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EDITORIAL FOR ‘THE AUSTRALIAN’
Exploitation by 7-Eleven has left a spillover effect
The retail sector in Australia is going through a bad phase. Experts blame that the turmoil
in the retail sector is due to the issue of ‘wage fraud’ by 7-eleven. According to them, this is
unexpected from a retail giant like ‘7-Eleven’. Australia is one of the 17 countries, where this
Japanese owned international chain of retail hub has established its largest convenience store. ‘7-
Eleven’ has been crowned with the title of ‘Australia's franchiser of the year’ several time.
According to the investigation conducted in 2016, by joint four corners and Fairfax, in
order to fulfill its intention to reduce labor costs, the company has adopted practices which are
unethical and exploitative. The reports published after investigation showed that young and
foreign employee at the 7-Eleven store in Australia at 7- Eleven were underpaid. The rate of
payment is substantially low. Sometimes the rate is about 50% below the minimum wage (ABC
News., 2019). As per the report published by joint four corners, Company director Jing Qi Xia
and her 7-Eleven store manager Ai Ling Lin were alleged of exploiting the employees at the
retail store of Australia, who were basically international students who came to study in
Australia and worked in retail store of 7-11 to support their living in Australia. The report also
revealed how the company threatened young workers from so that the issue of ‘wage fraud does
not come in front of the mass (Smethurst, 2019).
Fairfax report argued that, there should be strict legal actions against 7-Eleven. As a
result, the director of the company, and Ai Ling Lin, one of the store managers were penalized
by the in the Federal Circuit Court (The Sydney Morning Herald, 2019).