Deliberate non-payment of super should be treated ‘like wage theft’, Labor says

Assistant treasurer Stephen Jones says the estimated $5bn to $6bn of unpaid super is not all ‘inadvertent mistakes’. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

Deliberate underpayment or failure to pay superannuation should be treated “in the same way as wage theft”, the assistant treasurer, Stephen Jones has declared.

In comments to an Industry Super pre-budget conference on Thursday, Jones also confirmed the Albanese government would set targets for the Australian Tax Office to recover an estimated $5bn unpaid super.