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An Australian burger chain is facing accusations of leveraging traineeship programs to keep its workers on low wages — a claim the company dismisses, saying they are "a great way to provide skills, knowledge and leadership expertise".

This is very reminiscent of the On The Run traineeship scandal that occurred in South Australia not long ago. Anyone know of other companies still using these traineeship loopholes to commit mass wage theft?

  • Ilandar@aussie.zoneOPEnglish
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    25 days ago

    Yes, that was my experience at OTR. I worked there for like 7 or 8 months before quitting and they’d only just started the “training” around the time I left and even then it was super slow, like one session a fortnight or something. The HappyWash employee at my place was immediately moved into the store when he completed his traineeship (they had a different one to us) so the company put him on the retail traineeship and lowered his wage back to $16 or whatever it was. Then they hired a teenager to fill the HappyWash role.