'Bad day for working Australians': Sunday penalty rates slashed
Hundreds of thousands of Australians who work on Sundays will have their take-home pay reduced after a landmark ruling by the national workplace umpire.
Anna Patty is Workplace Editor for The Sydney Morning Herald. She is a former Education Editor, State Political Reporter and Health Reporter. Her reports on inequity in schools funding led to the Gonski reforms and won her national awards. Her coverage of health exposed unnecessary patient deaths at Campbelltown Hospital and led to judicial and parliamentary inquiries. At The Times of London, she exposed flaws in international medical trials.
Hundreds of thousands of Australians who work on Sundays will have their take-home pay reduced after a landmark ruling by the national workplace umpire.
The time you spend working on a Sunday is still worth more than it is on a Saturday, but not as much as it was in the past, according to the Fair Work umpire.
As a casual waitress, Erin Gibbons doesn't always know when she will be working each week, or how much she will earn.
Who will gain the most from the changes, and who will be the hardest hit? The penalty rates decision in a nutshell.
"If the business doesn't grow, how are we going to employ more people?" asks restaurateur Mohammad Bhuiya after the Fair Work Commission excluded restaurants and cafes from its Sunday penalty rate cut.
A highly anticipated ruling on whether to slash weekend penalty rates for Australians working in retail, fast food and hospitality jobs will be handed down on Thursday.
More than 7000 Commonwealth Bank of Australia part-time staff are owed millions of dollars in unpaid superannuation entitlements, according to legal advice.
Food and drink company PepsiCo will boost paid parental leave for employees from 12 to 16 weeks and double paid leave for carers from one to two weeks.
Jon Black, the head of TAFE NSW makes no apologies for being too close to business.
The NSW government has admitted an external contractor didn't check whether Australian workers were available before hiring from overseas.
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