Cleaning contractor faces investigation
A Melbourne-based cleaning contractor is reportedly facing investigation into claims of “massive wage theft”.
21 February, 2017A Melbourne-based cleaning contractor is reportedly facing investigation into claims of “massive wage theft”.
21 February, 2017Almost 150 cleaners at Canberra Hospital have been awarded a bonus after having their pay frozen for almost five years.
14 February, 2017The Australian has revealed more than 1500 migrant visa-holders working as cleaners at the Oaks Hotels and Resorts chain were ripped off by almost $2 million in a year.
9 November, 2016‘The ACT government has renewed a school cleaning contract to a company accused of underpaying and taking advantage of refugee workers, without waiting for the results of its own internal investigation’, reported The Canberra Times on 22 June 2016.
28 June, 2016United Voice has blamed the government’s annulment of the Commonwealth cleaning services guidelines for the four year wage freeze currently affecting cleaners at Parliament House.
17 May, 2016United Voice has succeeded in protecting cleaners rights following a decision to terminate agreements United Voice claims were signed by cleaners who didn’t understand English.
27 April, 2016Unions say that conditions and pay are under threat for hundreds of school and hospital cleaners in Canberra as the government moves to an outside manager.
27 April, 2016Union urges all parliamentarians, ‘regardless of their political affiliations’, to support bill, which the Labor Party will introduce this March.
25 February, 2016The Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) has held informal merger talks with United Voice, the cleaners’ union, which could see the emergence of a second ‘super union’.
22 February, 2016One of Sydney’s largest cleaning companies, BIC Cleaning Services, has been accused of systematically underpaying its cleaners by almost half a million dollars, reported the ABC on 16 December
17 December, 2015Australia’s growing health care and social assistance industry is to be the focus of a new national campaign by the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO).
16 December, 2015Parliament House cleaners are taking industrial action today in their battle for fair pay. The cleaners are banning the cleaning of all bathrooms and toilet facilities at Parliament House this week, says United Voice (UV).
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