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Optus backpays over $7.8 million to underpaid employees

Inside Retail

Optus hired these employees as retail consultants and store managers around Australia between January 2014 and March 2020. The backpayment includes more than $5.4 million in wages and entitlements and more than $2.4 million in superannuation and interest.

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Former Din Tai Fung operators fined $4 million for employment breaches

Inside Retail

The workers were mostly visa holders from Indonesia and China, mainly on student or employer-sponsored visas, and engaged in casual roles. Some wrongdoings met the definition of ‘serious contraventions’, which resulted in a tenfold increase in penalties.

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Taylor Swift offers a masterclass in marketing. Here’s what retailers can learn

Inside Retail

Rather than investing in and delivering on their brand promise, they focus on other, often supplementary, marketing strategies such as launching engaging campaigns, brands may believe they can substitute competence with warmth. Swift’s brand promise has always centred on quality products.

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Dusk CEO Peter King resigns, sparking transition plan

Inside Retail

Dusk’s chairman, John Joyce, said King has developed an “excellent” exclusive team and has made an “invaluable” contribution since 2014. We are thankful for his outstanding leadership and the professional manner in which he has engaged in a considered process to allow for his own succession in due course.”

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Australia Post names new retail divisional chief

Inside Retail

She was CEO from 2010 to 2014. Her appointment to Australia Post follows Leonie Valentine’s commencement as executive GM customer experience and digital this month, and Tanny Mangos’s appointment as executive GM of community, sustainability and stakeholder engagement in December.

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Starbucks signs Enforceable Undertaking, backpays staff $4.5 million

Inside Retail

Starbucks cooperation Fair Work Ombudsman Anna Booth said an EU was appropriate because Starbucks had cooperated and demonstrated a strong commitment to rectifying underpayments, including devoting significant resources to engaging independent experts to oversee its rectification. ” she said. This figure includes more than $4.34

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Belles Hot Chicken talks crowdfunding campaign and global growth plans

Inside Retail

Since launching in Melbourne in 2014, Belles Hot Chicken (Belles) has grown to six existing locations, including a new opening in Bondi, Sydney, a few weeks ago, and is now looking to raise between $1 million and $2 million to fund further expansion. The full shareholder offer will become available once the EOI closes on November 13.

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