atw: Re: Was: ..truth and logic now Ambit contract

To Terry:

Unfortunately, with Australian employment law as it stands, independent
of the contract, if you are paid 'by the hour', then, at law, all the
employer is duty bound to do is give you one hour's notice. If the
contract requires that you give more notice, have a chat with your local
chamber magistrate about equalising the risk to that of the erstwhile
employer. A chamber magistrate does not charge, but equally, may not be
an expert - the upside is that you may be directed to a low cost expert.
Alternately, visit the law centre at any local university - most law
schools now require students to get practice in real law before they
graduate - and all final advice is checked by a qualified practitioner.

 

To Mary:

Employers, even state employers [=government] in Australia are apt to
read the fine print without too much regard for humanity. 

I was recently hired by the NSW Police to write training and learning
modules for implementation of a new computer OS and SW rollout. The
training schedules had all been set in concrete before anyone was hired.
All the current PCs needed to be cleaned and stuffed with the new OS and
SW; I offered to help - I cleaned and restuffed more PCs per hour than
their in-house 'professionals'. I was told that there would be three TWs
producing the T & L material. I saw the trainers arriving and the
delivery time caroming. I worked all sorts of hours and produced all the
materials - the other two TWs never materialised. I had the boss
breathing down my neck because I wasn't taking lunch-breaks and working
regular hours. Within a week of my completing the T & L materials, they
said that they'd run out of money, Ta Ta. And all that anguish for just
AUS$31.16 per hour.

 

Brian

 




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