Security guards, cleaners and supermarket workers nominated for first Fair Pay Agreements

Security guards, cleaners and supermarket workers nominated for first Fair Pay Agreements
Pattrick Smellie
By Pattrick Smellie June 25 (BusinessDesk) - Peak trade unions are targeting security guards, supermarket workers and cleaners as the first lowly-paid sectors where new legislation to create nationally binding, sector-wide Fair Pay Agreements should be used. Some 44,000 people work as cleaners, 6,500 work as security guards, while more than 200,000 people work in the retail sector, of which supermarkets are a significant subset. "Making sure FPAs are brought in and done properly is the single biggest thing this 'well-being' government...

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