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Superannuation is a fundamental part of your rights at work that the SDA has and always will strive to protect and improve. To drive greater compliance by employers the SDA is pushing for legislative change to ensure superannuation is paid on pay day.

Union win: 3.5% wage increase from 1 July

Unions win 3.5% pay rise for retail, fast food and pharmacy workers in 2025.

MEDIA RELEASE | Unions Call on Government to Use Its Buying Power to Demand Ethical Behaviour from Big Tech

The Australian Council of Trade Unions, the Shop, Distributive & Allied Employees’ Association and the Transport Workers Union are calling for the re-elected Labor Government to use existing Australian Commonwealth Procurement Rules to prevent public contracts going to multinational corporations like Amazon unless they meet basic standards of ethical conduct both here and overseas.

MEDIA RELEASE | Adult age adult wage – SDA seeks Albanese government support for adult wages for 18-21 year olds

The SDA, which represents more young workers than any other union, is seeking support from the Albanese government for its application to the Fair Work Commission for adult wages to be paid for 18-21 year old workers in retail, fast food and pharmacy.

Young workers deserve safe & fair workplaces

The SDA has a range of initiatives designed to improve the pay and conditions of young workers and to provide fairer and safer workplaces for them.

MEDIA RELEASE | Retail workers welcome the Albanese government’s pledge to protect penalty rates

The SDA welcomes the commitment of the Albanese government, if re-elected, to legislate to protect penalty rates.

MEDIA RELEASE | Clerical workers could lose $7,000 in penalty rates as employer attack spreads

Australian Unions are today warning that employer attacks on penalty rates have spread beyond the retail sector to target workers in administration, banking and finance.

SDA files to secure a pay rise for retail & fast food workers in Fair Work Commission

The SDA calling for better wages and a genuine living wage for retail and fast food workers – you need and deserve a fair and decent pay rise in 2025.

COMMUNIQUE | Retail Employee Safety Council meets for a third time

The safety of retail staff in relation to knife crime and its impact on the wider community was the focus of the third meeting of the RESC.

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.

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