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Woolworths has suspended arrangements with one of its main suppliers after Australia’s peak union body claimed the abattoir made COVID-positive employees at a South Australian facility keep on working.
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Qantas has posted a full-year net loss of $1.73 billion while Woolworths announced a $2.1 billion profit, reflecting the pain and gain the pandemic is serving up to some of Australia’s biggest corporates.
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Retail giant Woolworths will limit customers to four packs of toilet paper per transaction, after supermarket shelves were stripped in recent days because of a coronavirus-led panic.
Woolworths has upped its estimated staff underpayments to $315 million and says the final amount could still be higher once a review into the nine-year scandal is complete.
Wesfarmers has revealed it underpaid staff at its Target stores by $9m, on top of $15m in other underpayments, becoming the latest Australian company caught up in a growing wage theft scandal the shoppies’ union has branded a “full blown epidemic”.
Woolworths has told investors it expects the bill from its wages underpayment scandal to come in at the lower end of the $200 million to $300 million range it previously flagged, even as more cases come to light.
