Yes sure. Keep telling yourself that he was paying over priced "fringe benefits" in order to justify worker exploitation!

They were getting paid the equivalent of about 20% above minimum wage.
Right wingers, being business driven, should know what fringe benefits are (of course, they probably break the law wherever they can & don't disclose it....)
When your party cops such a regular hiding in the media from its lies & incompetence, I guess a bone of false equivalence has to be thrown to its ra ra crowd once in a while, lest the reality starts dawning on them that they are the most morally bankrupt....:lol: :lol: :lol: :cool: :cool: :cool:

The green apologists who think an au pair would work the minimum amount of time (25 hours) are deluded. No they aren't, they are liars, not even a Greens voter would be stupid enough to believe that. DiNatale offered the position as suitable to a couple without any increase in wage, which works out to less than $2 an hour. He knew it was wrong, all animals are equal but some are more equal than others.

Edited by Crusader: 21/5/2016 11:38:51 PM

We can thank Di Natalie for that! :lol:

Underpay in the food and hospitality industry seems to be making news today... Http://m.theage.com.au/business/workplace-relations/union-fronts-for-mcdonalds-in-pay-penalties-row-20160520-gp05d5.html

Seems to be an Industry trend.. Does Di Nitale have mates in hospitality? http://m.theage.com.au/business/workplace-relations/major-hotel-chains-shortchange-housekeepers-tens-of-thousands-of-dollars-investigation-finds-20160520-gozkbv.html

Politics thread ffs.

-PB

Don't think some in here don't really get what Au Pairs actually do or why people seek these jobs. Rent and Board is a standard part of the payment arrangement, it's an extremely common way for people to travel. When you actually see the farm that they get to live in, the beautiful part of Victoria it's in and the home grown produce they have access to, the level of expense for Rent and Board is completely reasonable.

I've done nearly the exact same thing in Europe to help pay for my travel and give me the chance to live for a few months in a lovely part of the world. This is a pretty lazy attempt at a smear campaign(even for the libs), OP is a dope and Rusty is stupid enough to fall for it as usual.

Thats some damn fine capitalism right there. Charge $50 per night for a bed and shitty home cooked meals.

Lets assume you are a green capitalist like Di Natale, and you were in need for some au pairs. You decide to charge them $100 per night, which is well below market rate of equivalent hotels. Lets say breakfast is $10, lunch is $15 and dinner is $20 , fairly conservative estimates. Tea, oxygen and use of the toilet is $5 per day. Over 7 days and night that would work out to remuneration of over $1,000 per week, in lieu of wages. So you could employ an au pair for 38 hours per week , not pay them an additional cent, and still be well above the award wage. :cool:

Its printed in the media, so it has to be true!
Throw out scientific rigour, let's just listen to the media.
And was the Daily Terror first to report it? If so, it gives it even more legitimacy..... :idea:

How big are her tits ?

Oh right, so pizza shops and restaurateurs can now pay below minimum wage just because they might provide a meal which costs them about $5 in ingredients!

If there is a nice view, you can dock their pay even more. :lol:

My my, the hypocrisy in here... :-k

Edited by Aikhme: 20/5/2016 01:27:48 PM

Damn it! I need to go into business by buying a farm in an exotic place. :lol:

That's like the dominos manager underpaying you because you get to eat the freshest olives and work in one of the best workplace cultures in Australia.:lol:

Oh right!

That makes sense now. So hotels and resorts can now pay their workers $150 per week for 25 hours of work provided they provide accommodation in scenic places! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Edited by Aikhme: 20/5/2016 01:18:12 PM

I get fully how it gets. You take on foreign nations who are desperate for work, pay them a measly a $6 an hour and then top up their pay with fringe benefits like exorbitant rent, use of the toilet, tv time and one shower per day to bring them up to minimum wage and justify to yourself you're not committing slave labour.

no it's like paying for all expenses - in nice accommodation with good farm food in one of the most scenic places on the planet

It's like running a Dominos franchise and paying your staff with pizzas and garlic bread :lol:

you are speaking shit just to stroke yourself.

a nice hotel would cost that per night. if you include all meals it would be much more.

$350 for 7 nights accomodation on a farm house in the Otways with meals all week. that's $50 per day. again conservative nutters cant do maths.

What a load of rubbish!

That is what he was saying and it still doesn't meet award conditions.

He claims to charge $300 per week for board. Was it the Sheraton or something? :lol:

You guys would have been all over this if it was Barnaby Joyce or Turnbull.

:-k

OP is a special kind of idiot.

he hired at $150 + room + food for 25 hours per week.

that's about $500 for 25 hours work - with only $150 taxable and they stay in the Otways.

It's their thread, I say let them enjoy the circlejerk.

Does this program give the Greens the ok to engage in slave labour?

I'd say it's more an indication of the prevalence of idiots who have zero idea what the au pair program actually is, but sure let's go with your zebra hoofbeats.

It's proof the greens cannot even live up to their own standards, let alone expect others to.

He's trying to be like Steve jobs :lol:

Didn't Tim Flannery buy a waterfront mansion only to claim that climate change was going to flood the Eastern Australian coastline?:o

Did Pell employ anyone on $150 per week too and then get on his high horse about Global Capitalism? :-k

Edited by Aikhme: 20/5/2016 12:13:22 PM