Coles manager asks staff to work for pizza instead of income | Perth Now

COLES is under attack over allegations of “appalling” working conditions, after a manger asked staff to work for pizza instead of money on a Sunday, with employees claiming the directive would have been a result of pressure from the executive level at the supermarket giant.

A report by ABC Radio Perth’s Geoff Hutchinson discovered that a manager of a Western Australian Coles store posted a notice to staff asking them to work on a Sunday stocktake not for extra income, or time in lieu — but for pizza.

The strange proposal came three weeks after many part-time workers around the nation lost income through penalty rate cuts.

After the notice was posted, several staff members contacted the WA branch of the Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers Association (SDA), the union for workers in retail, fast food and warehousing to complain.

SDA state secretary Peter O’Keeffe told Hutchinson’s program the proposal was “unacceptable”.

“Obviously this manager has decided for reasons of his own to request people to come and work unpaid,” he said.

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