According to data released by the Australian Tax Office in Jan 2022, this company was one of many local and foreign-based companies that paid no tax in Australia in 2019-20. Please note however that companies pay income tax on profits, not revenue (total income). While some companies use tax havens and loopholes to avoid paying their fair share of tax in Australia, other companies that paid no tax have perfectly legitimate reasons.

In July 2016 the NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) fined Baiada $15,000 after an unauthorised and uncontrolled discharge of waste from its poultry abattoir premises at Out Street, Tamworth on 20 August 2015. The incident would have been prevented if scheduled maintenance had been carried out as planned.

Baiada subsidiary BPLA entered into an Enforceable Undertaking with the Fair Work Ombudsman in Jan 2012 after it was discovered that BPLA underpaid employees at its Wingfield plant almost $60,000. All of the underpayments have been rectified.

Cited in 2010 by the state OHS agency WorkSafe for unsafe practices resulting in the decapitation death of immigrant contract worker Sarel Singh. (Further concerns that Baiada workers work in a climate of fear and uncertainty as they are told they cannot access workers compensation if they are injured at work).

Named and shamed in the 2022 CHOICE Shonky Awards for "hiding veggies so well that we could barely find them" in their Steggles Chicken Nuggets Boosted with Veggies.

Some, but not necessarily all, of this company's frozen food products are palm oil free. For more details, follow the link to see Borneo Orangutan Survival Australia's list of products which manufacturers have told them are palm oil free or contain segregated certified sustainable palm oil.

Baiada has improved its workplace practices since 2015 findings of employee exploitation, according to a 2016 report by the Fair Work Ombudsman. Baiada has undertaken to ensure it knows who is working on its sites, and that they have been paid correctly. Baiada has also ensured workers previously underpaid have been able to claim backpay and, where a contractor has not rectified an underpayment, Baiada has taken responsibility and paid-up. The improvements are a result of entering into a Compliance Partnership with the Fair Work Ombudsman in late 2015. However the real test is whether the culture has shifted to one of compliance throughout Baiada's labour supply chain and across all its sites. The Fair Work Ombudsman is continuing to monitor compliance.

Baiada's Lilydale free range chicken is certified by Free Range Egg and Poultry Australia (FREPA). However this only represents a small percentage of this company's total chicken meat production.

The Farm Transparency Project Repository is a public repository/gallery for videos, photos, documents and campaign materials relating to the animal rights movement in Australia. Follow the link to see their profile on this company.