“Countdown and Foodstuffs have confirmed that they’ll be ending the 10% bonus provided to essential workers during the level-4 lockdown beyond the coming week,” said Tali Williams, FIRST Union Secretary for Retail, Finance and Commerce. “This is a backwards step, and supermarket workers are understandably angry and feeling pretty crushed.” “After finally getting the recognition […]
FIRST Union is today calling for immediate Government intervention following revelations that Fletcher Building, one of the nation’s largest employers and a major benefactor of the Covid-19 wage subsidy, has misled workers over their eligibility for urgent financial assistance, used and abused a national crisis to reduce the employment conditions of its workers, and is […]
Fletcher Building’s attempt to underpay workers during the lockdown by proposing progressive reductions in income over the twelve weeks of the Government’s subsidy is appalling behaviour from a major employer and represents the worst kind of wage theft from workers, FIRST Union said today. “A company the size of Fletcher Building, with its lucrative Government […]
