitive
* Western Australia - Trucking company blames unpaid wages on fiercely competitive contract tenders. Fair Work Ombudsman says companies must pay their employees for all time worked
(Video by MetalTeamster - Aug 7, 2014: Serious Truck - Car accident on I-82, WA State, between Ellensburg and Yakima - Young lady in car rear ends the May truck, note the ICC bumper. No idea why she did not see the semi truck)
-- A Western Australian trucking company has confessed to ripping off its truck driver so it could lower its costs to remain competitive... The Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) discovered underpayments totalling $20,000 after the affected truck driver approached the agency about unpaid wages... It says the driver was not paid for loading or unloading his truck for four years and had been underpaid his cents-per-kilometre rate and living away from home allowance... The company, based at Midvale, admitted to the FWO it underpaid its driver because the only way it could remain competitive was to cut its wages bill... It claims tenders for new contracts are fiercely competitive and lower prices can only be achieved through lower wages... Ombudsman Natalie James says employers cannot undercut employees’ wages and entitlements to try and gain an unfair advantage over their competitors...
Midvale, WA, Australia - Fully Loaded - 1 June 2015
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