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Pepsi offers workers chance to change holidays to cultural ones

PepsiCo employee Larissa Thamniamjad

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The multinational soft-drink company PepsiCo says it wants to give its Australian employees the option of exchanging some public holidays for more culturally appropriate days to celebrate.

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