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Following the state-wide rollout of the NSW Digital Driver Licence, Service NSW is committed to supporting licence checkers in their awareness and readiness to accept the Digital Driver Licence.   The NSW Digital Driver Licence is now available state-wide  From Monday 28 October, regulation came into force allowing all NSW drivers to legally present their Digital Driver Licence as proof of age, proof of identity and right to drive.  The state-wide version of the Digital Driver Licence is now available to download on the Service NSW app. On Sunday 3 November, the NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian and the Minister for Customer Service Victor Dominello officially announced the state-wide rollout of the NSW Digital Driver Licence. Since the regulation came into effect on Monday 28 October, there has been over 600,000 downloads of the NSW Driver Digital Licence, with 97 percent of customers giving it the thumbs up. You and your businesses…

11/05/2019 CSNews CINCINNATI — Just a few weeks after completing its acquisition of Cumberland Farms, EG Group is on the move. The United Kingdom-based company — which entered the U.S. in April 2018 when it acquired The Kroger Co.’s portfolio of 760 convenience stores — will be moving its U.S. headquarters from Cincinnati to Westborough, Mass., home of Cumberland Farms’ office and warehouse facility. The move will be effective Jan. 1, 2020. “The Cumberland Farms office and warehouse facility includes a vertically integrated culinary center, fuel hauling and product distribution center, and a world-class office space offering ample room for growth,” stated Mohsin Issa, founder and co-CEO of EG Group. “Knowing we have outgrown the Cincinnati location and understanding the importance of having the entire team in one place for collaboration and partnership, we believe it is in the best interest of the business to support the 1,680 stores operating in 31 states from this facility.” EG Group…

Anna Patty October 29, 2019 The Age Retail workers are swapping name tags with colleagues to avoid harassment by customers as employers fear staff will walk off the job because of growing threats to their safety. Nyakim Nyuon, 21, who has worked in the fast food industry for three years, said she has been harassed by customers who have tried to film her at work. She said her co-workers have swapped name tags after a customer stalked a colleague. “She ended up putting a fake name on her name tag,” Ms Nyuon said. “I’ve had customers filming me without my consent and being flirtatious in a gross way.” The Human Rights Commission (HRC) on Tuesday released findings of a national survey of 3413 retail, fast food and warehousing workers which found 39 per cent had experienced sexual harassment in the past five years and sexually explicit comments or unwelcome advancements…

Australian shoppers are being hit with a sneaky fee when they pay with EFTPOS, while retailers are not passing on falling costs to customers. What should be done to stop it? HAVE YOUR SAY Sophie Elsworth, National personal finance writer, News Corp Australia Network November 2, 2019 Saving up can be a hard slog; but there are a few easy ways to reach those savings goals faster. Exclusive: Australians are being hit with a sneaky fee when they pay with EFTPOS. News Corp can reveal shops are charging as much as 1.75 per cent extra on every transaction — the equivalent of 6c for a $3.50 cup of coffee or 43c for a $25 meal. Customers often have no idea they’re being stung, with fees mounting as they favour cards for everyday purchases over cash. The slug comes as shoppers already face surcharges for paying with a credit or debit…

Vaping has been linked to nearly three dozen deaths to date, and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention is still unsure of what exactly is causing them. Some companies have attempted to market vaping products as healthier alternatives to smoking cigarettes, but many health experts reject this stance, and the Food and Drug Administration has not approved e-cigarette use as a method to quit smoking, according to Harvard Health Publishing. While much is still unknown about the effects vaping has on the body, the data that we already have suggest a connection between the trend and several serious health complications. “As the current cluster of lung diseases indicates, without regulation and quality control, a product that may seem safe today could be dangerously contaminated tomorrow,” Thomas Eissenberg, co-director for the Center for the Study of Tobacco Products, wrote for The Guardian. Here are nine alarming facts about vaping and…

EWIN HANNAN NOVEMBER 2, 2019 The Australian  Fair Work Ombudsman Sandra Parker will review the agency’s operations in the wake of a raft of massive wage underpayments by large companies, declaring the ­extent and complexity of self-disclosures by big employers is “far greater than we could ever have envisaged”.  Signalling the agency would seek further funding, Ms Parker said the regulator’s resources had in the past been primarily focused on compliance by small businesses, but there had already been 22 separate large underpayments by big companies reported this year. “It’s tipping us into the corporate regulator space and we have never been in that space before,’’ she said after Woolworths ­revealed it had underpaid almost 6000 workers by up to $300m over nine years. “All these companies are coming forward, with their large ­underpayments, complex company structures. We are getting massive self-disclosures that is putting us into the realm of being a…