Coles subcontractor underpaid trolley collectors by $220000
Bhupinder Singh was a trolley collector who was underpaid $90,000. Picture: Kelly Barnes/The AustralianTHEY perform one of the lowest paid, but essential jobs that keep our supermarkets running like clockwork. But Coles trolley collectors have been getting paid as little as $5 an hour, in an exploitation scandal that has seen the supermarket giant lashed by the Fair Work Ombudsman.Fair Work Ombudsman Natalie James told the Australian it was time for big business to stop turning a blind eye to un..>> view originalHow to kill a shopping centre
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Train strikes could again hit Melbourne with pay talks stalling between workers and operator Metro. The transport union is preparing to strike for 48 hours after pay talks between Melbourne rail maintenance workers and Metro Trains broke down.The Rail, Tram and Bus Union is pushing for a 17 per cent pay rise for Metro Trains' infrastructure maintenance workers - in line with the pay rise granted to drivers last year - and is preparing for a 48-hour strike.They say Metro has offered them a ..>> view originalRate rigging case a 'credit negative' for ANZ, says Moody's
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Video will begin in 5 seconds. 'The conduct of this bank is anything but ethical.' Lawyer Michael Bates says the CommInsure claims are 'certainly the biggest thing I’ve heard as a litigation lawyer.' PT1M23S 620 349 The peak body representing retail shareholders in Australia has called for a royal commission into the insurance sector and urged the Commonwealth Bank of Australia to "start taking ethics seriously" after a scandal within the bank's insurance arm CommInsure.The ..>> view originalBackpacker tax rise is just picking low-hanging fruit
BACKPACKERS cop a rough deal. Often young and scruffy, and prone to take advantage of any public shower block, they are seen as the bottom rung of the international-visitor food chain. While we go into raptures over the latest load of cashed-up octogenarians to roll off a shiny white ship at Station Pier ready to take on city retailers (once they work out the myki mystery), backpackers are tut-tutted and moved on by council officers.But the economic worth of backpackers is most likely more valua..>> view originalIt's on Defence's head: FIRB chairman on Darwin Port
The top official for vetting foreign investment was so concerned the Port of Darwin would be leased to a Chinese company that he asked three times for the Department of Defence and intelligence agencies to consider the national security implications "at the highest possible level".The Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) and the Department of Defence are under scrutiny over the Northern Territory's decision to lease the port to Landbridge, which has links to the People's Liberation Army, and..>> view original
Thursday, March 10, 2016
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