7-Eleven have recently won the “Established Franchisor of the Year” award at the MYOB Excellence in Franchising Awards ceremony hosted by the Franchise Council of Australia. UNITE is calling on 7-Eleven to hand it back!

7-Eleven franchisees have recently been forced to back pay 168 workers more than $162,000. At the same time the Fair Work Ombudsman has launched a Victorian state wide audit into the company’s employment practices because of widespread underpayment. UNITE estimates that hundreds of 7-Eleven workers across the country have been seriously underpaid for many years.

UNITE Secretary Anthony Main said “When I first read this news I thought it was a joke. 7-Eleven have been all over the news in the past year for all the wrong reasons. It is common knowledge that they are far from a model employer.”

7-Eleven’s financial success is based on the super-exploitation of mainly international students. Both Head Office and the franchisees are implicated in these scams.

As far as UNITE is concerned, they only award &-Eleven deserve is that of Australia’s dodgiest employer!

If the Franchise Council of Australia (FCA) think 7-Eleven are a model company what does that say about the rest of their members?

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