Archive for March, 2009

Union lays into store owner

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

From the Geelong Advertiser, By Rebecca Tucker

A union has labelled a Geelong store owner “one of the worst in the country”. Moorabool St 7-Eleven is being investigated by the Workplace Ombudsman following claims it under-pays staff.

Victoria’s fast food and retail workers union, UNITE, yesterday launched a new attack on the store’s franchisee, Eddie Chan, claiming he told workers “that if they want to have security guards present on Saturday nights they will have to pay for it out of their own wages”.

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