Working holiday woes Tamoe (not her real name) was a 23-years old Japanese visitor, a kindergarten worker who came to Au
Posted: Sun May 08, 2022 4:29 pm
Working holiday woes Tamoe (not her real name) was a 23-years
old Japanese visitor, a kindergarten worker who came to Australia
for a working holiday in 2015. Apart from a couple of bright spots,
it was not a happy employment experience. Her first job was at a
Japanese restaurant in Newtown, in inner Sydney, where she was paid
$12 an hour in cash, with no payslip. The national minimum wage was
then $17.29 an hour, and the restaurant Industry Award, which
overrides that, adds penalty rates for after 10pm and weekend work.
Tamoe said nothing about Australian employment systems was
explained to her when she began at the restaurant. She blamed
herself, because she did not speak English. “Other friends working
in Japanese restaurants in Sydney also say that $10 or $12 an hour
is normal. So, I just accepted it.” A teacher at Tamie’s English
language school in Sydney had set her up with a tax file number,
but Tamoe never used it- at the Japanese restaurant or other places
where she worked. The owner of the Japanese restaurant, a woman
from mainland China, told me she had no record of Tamoe working
there, and did not remember her, and that “with all staff we record
their tax file numbers”. Research by Stephen Clibborn, from the
University of Sydney Business School, found that in 2016, 60
percent of 1433 tertiary students were being paid below the minimum
wage. Much of this black economy is undocumented. But Brien White,
the chair of the large catering and hospitality from the Trippas
White group, estimates that around 80 percent of restaurants and
cafes are paying off the books, at least partly. He abhors the
pattern because it put employers who pay formally and fairly at a
competitive disadvantage. Tamoe later worked in the kitchen at a
café in Paddington, also in Sydney. She says she was given the
choice of payment without a tax file number, or paying tax. She
thought that not being Australian, she would not get her tax back,
so she chose cash. The pay rate was around $19 an hour, roughly the
entry level award for kitchen staff, but she was forsaking super
and workers’ compensation. Examination Cover Sheet One day, Tamoe
dropped a hot pan of caramel popcorn, splashing the molten contents
on her arm and leg. The café owner told her not to tell the
hospital that it was a work accident; Tamoe was to say it happened
at home. The colleague who took her to the hospital was not aware
of the instruction and told the reception nurse it was a work
accident. Tamoe rang the café owner, who she says told her to leave
the hospital immediately. Some hours later, she got the medical
treatment for her burns at a clinic, which cost $600 and which she
paid for herself, although her travel insurance covered a third of
it. There would be other work-related dramas: an injury on a farm,
and an assault. Just before she went back to Japan, Tamoe was
stoic: “I learnt a lot in my time in Australia.”
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old Japanese visitor, a kindergarten worker who came to Australia
for a working holiday in 2015. Apart from a couple of bright spots,
it was not a happy employment experience. Her first job was at a
Japanese restaurant in Newtown, in inner Sydney, where she was paid
$12 an hour in cash, with no payslip. The national minimum wage was
then $17.29 an hour, and the restaurant Industry Award, which
overrides that, adds penalty rates for after 10pm and weekend work.
Tamoe said nothing about Australian employment systems was
explained to her when she began at the restaurant. She blamed
herself, because she did not speak English. “Other friends working
in Japanese restaurants in Sydney also say that $10 or $12 an hour
is normal. So, I just accepted it.” A teacher at Tamie’s English
language school in Sydney had set her up with a tax file number,
but Tamoe never used it- at the Japanese restaurant or other places
where she worked. The owner of the Japanese restaurant, a woman
from mainland China, told me she had no record of Tamoe working
there, and did not remember her, and that “with all staff we record
their tax file numbers”. Research by Stephen Clibborn, from the
University of Sydney Business School, found that in 2016, 60
percent of 1433 tertiary students were being paid below the minimum
wage. Much of this black economy is undocumented. But Brien White,
the chair of the large catering and hospitality from the Trippas
White group, estimates that around 80 percent of restaurants and
cafes are paying off the books, at least partly. He abhors the
pattern because it put employers who pay formally and fairly at a
competitive disadvantage. Tamoe later worked in the kitchen at a
café in Paddington, also in Sydney. She says she was given the
choice of payment without a tax file number, or paying tax. She
thought that not being Australian, she would not get her tax back,
so she chose cash. The pay rate was around $19 an hour, roughly the
entry level award for kitchen staff, but she was forsaking super
and workers’ compensation. Examination Cover Sheet One day, Tamoe
dropped a hot pan of caramel popcorn, splashing the molten contents
on her arm and leg. The café owner told her not to tell the
hospital that it was a work accident; Tamoe was to say it happened
at home. The colleague who took her to the hospital was not aware
of the instruction and told the reception nurse it was a work
accident. Tamoe rang the café owner, who she says told her to leave
the hospital immediately. Some hours later, she got the medical
treatment for her burns at a clinic, which cost $600 and which she
paid for herself, although her travel insurance covered a third of
it. There would be other work-related dramas: an injury on a farm,
and an assault. Just before she went back to Japan, Tamoe was
stoic: “I learnt a lot in my time in Australia.”
question1 need summary for this case study to put in
powerpoint presentation slides