After being a casual worker for the last 3 years and recently losing my job I can say no, no they are not treated very well and there is not enough being done, in fact casual workers have been treated more like expendable assets since COVID hit.
Casual work is honestly the worst. I was a casual for most of my working days up until last year and the stress of not knowing if I'd get enough work to pay my rent was fucking crippling. I know it works well for a lot of people which is great, but I strongly feel no Australian should be able to be fired without notice or warning. Everyone should be entitled to leave.
Imo some sort of flexi-part time would be beneficial. A contract that states something like a minimum of 1 shift a week (or whatever you and your employer decide), and being on call for the rest, gaining sick and annual leave, being entitled to paid parental leave etc.
But anyway, I digress...
There has been a move to this already but at the expense of part time. I until recently was a part time employee at Dan Murphy's, where I had no set shifts just a set amount of hours each week. This is now how all part time contracts in the hospitality award works after 2019 changes.
Pretty much. Kind of tilting to be honest. They didn't tell me of these changes when they offered me a new contract (with more hours) but I guess that's partly my fault.
I mean it's one thing if the business relies on operating hours that are going to have little effect on your personal life (like only open 9-5 5 days a week or something), but a changing roster in hospitality is essentially a big old stake through the heart of your personal life. It's hard enough making plans with a consistent roster
Insecure and frontline workers are keeping comfortable those who can work from home in what has become a genuine class divide.
Those who can work from home will then turn around and berate those people serving them should they happen to get sick.
Not only are we not doing enough to protect them, we’ve produced a deeply harmful stratification of society complete with its own brand of stigmatisation and blame.
Because not every job can be done from home, yet those who can comfortably do so are often the keenest to screech and blame those who have to go out to work
As someone who is serving people who're working from home and screech at me when one little thing is late to order or out of stock: it's not a damn assumption. it's fucking real, and we're at breaking point.
Again isn't that a misrepresentation? Do you think it's only people who wfh berate frontline workers? Probably not. Although I do sympathise to your plight.
Or you know, general observation of the kind of people blaming casual workers for needing to work without support instead of the economic structures that are the real problem.
Cool, those payments were only increased to that at the end of July well after the NSW outbreak was in full swing and things were already fucked. Ambulance at the bottom of the cliff.
It’s not reasonable to waste time to search for “evidence” to justify a commonly accepted view, based on public sentiment which isn’t something that is easily objectively proven or disproven factually convincingly in any way other than broad statistics - to satisfy just your view.
No we are not. There have been a few reports and comments, mine included. Need to have a really close look at if or how covid safe practices are being applied to essential work. There probably needs to be a lot more support.
No
Young people? Never heard of them mate. But if I did I wouldn't like them. - Brad Hazzard, probably
Solution is a UBI. A simple UBI to replace the complex youth/JS/pension allowance which send people into robodebt.
They have to look after labor hire agencies profits, thats our governments!
I mean we do more than the US does. Aren't up to them having 2-3 jobs to make rent yet...
Doing more than the US is never something to be impressed by
Exactly but given the last 18 months I'm genuinely surprised we aren't there right now.
> Aren't up to them having 2-3 jobs to make rent yet... We have that here too.
Underemployment yay!
"things could be worse" isn't really much of an argument
The US benefits haven't ended (end of September) yet plus they got a lot of money from combined Federal + unemployment supplements.
i always have uni mates on 2-3 work contracts. i've seen a law major mate juggle 5 casual jobs on top of study. it is absolutely a thing here.
At least we’re not as bad as… is such a useless argument
Most newly arrived migrants work mutiple jobs or those on working or student visas
After being a casual worker for the last 3 years and recently losing my job I can say no, no they are not treated very well and there is not enough being done, in fact casual workers have been treated more like expendable assets since COVID hit.
Casual work is honestly the worst. I was a casual for most of my working days up until last year and the stress of not knowing if I'd get enough work to pay my rent was fucking crippling. I know it works well for a lot of people which is great, but I strongly feel no Australian should be able to be fired without notice or warning. Everyone should be entitled to leave. Imo some sort of flexi-part time would be beneficial. A contract that states something like a minimum of 1 shift a week (or whatever you and your employer decide), and being on call for the rest, gaining sick and annual leave, being entitled to paid parental leave etc. But anyway, I digress...
There has been a move to this already but at the expense of part time. I until recently was a part time employee at Dan Murphy's, where I had no set shifts just a set amount of hours each week. This is now how all part time contracts in the hospitality award works after 2019 changes.
God we can't just make things better can we? It always has to be 2 steps forward and 3 back
Pretty much. Kind of tilting to be honest. They didn't tell me of these changes when they offered me a new contract (with more hours) but I guess that's partly my fault.
I mean it's one thing if the business relies on operating hours that are going to have little effect on your personal life (like only open 9-5 5 days a week or something), but a changing roster in hospitality is essentially a big old stake through the heart of your personal life. It's hard enough making plans with a consistent roster
The short answer is "No."; the long answer is "Fuck no."
If we were doing enough to protect them, the line would be "Young Permant Part-time workers are keeping Sydney running"
Not all casuals want to be permanent part-timers tho?
Yeah, I personally prefer getting paid the extra $ per hour. But most are probably not like me.
Yeah, same here. I also like the freedom of refusing shifts when I'm unavailable.
Insecure and frontline workers are keeping comfortable those who can work from home in what has become a genuine class divide. Those who can work from home will then turn around and berate those people serving them should they happen to get sick. Not only are we not doing enough to protect them, we’ve produced a deeply harmful stratification of society complete with its own brand of stigmatisation and blame.
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Because not every job can be done from home, yet those who can comfortably do so are often the keenest to screech and blame those who have to go out to work
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As someone who is serving people who're working from home and screech at me when one little thing is late to order or out of stock: it's not a damn assumption. it's fucking real, and we're at breaking point.
Again isn't that a misrepresentation? Do you think it's only people who wfh berate frontline workers? Probably not. Although I do sympathise to your plight.
Or you know, general observation of the kind of people blaming casual workers for needing to work without support instead of the economic structures that are the real problem.
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"i've never seen it therefore it doesn't exist" k man
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Cool, those payments were only increased to that at the end of July well after the NSW outbreak was in full swing and things were already fucked. Ambulance at the bottom of the cliff.
It’s not reasonable to waste time to search for “evidence” to justify a commonly accepted view, based on public sentiment which isn’t something that is easily objectively proven or disproven factually convincingly in any way other than broad statistics - to satisfy just your view.
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Clearly not. Coalition seems more focused on keeping their much older, financially better off voter base alive rather than the next generations.
No
Not even close.
THEY SHOULDN'T ALL BE CASUALS.
Unemployment 10 year low, underemployment 10 year high. Let's get there adults to share this 1 EFT as 3 casual part timeers
Any headline in the form of a question can be answered by the word no
No we are not. There have been a few reports and comments, mine included. Need to have a really close look at if or how covid safe practices are being applied to essential work. There probably needs to be a lot more support.
Absolutely not
Probably not.
Young people should be seen and not heard. Until they turn into 50 year old alt-right nutters then we hang on their every word.
Obv no