National burger chain Grill'd has been slammed for reportedly paying its workforce 'rock-bottom' wages while staff do a training course, a workers union states.
A popular burger chain in Australia has been accused of paying staff a"rock-bottom" hourly rate while making them feel they must undertake a traineeship to work there.
Patrick Stephenson, who has worked at Grill'd for two years, said he does not get penalty rates for working evenings or the weekends just a flat rate of $18.50 an hour."One of the reasons I'm paid so little is because Grill'd pressured me to do a dodgy traineeship. It's just an excuse to pay me trainee wages," the 23-year-old said.
Ninety-two per cent of 370 current and former Grill'd workers surveyed in 2018 by an Australian University Union student group reportedly said the traineeship wasn't worth it.Yet more than 750 Grill'd employees have completed their qualifications in the past 12 months, with 31 per cent of the company's staff listed as trainees, a spokeswoman said.
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