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Big retailers to push through new deals after penalty rate decision
Australia's biggest retailers are expected to seize on the landmark cut to Sunday penalty rates to push forward new wage deals covering hundreds of thousands of workers.
Workplace Reporter for The Age
Australia's biggest retailers are expected to seize on the landmark cut to Sunday penalty rates to push forward new wage deals covering hundreds of thousands of workers.
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.
As a casual waitress, Erin Gibbons doesn't always know when she will be working each week, or how much she will earn.
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.
A childcare provider, whose owner has previously been rebuked as a remorseless offender of wage violations, is embroiled in fresh claims of exploiting staff.
A cleaning contractor faces an investigation into claims of "massive wage theft" spanning a large network of Victoria's government-run schools.
Victoria's Country Fire Authority has stood down a senior member of a large Victorian brigade amid allegations he has been filming women getting changed in a shed without their knowledge.
Building sites across Australia are headed for strife, with union members preparing a wave of mass walkouts over the Turnbull government's hardline new reforms.
Australian workers at transport giant Toll are expected to bear the brunt of a major job-cutting drive.
Australia's largest construction union has been ordered to pay almost $100,000 for blockading a major Port of Melbourne expansion project, and threatening to bring "20,000 members" to join the fight.
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