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MEDIA RELEASE | Retail workers face losing $5,000 a year – and it won’t stop there

Australian Unions are standing up to some of the country’s largest retailers in a fight to stop the abolition of penalty rates for retail workers nationwide. ACTU Secretary, Sally McManus, and SDA National Secretary, Gerard Dwyer, are in Sydney today where a full bench of the Fair Work Commission is hearing a bid to wipe out penalty rates for at least 200,000 retail workers.

Union Win: New Laws Around Casual Conversion

New laws have come into effect which will give casual workers more power to convert to permanent employment.

MEDIA RELEASE | Retail union welcomes Albanese government action to give Mosaic workers early access to entitlements

The SDA welcomes the fact that its representations to the Albanese government mean that thousands of Mosaic workers will now receive their legal entitlements without waiting for the full liquidation process to unfold.

Retail workers to face unacceptable abuse over festive season

Remember, your employer must provide you with a safe workplace free from abuse, harassment and violence all year round.

Communique: RESC tackling retail worker safety in the lead up to Christmas

In the all-important festive season for the retail sector, the tripartite Retail Employee Safety Council gathered to focus on strategies to bolster the sector against intensifying abuse, assaults and harassment in retail. In its second meeting, worker and employer representatives noted prevention tactics used throughout November to deter retail crime offenders, including continuing the industry “No one Deserves a Serve” Campaign, training and data collection and reporting to strengthen insights that will help improve employee safety.

MEDIA RELEASE | Shoppers urged to keep their cool this Christmas

The call from the SDA – the union for retail, fast food and warehouse workers – comes as recent research shows that one in three retail workers in Australia and New Zealand are considering leaving their job due to theft and violence.

MEDIA RELEASE | Children at work, children at risk

More than half a million children work in Australia, most of them in fast food, retail and hospitality. However, they have little protection from harassment, sexual and otherwise, from adults working alongside them.

MEDIA RELEASE | Retail Employee Safety Council

Representatives from the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employees Association (SDA) and the Australian Retailers Association (ARA) met in Melbourne today to reaffirm their shared commitment to protecting retail workers against assaults and harassment in the workplace.

MEDIA RELEASE | Sexual harassment rife in retail work

Sexual harassment is pervasive and persistent in retail work, with young women most at risk, as revealed in a new report by researchers from the Australian Centre for Gender Equality and Inclusion @ Work published by Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety (ANROWS).

MEDIA RELEASE | Adult Age, Adult Wage

Today the SDA, the union for workers in retail and fast food, will launch a groundbreaking case in the Fair Work Commission to abolish junior rates for workers aged 18 years and older.

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