@Michelle All talk, promises not kept, failure to provide work, push the start date back over and over, ask you to do an induction outside of work hours, which is paid time. Push back the start date of work for over a month only to cancel it the day before you were supposed to start. Then offer to “help you out because you’ve been stuffed around”… never to hear from them again. Garbage.
She attempted contact, I asked to be replied to in writing. I called her after waiting for some time. She told me I had the wrong attitude for wanting to be paid for work I was directed to do.
Edited additional comments. I was contacted by Owen Hickey. He offered me $70 and a verbal apology for the time they had wasted but it was in exchange for the removal of my review. He said when I take the reviews down they will pay me. I asked how can this agreement be guaranteed, can it be put in writing? He answered no it won’t be put in writing for fear of me screenshotting it and adding it to another review. I said that anything said on the phone is not guaranteed. Therefore I refused his offer.
Owen was convinced that people are not paid for inductions. But it is a compulsory part of working on construction sites in many cases. Here is an excerpt from the fair work website “What must I be paid for?
Your employer must pay you for all hours you work and any compulsory time spent for work.”…
This means, if it is required (compulsory) that you complete an induction before attending a work site, particularly when you are directed to do it then you must be paid for the time spent doing that induction. Everything on the fair work website is derived from legislation of the Fair Work Act.
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