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7-Eleven compensation climbs over $110 million
The level of compensation paid out highlights failures in Australia's employment law system to keep wage theft in check.
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.
The level of compensation paid out highlights failures in Australia's employment law system to keep wage theft in check.
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