Unpaid Work - Who Benefits?
The SDA is prosecuting a number of major campaigns at the moment – Protect Penalty Rates, At What Cost? And 100% Pay at 18. These are all important campaigns and we will continue to fight the good fight. However, on the basis that we can both walk and chew gum, we have another impo ...
Penalty Rates - Your Say
The Fair Work Commission asked why we need to protect penalty rates. Here’s what you said. The Fair Work Commission is currently reviewing penalty rates in the hospitality and retail sectors. The proposal on the table is to cut the current Sunday rate – a move that would devastate the h ...
Media Release: 26 March 2016
PM can’t remain silent on exploitation of 7-Eleven workers. The Prime Minister must immediately adopt the key recommendations of the Senate Report which looked into the 7-Eleven scandal in order to stop the continuing exploitation of workers in Australia. The report, A National D ...
Masters Easter Saturday Update
Unfortunately, Masters have chosen to interpret the Enterprise Agreement differently this year from previous years regarding the status of Easter Saturday in Western Australia. Despite strident representations from the SDA seeking for them to change their position as of right now, the matter remain ...
ASKSDA
The SDA has trialled having the ASKSDA service available on Saturdays for around 18 months. In that time, usage has been very low, with no signs that it is increasing. As such, we have decided that members’ resources are better allocated elsewhere and so the ASKSDA service will no longer ...