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Business Ethics and Scam Assignment

   

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Running head: BUSINESS ETHICSBusiness EthicsName of the StudentName of the UniversityAuthor Note
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1BUSINESS ETHICSThe problem in 7 ElevenThe scam that has been identified in this context of the organization is known to be the‘half pay’ scam. The scam was detected when Pendem, the Indian student worked at the threedifferent stores under the four franchisees in the Gold Coast region (7-eleven.com 2017). Theworking life in 7 Eleven had been a sheer nightmare for Pendem since he said that he had towork for almost 16 hours at a stretch and he did not even get a proper break in his workinghours. He had been victim of a robbery twice in his working days within 18 hours in Balaclava(Levy and Kochan 2012). He had admitted that he was paid $10 at a store per hour and he got$14 at another store for working as hourly payment.There have been such cases in 7 Eleven as well where the cases of fraud have been foundout in the reports. There have been serious problems like the breaching of the workplace laws asnoted by the Fair Work Ombudsman. Fresh investigations have been launched in this aspect byFair Work Ombudsman. The organization 7 Eleven has been engaged in various issues like $170billion fraud of the wages that should have been paid to the workers of the organization. Theyhave engaged in such cases like the payment frauds to its workers and the federal government ison the path to execute a strict punishment on this organization. They have deprived severalworkers of their wages and some of them have been presented with the underpayment.These systematic wage frauds have become a central part of the working facilitiesinAustralia. The workers have been exploited in a very nasty way and the parliament members arevery serious about these issues. Clearly, the thing that has been done is clearly unethical. Thereports are that the organization has paid $26 million back to its 680 workers. However, this doesnot resolve the issue since the lives of the workers have been hampered and they have been
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