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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Business
Jonathan Barrett Senior business reporter

Woolworths employee on $26 an hour confronts board at AGM over millions paid to executives

A Woolworths supermarket in Melbourne
Many supermarket employees earn a base wage of just over $26 an hour, about 40 cents above the minimum award. Photograph: Joel Carrett/AAP

A Woolworths employee has confronted the supermarket’s board over the huge disparity between her $26 hourly rate, which she describes as “not a living wage”, and the high salaries of executives.

Jo Wright, who works on the supermarket floor in a New South Wales southern highlands store, told the company’s annual general meeting on Thursday she was subject to an unfair rostering system and was not remunerated properly for her experience.

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