Usually when something of this nature is made public action is taken to fix the problem or charges laid on the company or offenders. Some action has been taken but now instead of half pay its taking half the cash back which means the illegal activity is still ongoing. The company screws the franchisee who then screws the worker and all know what the other is doing. The worker however is at the bottom and even with the revelations has little protection and many are open to extortion because of circumstances of student visa and similar. Australias reputation gets tarnished as a place of fair employment practices.

Proof we need unions.

I wonder why the unions have done nothing to protect workers in this case?

Could it be that the unions are the source of this culture which appeared to have started when they first got into government 8 years ago. The idea of Indians buying cheap businesses which are struggling against insolvency, employing fellow imigrants and paying low wages. All this to serve the single purpose of gaining citizenship. I saw it in fuel stops as I chatted to owners around the country a few years ago.

7 Eleven have been found to be illegally underpaying staff at the stores. The company has attempted to remedy or cover its backside but the way the workers are diddled is all that has changed it seems.

Banjo

I suggest you read up on the topic and also the situation regarding foreign students/workers.

The inquiry was a pre-election promise by the premier, Daniel Andrews, however the state minister for industrial relations, Natalie Hutchins, began the inquiry in September 2015 off the back of the 7-Eleven scandal, a shocking Four Corners investigation into workplace abuses within the food supply chain and a cascade of subsequent exposures into sham contracting and exploitation of insecure work across several different industries.

More than 600 submissions were received by workers in an outreach effort coordinated by the Victorian Trades Hall. You can read online what these people have sent in; it’s sobering.

There are stories of underpayment, labour hire contractors who go missing, workers who lose all their shifts with no warning or reason despite knowing of new casuals brought into the workplace. Some workers are obliged to work regular hours and do so for years but are never transferred into a permanent position that would offer them entitlements to long service, sick and carers’ leave, paid holidays, stable hours or the basic security of an ongoing income.

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2016/feb/07/insecure-work-loss-of-entitlements-underpayment-its-all-in-a-days-work