Australia's largest car dealer, Eagers Automotive, back-pays $16m to workers after self-reporting to regulator

Eagers Automotive has back-paid over 13,000 workers $16 million for underpayments between 2013 and 2021.

Its review found AHG subsidiaries had unlawfully failed to pay staff in line with award progression, had incorrectly classified employees, did not pay overtime, annual leave and annual leave loading, did not pay for training and failed to pay, as required, when employees were sent home due to no work.Eagers informed the regulator in June 2021 and the five subsidiaries have signed an enforceable undertaking with the regulator.

As a holding company, Eagers is now Australia's largest car dealership business, with annual revenue of $9.85 billion. Employees affected by the underpayments were engaged full-time, part-time and casually across car and truck dealerships in the network as finance officers, and in car sales, parts sales and servicing employees.

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