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Woolworths backs down after refusing to raise pay – The Australian Financial Review
After months of resistance and launching its own legal action to ensure a delay, the group will now offer wage increases to 130,000 staff.
Following overnight talks with the SDA, Woolworths general manager of workplace relations Hayley Baxendale said it had reached “a mutually agreeable outcome with the SDA, which will provide a much quicker resolution for our team in these unsettling times”.
We care deeply for our team and feel that delivering these pay increases early without lengthy legal proceedings is just the right way to resolve the issue and move forward,” she said.
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