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Health experts back treating fruit juice as soft drink as industry fights star rating change

Advertisement A shake-up to Australia’s health star rating system has the nation’s citrus growers juiced over concerns a bottle of 100 per cent OJ could soon be slapped with a rating below that of Diet Coke. But health experts, including 2020 Australian of the Year Dr James Muecke, said it is time the country reckoned with the reality that fruit juice is “in essence, a soft drink, just not a bubbly one”. It may taste good, but juice is full of sugar. Credit:iStock That reckoning may come to pass on Friday when members of the Australia and New Zealand Ministerial Forum on Food Regulation meet and are expected to vote on proposed changes that would remove the automatic five-star rating currently given to 100 per cent fruit juice. Water will retain its five-star rating.

Juice healthy star rating decision due

Growers look to retain piece rate work despite union push for minimum wages

Growers look to retain piece rate work despite union push for minimum wages Australian growers are pushing back against union moves to see minimum wage rates granted to fruit pickers and seasonal workers. The Australian Workers Union (AWU) announced on Wednesday that it would apply to the Fair Work Commission (FWC) to have the horticulture award amended to ensure workers received the minimum casual wage of $24.80 an hour. According to AWU national secretary Daniel Walton, growing evidence of systemic underpayments through the use of shady labour-hire firms showed minimum conditions for workers needed to be nailed down in law. But grower advocacy group FNQ Growers said putting a floor price under the piece rate in which workers are paid according to the amount of fruit or vegetables they pick effectively made it the same as an award rate.

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