Supermarkets count legal cost of underpayments | Flight delay compensation | Post to US declines

Woolworths and Coles expect hundreds and million of dollars in costs following alleged staff underpayment court case; the government calls for public to have their say on aviation and the possibility of compensation for delays and cancellations; and the world sends less mail to the US.

00:00 Australia’s two biggest supermarket operators could be up for a 1-billion-dollar bill relating to historical underpayments of some staff
01:28 Shares of both supermarket operators were mixed today; tech stocks did well, but energy companies fell
02:12 ANZ has agreed to pay NZD$3.2 million dollars after admitting to breaching fair dealing laws there over a decade
02:52 Postal deliveries from around the world to the US have dropped by 80 per cent in the past week, according to the UN’s postal agency
03:21 A new lifeline for Western Australia’s remote communities touched down in Perth today, with the arrival of Virgin’s first Embraer jet manufactured in Brazil
05:19 The federal government has issued a call for the public to have its say on flight delays and cancellations

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