Half of restaurants breaking the law?

Sammy, economists say it’s pretty impossible to bring unemployment below 4% because that’s the number of people moving from one job to another, or between jobs for some other reason. It’s not because 4% won’t work.

I don’t mind doing crap jobs either, but crap pay sucks, and people who don’t pay the crap pay they owe you sucks huge!!

I like doing crap jobs. It gives me something to whine about.

Working a job like that is a choice for locals. Don’t like it? Don’t do it. I have done my share of crap jobs, and they motivated me to get a non-crap job.

If businesses want to import labour because they genuinely can’t procure it locally, then I don’t see the problem. As long as the people who get brought in are treated reasonably, it’s a fantastic opportunity for them to join our community.

As an ex-chef – I can say that its not just immigrants – its across the board. As with me – if you dont like the conditions and pay – get a new job in a different area.

One job I worked cost me 18 months annual leave (insolvency practitioner payed me about 12% of what I was entitled to – after taking their cut) – my taxes were never paid by the employer (despite my pay slips saying so) and I got ZERO cents of super (and never will) paid.

That was pretty much the straw that broke the camels back.

pfft to immigrants – its everyone.

I would have thought that was the norm across hospitality, I dont think there has ever been a soul that purported it was any better.

I know someone who worked in a high profile fruit market, and — years later — they’re still waiting for their super entitlements. So, I don’t think poor working conditions are exclusive to restaurants.

If they audited restaurants ANYWHERE, you’d probably get soemthing like those figures… I thought that all restaurants were dodgy from their creation, and it had to take something special to rise above that.

Even if they started to charge (even more) exorbitant prices, you can bet the owners will pocket the difference anyway, JB.

Alternatively we could say that many local restauranteurs are too cheap to pay decent wages that anyone would be willing to work for given a choice, so they have to drag in people who don’t have a choice.