tld_06
Likes Bikes and Dirt
Alright, google hasn't brought up an answer so I'm throwing the gauntlet to a Smorgasbord of forums.
Found a job through a mate late last year, one of the bigger hifi white goods franchise chains. Rock up for the interview and all is dandy, get told I have a job. Start the following week without signing any contracts, giving any information. Comes up to first pay day and there's no money for me. 'Youve been working here less than a full week, I'll pay all of it next week.'
All good I say, being the first week trying to learn the systems, getting to know everyone I just shrug it off. Working my guts out, delivering 600L fridges on my own up stairs, etc, the usual hard slog for the new employee.
The next week comes up, still no signing of papers or giving of tax file numbers. Payday arrives, and I'm all excited. "Sorry, don't have the money today, sales have been down."
Right. Two days pass and the boss calls me over. 'Time to do your pay'. I proudly hand over my time sheet with 50odd hours on the board. Here he tallies up the hours then hands over a measily $540. I queried him on it. His explanation "oh, I only pay one week at a time".
Boy did that wipe the smile from my face. But still it was work, and consistent work had been few and far in between for me. So I sucked it up and continued on.
This repeated itself for the 8 weeks, with me asking for payslips almost daily, to his reply of "ok mate". $540 here, $400 there. All paid in cash out of the till. (Yeah I feel pretty stupid now). He assured me this was all ok.
Still getting charged a 30 minute break every day even though there was no break and most days didn't even get to eat lunch.
Now all of this came to a head last Thursday, when I found out that I'm officially off the books. And that my tax wasn't getting paid, and that I was getting paid $10 per hour under the award rate, hence no tax.
That's a big issue for me, especially since Centrelink were on me a few years back about tax issues with my account.
Now you might tell me to suck it up, this happens everywhere, but the issues now is that I'm A: owed a weeks worth of wages, and B: injured from lifting a fridge in to a van without help.
But here's the kicker, I currently am in possession of his motorbike that I had picked up weeks earlier. We agreed that I would pay it off when I had the cash ($1000).
What in the bloody hell do I do here? I have no receipt for the bike, so can't get it registered. But I do have all the paperwork.
Now the boss won't reply to anything in writing and the bike is sitting at my mechanics. He will not commit to any of my offers in writing, and I won't have anything to do with verbal offers.
Obviously there are the authorities/governing bodies to inform if it all turns to shit, but are there any other options here?
Opinions, constructive criticism welcome; harden the f**k ups aren't.
Found a job through a mate late last year, one of the bigger hifi white goods franchise chains. Rock up for the interview and all is dandy, get told I have a job. Start the following week without signing any contracts, giving any information. Comes up to first pay day and there's no money for me. 'Youve been working here less than a full week, I'll pay all of it next week.'
All good I say, being the first week trying to learn the systems, getting to know everyone I just shrug it off. Working my guts out, delivering 600L fridges on my own up stairs, etc, the usual hard slog for the new employee.
The next week comes up, still no signing of papers or giving of tax file numbers. Payday arrives, and I'm all excited. "Sorry, don't have the money today, sales have been down."
Right. Two days pass and the boss calls me over. 'Time to do your pay'. I proudly hand over my time sheet with 50odd hours on the board. Here he tallies up the hours then hands over a measily $540. I queried him on it. His explanation "oh, I only pay one week at a time".
Boy did that wipe the smile from my face. But still it was work, and consistent work had been few and far in between for me. So I sucked it up and continued on.
This repeated itself for the 8 weeks, with me asking for payslips almost daily, to his reply of "ok mate". $540 here, $400 there. All paid in cash out of the till. (Yeah I feel pretty stupid now). He assured me this was all ok.
Still getting charged a 30 minute break every day even though there was no break and most days didn't even get to eat lunch.
Now all of this came to a head last Thursday, when I found out that I'm officially off the books. And that my tax wasn't getting paid, and that I was getting paid $10 per hour under the award rate, hence no tax.
That's a big issue for me, especially since Centrelink were on me a few years back about tax issues with my account.
Now you might tell me to suck it up, this happens everywhere, but the issues now is that I'm A: owed a weeks worth of wages, and B: injured from lifting a fridge in to a van without help.
But here's the kicker, I currently am in possession of his motorbike that I had picked up weeks earlier. We agreed that I would pay it off when I had the cash ($1000).
What in the bloody hell do I do here? I have no receipt for the bike, so can't get it registered. But I do have all the paperwork.
Now the boss won't reply to anything in writing and the bike is sitting at my mechanics. He will not commit to any of my offers in writing, and I won't have anything to do with verbal offers.
Obviously there are the authorities/governing bodies to inform if it all turns to shit, but are there any other options here?
Opinions, constructive criticism welcome; harden the f**k ups aren't.
