Sold out: quarter of a million workers underpaid in union deals
Australian workers in retail and fast-food outlets, including Woolworths, Hungry Jack's and KFC, are being underpaid more than $300 million a year, in a national wages scandal centred on deals struck with the shop assistants union.
A Fairfax Media investigation has uncovered new evidence that some of Australia's biggest and best-known employers are paying many of their employees less than the award, the basic wages safety net.