Class Actions Info Night - South Australia Sunday Penalty Rates

Name: Class Actions Info Night - South Australia Sunday Penalty Rates
Start: 2026-05-13T19:00:00+09:30
End: 2026-05-13T20:00:00+09:30
Location: The Good Social, 307 Wright Street, Adelaide

Schedule

Wed May 13 2026 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC+09:30

Location

The Good Social, 307 Wright Street, Adelaide | Adelaide, SA

This information night is for Woolworths, Big W, Coles, McDonald’s and Hungry Jacks workers who worked one or more sundays between the start of 2020 and the end of 2023. As we will provide supper and light refreshments, please RSVP to [email protected]
RAFFWU is the union of class actions. We investigated and helped launch the historic class action against Domino’s Pizza in 2019. We led the way with the McDonald’s rest breaks class action in 2021 – after winning our own case in 2020. We are now leading again with class actions across a series of South Australian employers for denying workers their public holiday rights on Sundays.
RAFFWU identified that many South Australian retail and fast food workers had been entitled to public holiday penalty rates for their shifts on Sundays. This is because legislation made all Sundays a public holiday in South Australia until 31 December 2023. The Labor Government, backed in by the SDA, changed the law which means since 2024 the right to public holiday penalty rates on Sunday was abolished. Our cases focus on Sunday work and Sunday leave from before 2024.
We took our investigation to Shine Lawyers. Over the last six months, Shine Lawyers have launched class actions against Woolworths, Big W, Coles, McDonald’s and Hungry Jacks to recover the penalty rates not paid to workers. Annual leave should also not have been deducted from non-casual workers on a Sunday since they were entitled to be absent on a public holiday without loss of pay.
We are the leading union on class actions and the fighting union for retail and fast food workers. Find out more about the class actions and about RAFFWU at our special information evening.
RAFFWU is the fighting union for all retail and fast food workers in South Australia. We launched in 2016 after exposing SDA had cut penalty rates, casual loadings, overtime pay and many other rights of workers across the country. Since 2017 we have restored the penalty rates on weeknights and weekends at Woolworths, Coles, McDonald’s, Hungry Jacks and many other retail and fast food workplaces. This has returned over $1 Billion per year to workers. We’ve returned many other conditions too.