Saturday June 17th
from 10am to 11am
SPOTLIGHT store
Playne Street
Frankston

Vigil about wage cuts and June 28th stop work rally

Afterwards a planning meeting for upcoming events Frankston Activist Group for Workers Rights.

11am-1pm
Frankston Library
60 Playne Street Frankston.

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Spotlight's owners welcome the Federal Government's new 'WorkChoice' Industrial Relations Laws
Do you?

Consider the following facts:
• Spotlight has about 5000 workers at nearly 100 stores nationwide
• Spotlight’s sales amount to about $300 million per year
• Two businessmen own Spotlight, Ruben and Morry Fraid
• Since 1973 their fortune has grown to $340 million
• The brothers are jointly ranked at number 86 on Business Review Weekly’s Rich 200 individual Australians list
• Spotlight’s current minimum award rate is $14.28 per hour
• Current employees get paid overtime and penalty rates if they work Thursday nights, weekends and public holidays
• Spotlight is introducing an individual contract, its Australian Workplace Agreement, for all new employees
• The new rate, for all hours worked, is $14.30 per hour
• The AWA eliminates shift loadings, rest breaks, bonuses, incentive payments and annual leave loadings
• unions estimated a loss of $90 per week for some workers
• Spotlight’s AWA is in line with all legislated requirements.

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call to stop work for worker's rights
June 28th 2006