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Rights at Work campaign - Spotlight

“Workers at Spotlight will be given a pay increase of just two cents an hour in exchange for losing entitlements like penalty rates, rest breaks and overtime.

The Australian-owned chain of fabric and homewares stores employs 6000 workers and rakes in over $600 million a year. But new staff will lose up to $90 a week under the terms of Spotlight’s new AWA individual contracts.

Support the Spotlight staff. Tell Spotlight’s owners Morry Fraid and Ruben Fried how you feel about their company’s actions.

Spotlight’s management has argued that they were given the green light to rip off workers by the Howard Government. “Our AWA obviously meets all of the Work Choices requirements,” they told AAP. “We are not the ones writing the laws,” they told the Herald Sun. They’re right. The new IR laws encourage businesses to cut their employees’ take home pay and conditions. But is this how Australian businesses should treat their staff?

Tell Spotlight: Just because the IR laws let you to rip off workers doesn’t mean you have to. www.rightsatwork.com.au/campaigns/spotlight

Many thanks,
Sharan Burrow, Greg Combet,
and the Rights at Work campaign team.”

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