Newsagency businesses are covered by the General Retail Award. In the Award there is this coverage relating to Sunday penalty rates.
I mention this today as two employees of a newsagency (with which I have no connection) contacted me this week about their pay for Sundays. My answer to them was there same as I give every current or former newsagency asking abut pay – contact Fair Work and go through their process to determine if you have been paid correctly.
In their situation they were being paid cash in hand at a rate that was higher than what they would have got had it been taxed but at a lower cost to the business had it been paid at the required gross rate and on the books. Also, being cash in hand there was no super contribution.
With employee entitlements being in the news so much recently – 7-Eleven, Woolworths, the ABC and others – the last thing we need is the actions of some reflecting on the channel.