There are frequent cases of job-seeking fraud among Australian students.
In Australia, international students and other young overseas workers are victims of internship traps. Unscrupulous employers seize the young people's eagerness to find jobs and use illegal internship programs to hire cheap labor. In response to this phenomenon, the Australian Fair Work Commissioner issued a warning to remind international students and educational institutions to be vigilant and avoid falling into internships or other job-seeking scams.
Recently, there have been a series of job fraud cases in Australia. Many employers recruit interns on the grounds that they can help candidates accumulate work experience. Even some job opportunities are dominated by educational institutions such as schools. However, once international students or other overseas workers formally take up their posts, they become the targets of exploitation by employers.
In one case, the operator of a sushi restaurant and an accountant were fined nearly A $200,000 for exploiting interns. The Federal Circuit Court learned that this sushi restaurant in the south of Wollongong was suspected of exploiting employees. Three Korean salesgirls aged between 20 and 2 1 deducted 5 1025 Australian dollars from their total wages. These saleswomen are all Koreans and go to Australia on a 4 17 working holiday visa.
According to the so-called internship agreement provided by sushi restaurant operators, the average hourly salary of these shop assistants ranges from 12 to 13.5, each of whom works 4 to 6 days a week and works more than 38 hours a week. However, this internship agreement is not legal, and the internship opportunities provided by sushi restaurants are not part of the school internship task, so these shop assistants actually belong to employees, not interns. According to the law, their legal hourly wage is 16.67 to 18.99, and the overtime pay is 23 to 47 Australian dollars per hour.
The Fair Work Commissioner also found that some unscrupulous employers would exploit them under the guise of accumulating work experience. In a case in Brisbane, a labor and employment company faced court charges because it was suspected of deducting more than A $65,438+04,000 from the wages of 65,438+000 employees through an illegal unpaid work experience accumulation plan.
It is reported that this labor service company is suspected of introducing employees to work at the company's customers, and the working hours range from 3 days to 26 days, but these employees are not paid. However, the company was accused of charging customers A $65,438+05 per hour. The Commissioner for Fair Work pointed out that such employees should be defined as employees according to law, which means that they can be paid according to the minimum wage.
In this regard, Natalie James, Commissioner of the Fair Work Commission, said that a series of recent cases of violating laws and regulations have highlighted this information, that is, employers regard illegal internship programs as an important way to obtain cheap labor, which will bring serious consequences.
She pointed out that in some cases, unpaid work is allowed, for example, some approved projects will include the conditions of unpaid work. However, Australian law prohibits employers from exploiting employees in the name of internship when their actual work is equivalent to regular employees. She said that such employees can enjoy the minimum employee benefits according to the minimum wage.
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