Buwa Basebetsi: Woolies boss was paid 1,300 times as much as a shop floor worker

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Here are two unsettling facts apparently meant to assure us that the market for labour is working well. A shop floor worker at Woolworths would have had to work for more than three years to earn as much money as the group’s CEO Roy Bagattini made in one day.

25 Oct 2024 English South Africa Non-Profit · News

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