The man who exposed the Coles wages scandal in his spare time

Ben Schneiders Josh Cullinan, the man who helped expose the underpayment scandal at Coles, should have been a great potential hire for the "shoppies" union.

Coles underpaid workers and cut penalty rates: tribunal

Ben Schneiders, Royce Millar and Nick Toscano Supermarket giant Coles has been found to have seriously under-paid its workforce under a cosy deal it struck with the shop assistants union that cut penalty rates

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McDonald's pay deal: dirty little secret of the penalty rates debate

Ben Schneiders You would assume that those who work for the country's largest employers, under union agreements, would be paid proper, award rates. Not necessarily so.Not so.

Hamburgled: McDonald's, Coles, Woolworths workers lose in union pay deals

Ben Schneiders, Nick Toscano, Royce Millar Burger giant McDonald's is underpaying its Australian workers tens of millions of dollars a year under a cosy deal struck with Labor's largest union affiliate that excluded weekend penalty rates.

Toll giant Transurban wants to charge for all roads

Ben Schneiders and Royce Millar Jeff Kennett helped create a toll road monster. Now he says we are being ''ripped off'' and Transurban executives are 'laughing underwater'.

'Low-paying' deal for Coles supermarket staff faces landmark challenge

Ben Schneiders and Nick Toscano It's the greatest mismatch since Darryl Kerrigan in The Castle took on city hall to keep his family home … and won.

Disused dump marketed and sold multiple times

Royce Millar and Ben Schneiders A disused rubbish dump in Melbourne's west was marketed and sold multiple times in a multimillion-dollar scam that deepens the land banking scandal centred on notorious property spruiker,...

An 'iBribe'? Union boss offers iPads to flight attendants as election looms

Ben Schneiders International flight attendants have been offered new Apple iPad Pro's - all paid for by their union. Just, coincidentally, as a union election is under way.

Judge lifts lid on Henry Kaye's secret windfall from land bank scam

Royce Millar, Ben Schneiders, Simon Johanson Notorious property spruiker Henry Kaye charged 60 per cent interest on a $1 million loan to a discredited land banking scam into which mum and dad investors tipped tens of millions of dollars.

First National Real Estate: network's agents rebel over 'cooked books'

Royce MIllar, Ben Schneiders One of Australia's largest real estate networks is facing internal upheaval amid allegations of mismanagement, manipulation of books, and possible conflicts of interest.

Key union rorts Labor numbers

Ben Schneiders and Royce Millar One of Bill Shorten's closest political allies has inflated his union's membership levels in an apparent bid to boost the union's clout in the ALP and prop up the opposition leader's dominant right...

Workers at Woolworths supplier paid a pittance, threatened

Ben Schneiders and Royce Millar A major supplier to supermarket giant Woolworths paid workers a pittance and threatened they would be replaced by machines

Cosy Coles deal with shop union that left workers worse off under further scrutiny

Ben Schneiders and Royce Millar A cosy deal between Coles and the shop assistants union that would have left tens of thousands of workers underpaid is under further scrutiny

Construction watchdog faces internal fight

Nick Toscano and Ben Schneiders The head of the nation's building industry watchdog has attempted to thwart the release of files containing potentially troubling details of an internal feud with a senior...

Turnbull-backed sports venture faces wind-up

Royce Millar and Ben Schneiders A firm that attracted financial backing from some of the country's glitterati is facing a wind-up action from former employees.

Watchdog moves on Henry Kaye-linked scheme

Royce Millar, Ben Schneiders, Simon Johanson A massive land banking scam linked to notorious property spruiker Henry Kaye is in tatters after the corporate regulator moved to wind up housing projects in Melbourne's outer west and Bendigo.

Labor loses legal bid to silence whistleblower

Ben Schneiders and Royce Millar The Victorian ALP has failed in its dramatic legal bid to silence branch-stacking whistleblower

Victorian Labor in Supreme Court action against whistleblower

Royce Millar, Ben Schneiders The Victorian ALP's branch-stacking scandal has deteriorated into a bitter legal row with party headquarters taking Supreme Court action against a veteran whistleblower who has pursued factional...

Inga Peulich sues over 'racist bully' row

Royce Millar and Ben Schneiders The Victorian opposition's multicultural spokeswoman insists she is not a racist bully and is suing an Indian member of her party to prove it.