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Gold Walkley Award-winning reporter Adele Ferguson returns to Four Corners with an investigation into the 7-Eleven business empire with revelations of dodgy bookkeeping, blackmail and the mass underpayment of its workforce.7-Eleven is the business built for our convenience: selling the staples of life like milk, bread and phone cards, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. With more than 600 stores around Australia, they serve around six customers every second and generate more than $3 billion in sales."Welcome to a world of opportunity, brought to you by 7-Eleven, the brand that's world famous." - 7-Eleven marketingThousands of people around the country are employed in 7-Eleven stores, run by franchisees. But as this joint Four Corners/Fairfax investigation reveals, it's a business model that relies on the exploitation of its workforce."They can't run 7-Eleven as profitably and successfully as they have without letting this happen. The reality is it's built on something not much different from slavery." - 7-Eleven insiderBased on painstaking research and insider accounts, the investigation has been months in the making |
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Closed captioning in English |
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Broadcast 2015-08-31 at 20:30:00 |
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Classification: NC |
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7-Eleven, Inc.
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Accounting fraud.
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Employees -- Wages.
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Wages -- Minimum wage.
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Foreign workers -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Foreign workers -- Social conditions.
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Australia.
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Streaming video
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O'Brien, Kerry, host
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Ferguson, Adele, reporter
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Alawala, Pranay, contributor
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Fels, Allan, contributor
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Fraser, Michael, contributor
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Garcia, Gabriel, contributor
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James, Natalie, contributor
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Kelly, Sean, contributor
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Prakash Kumar, contributor
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Levitt, Stewart, contributor
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Pendem, Sam, contributor
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Radcha, Yashwanth, contributor
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Thodi, Mohamed Rashid Ullat, contributor
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Withers, Russ, contributor
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