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I want to have a job. It's been almost 2 month since I arrived Austrlia on working holiday visa. There's a big holiday with Christmas and New Year, so lots of shops were closed for a while. I've distributed my cv and cover letter to Brisbane CBD, West end, South Bank and Spring Hill. And I also have applied for online via gumtree, seeks.com etc.. At the beginning of the year I got the first job trial at the car wash. I passed the trial and allowed to work more but I gave up myself. Because the work environment was so harsh. There's no shade and the sun is very intense. There's no time to rest. I moved fast as much as I can but the manager urged me to move more fast. So I just quit after 3 hours. My face, neck and arms were burned and lots of pain at waist. They treated me like a slave. It was so unbelievable. My second job trial was kitchen hands at restaurant which is located in CBD. Fortunately I passed jot trial but my shift is just 5 hrs per week. Although my shift will increase but I had to find second job. After 1 week, when I arrived that restaurant to work, the head chef told me that you were fired. There business was quiet, so the owner wants to reduce the wage. The head chef forgot to call me, so I got fired without notice. It was so humiliating, but I couldn't do anything. Now I start to find job again and hope to get a full time or casual job that allows me work more than 30 hrs per week. So gloomy month...

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I want to have a job.

It's been almost 2 month since I arrived in Austrlia on a working holiday visa.

There was a big holiday with Christmas and New Years, so lots of shops were closed for a while.

I've distributed my cv and cover letter to Brisbane CBD, West end, South Bank and Spring Hill.

I've also applied for online via gumtree, seeks.com etc..

At the beginning of the year I got my first job trial at the car wash.

I passed the trial and was allowed to work more but I quit because the work environment was so harsh.

There was no shade and the sun was very intense.

There was no time to rest.

I moved as fast as I could but the manager urged me to move faster.

So I just quit after 3 hours.

My face, neck and arms were burned and I had lots of pain at my waist.

They treated me like a slave. It was so unbelievable.


My second job trial was a kitchen hand at a restaurant which is located in CBD.

Fortunately I passed the job trial but my shift is just 5 hours per week.

My shift will increase but I had to find a second job.

After 1 week, I came into work and the head chef fired me.

Their business was quiet, so the owner wanted to reduce the hours.

The head chef forgot to call me, so I got fired without notice.

It was so humiliating, but I couldn't do anything.


Now I'm starting to find a job again and hope to get a full time or casual job that allows me work more than 30 hrs per week.

So gloomy month...

 

I wish you all the luck!

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I knew the Work Ombudsman. But I didn't consider about is.. The owner of car wash is Aussie and most of workers are korean. I'm so worried about their health. And I got the mail from a labor hire company. In the mail, they said that host employer is a business that hires workers from them. what's the meaning of that sentence? Is this mean they hired me? I contacted with manager directly from the gumtree information. And my pay rate was 20.24$. My job was casual, so minimum wages plus casual loading is more than 21$ as I know.. I think the agency took some money from my pay, I'm not sure. Even though I worked just 3 hours, for the better work envrionment to others I will ask something to Fair Work. Thank you for your information Peter ^^
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Reese, in Australia you have certain rights as an employee which are protected by law. We have person called the Fair Work Ombudsman (www.fairwork.gov.au) whose job it is to investigate breaches of the law. He has information in many languages including Korean which you will find at: http://www.fairwork.gov.au/contact-us/language-help/korean Unfortunately, some parts of the car wash industry and some sections of the restaurant industry are not known for being very good employers. Hope this information helps.
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thanks for your correction Cordelia^^

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