ビジネス · 銀行の賃金未払い
NABは2019年に給与問題を発見したが、2026年まで従業員への賃金未払いを続けた
原語の動画
英語の原文から翻訳されています。
14年間にわたる給与制度の失敗
請求額の内訳
銀行が自社の従業員への支払いを怠る仕組み
オンブズマンは、正しい最低賃金、割増賃金、休暇の権利の支払いにおける「基本的な不備」と表現した。その原因として、「ガバナンス・プロセスの欠陥と遵守管理の見落とし、記録管理の不備、旧式の給与システム、そして給与業務に関連する専門能力への投資の不足」を挙げている。1
これらの失敗はどれも分かりにくいものではない。労働時間の記録、休暇の計算、協定が変わったときの賃率の更新は、あらゆる給与システムの中核的な業務である。オンブズマンが挙げた問題点は、一つの技術的な不具合というより、長年にわたる投資不足を物語っている。
当行は給与関連の義務を、人を雇用する上での基本的な要素として極めて重く受け止めております。これらの意図しない誤りについて、心よりお詫び申し上げます。
裁判にならない理由
それでも、結果は明らかである。200万豪ドルは、NABが支払わなかった賃金の約1.6%にすぎない。数万人を14年にわたって underpay し、問題を報告した後も続けていた銀行は、裁判所による認定も処罰も受けず、その支払い以外の罰則も受けない。ブース氏の理由は協力と返済である。しかし、それが自己報告後に5年間適切な是正がなされなかったことを上回るべきかどうかは判断の問題であり、規制当局はその判断を銀行に有利な形で下した。
市場はほとんど懸念を示さなかった。WSJマーケッツのデータによると、NABの株価は11月11日に38.56豪ドルで終値をつけ、直近では38.77豪ドルで取引され、約0.5%上昇した。直近1か月間は、約38.50豪ドルから41.50豪ドルの間で推移していた。
増え続けた数字
分かっていること
不明な点
- 残りの約1400万豪ドルがいつ支払われるか、また所在の分かりにくい元従業員にどのように連絡が取られるか。支払い期限はまだ発表されていない。
- 2025年8月の1億3000万豪ドルの見積もりが、どのようにして1億6900万豪ドルに膨らんだか。
- 最大の単独未払い額の正確な規模:「最大」なのか「超える」なのか、8万7000豪ドル。
今後の展開
- 遵守の約束を含む確約の全文が、オンブズマンの強制力のある確約の登録簿に掲載されるかどうか。
- 最後の未払い賃金が、支払われるべき人々に届くかどうか。
情報源16
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AAP Newsaap.com.au1
ABC listenabc.net.au1
Australian Financial Reviewafr.com1
fairwork.gov.au1
Google News Australia (AU:en)nine.com.au1
hrleader.com.au1
Human Resources Directorhcamag.com1
Investor Dailyinvestordaily.com.au1
Lawyerlylawyerly.com.au1
Legal 500legal500.com最初1
Mirage Newsmiragenews.com1
放送時の内容
- One of Australia's biggest banks shorted sixty-six thousand of its own workers for fourteen years.
- National Australia Bank now owes them about 169 million dollars with interest and super. And it's settling with the workplace regulator instead of facing a court.
- What still needs answering is how the underpayments kept going for years after the bank reported itself.
- NAB admitted the underpayments on Thursday, Australian time. Full-time, part-time and casual staff in banking and management jobs were hit in every state and territory. They lost ordinary wages, penalty rates, overtime, termination pay, leave and superannuation.
- The unpaid wages come to 127 million dollars, spread across 65,999 current and former employees. That averages a little under two thousand dollars each. But some workers were shorted about 87,000 dollars, more than a year's pay for many bank employees.
- Interest and retirement savings push the bill well past that.
- On top of the 127 million in wages, NAB owes about 34 million in interest and about 8 million in super, Australia's compulsory retirement saving. That's about 169 million. The bank has already paid back about 155 million, so roughly 14 million is still to go.
- The failures started with the basics. NAB didn't record the hours its staff actually worked, so the pay it sent out had no reliable count behind it.
- It also calculated leave balances wrongly. And it never checked that pay kept up with each new enterprise agreement, so wages slid behind what the bank had promised. NAB negotiated and signed those agreements with its workers in 2011, 2014, 2016 and 2024.
- The Ombudsman called these basic failings in paying minimum wages, penalty rates and leave. It blamed weak governance, poor record-keeping, old payroll technology and too little investment in payroll expertise. That list points to years of underinvestment in the bank's own pay system.
- We'll keep following this as the last of the back pay goes out to NAB's workers. Subscribe to this channel, and find more at heyday dot news.
- NAB knew about the problem in 2019, and its staff kept getting underpaid anyway.
- The underpayments began around 2012. In 2019, NAB found the problem and reported itself to the Ombudsman. But a review in 2024 found the bank hadn't properly fixed it. In August 2025, NAB warned investors of about 130 million dollars in payroll costs. Now the bill is 169 million.
- That August warning came with a four and a half percent jump in operating costs, and the payroll problems were described as widening. Nobody has explained how that estimate grew into 169 million.
- NAB won't face a judge over any of this.
- Fair Work Ombudsman Anna Booth accepted an enforceable undertaking, a negotiated deal that spares an employer court and court penalties if it repays workers and commits to compliance. Booth said it was appropriate because NAB cooperated with the investigation and moved to fix the underpayments.
- NAB will also pay two million dollars into the federal government's general account as a contrition payment. That's about 1.6 percent of the wages it failed to pay. Beyond that, a bank that underpaid tens of thousands of people for 14 years faces no court finding and no penalty.
- The bank has also committed to measures meant to keep it within workplace law from here on.
- NAB's people and culture chief, Sarah White, apologised. She said the bank takes its payroll obligations extremely seriously, called the mistakes unintended errors, and said NAB has paid back, and will keep paying back, anyone affected.
- The bank says it's investing in a new human resources system and a new payroll platform.
- Investors barely moved. NAB shares closed at 38 dollars 56 the day before the admission, and were last quoted at 38.77, up about half a percent. Over the past month they've traded between roughly 38.50 and 41.50.
- About 14 million dollars still hasn't reached the people it's owed to, and some of them are former employees who may be hard to find.
- No deadline has been announced for the rest of that back pay.
- The bank reported itself in 2019, then kept running a payroll that didn't record hours or keep up with its own pay deals, and a review five years later found the problems still unfixed. The underpayments ran into this year.
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