Woolworths casuals 'short-changed by recognition payment'

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June 6 2020 - 4:30am
UNFAIR DEAL: Jo Hardy, with her four-year-old son Kale, has said the payment sent the wrong message about work put in by casual staff. Picture: Kate Healy.
UNFAIR DEAL: Jo Hardy, with her four-year-old son Kale, has said the payment sent the wrong message about work put in by casual staff. Picture: Kate Healy.

It may have been intended as a simple goodwill gesture. But instead a "recognition payment" offered to Woolworths staff who have put in extra hours during the COVID-19 restrictions has stirred resentment among casuals.

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Jolyon Attwooll

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Reporter at the Ballarat Courier. Ex-Londoner and former commissioning editor at The Telegraph (the UK broadsheet, not the Sydney tabloid).

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