The Retail and Fast Food Workers Union allege Woolworths knowingly and deliberately mislead the Fair Work Commission by hiding the fact its staff would be significantly underpaid under submitted pay deals in 2012.
Retail and Fast Food Workers Union secretary Josh Cullinan claims that Woolworths swapped out rosters used to track the hours worked and pay rates awarded as compared to documents from 2009 in an attempt to manipulate the Fair Work Commission into “legalising” their wage theft.
Woolworths has hit back at the claims stating that they are unsubstantiated and that all of their employees were paid as organised with the fair work commission.
A new agreement with Shop, Distributive & Allied Employees Association has been under effect since 2019, but employees who worked under the old agreement have not received back pay.