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Wedding dress designer George Elsissa fined for ripping off staff

Inside Retail

Sydney-based wedding dress designer 10 Foster Street needs to pay $51,604 in penalty and back pay entitlements after failing to act on Fair Work Ombudsman’s (FWO) compliance notices. The case concerns four former workers employed in various periods between June 2015 and September 2021.

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Blue Sky Kids Land fined $5 million for exploiting Chinese workers

Inside Retail

The company previously operated stores in Sydney, NSWs Central Coast, Newcastle and Canberra, according to the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO). Q Fay Trading, a company operated by Gu and Yang which imported and supplied products to the stores, also received a $44,100 fine. The penalties include a $4.3

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How to Orchestrate to Eliminate Regional Payment Barriers for Ecommerce Success

Retail TouchPoints

Regional payments can be complex. For retailers and regional payments, consumer payment preferences play one piece, while checkout optimization and diversification play another. The question is, how can retailers conduct everything together to make ‘music’ and orchestrate regional payments for ecommerce success?

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Why Retailers Need Cloud-Native Payment Orchestration: 5 Tips to Flexible, Scalable, Customized Payment Infrastructure

Retail TouchPoints

Why is payment orchestration suddenly getting so much attention? Payment orchestration is no longer optional. Surprisingly, how retailers manage and handle payments has not changed; it’s decisively stuck 20 years in the past. To ultimately transform, retailers need flexible, scalable and customizable payment infrastructure.

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Cryptocurrencies are the Future of Payments: Here is How Merchants Fit In

Retail TouchPoints

Reinventing Payments: The Entry of Bitcoin. Bitcoin began as a concept to revolutionize payments in 2008, and today stands at a total valuation of more than $1.1 Bitcoin began as a concept to revolutionize payments in 2008, and today stands at a total valuation of more than $1.1

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Uniqlo underpaid staff, remediation underway

Inside Retail

An email from the brand to a former employee, shared with Inside Retail , shows Uniqlo identified “a number of errors” in the calculation of wages and superannuation payments between July 1, 2015 and June 30 last year. ” The post Uniqlo underpaid staff, remediation underway appeared first on Inside Retail.

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After Declining Amex, Ebay to Begin Accepting Venmo

Retail TouchPoints

Ebay has drawn a line in the sand when it comes to payments. After very publicly announcing last week that it would no longer accept American Express due to “unacceptably high fees,” today the online marketplace said it will be adding Venmo as a payment option in the U.S.