BCR posted:

*Just in case you don't know*

If you're a casual, you won't get sick pay or holiday pay, but you'll get 25% more pay to make up for this.

If you're permanent part time or permanent, you get sick leave and annual leave and long service leave.

If you're a contractor, chances are you're being hosed.

https://calculate.fairwork.gov.au/ this can help

Join your union. Don't join the Shoppies.

Know your award, and check you're being paid correctly.

Check your super, are they actually paying the right amount or paying it all?

ACTU helpline: 1300 486 466
Fair work Australia: 13 13 94

You need legal support in case poo poo happens at work. You get hurt, someone else gets hurt, you get accused of stealing, etc. You need legal advice. You can get free legal advice through your union by paying your membership fee. $200 a year is better than paying the $200+ an hour you would have to if you hire a lawyer. There is free legal support that can help, but might not be able to in your case.

http://www.legalaid.nsw.gov.au/contact-us/legal-aid-nsw-offices
https://legalaid.vic.gov.au/
http://www.legalaid.qld.gov.au/Pages/Home.aspx

ScreamingLlama posted:

I just got a letter today from the Administrative Appeals Tribunal informing me that my appeal was successful and I can stay on the DSP.


WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Birb Katter posted:

Siege in Liverpool this morning, dude holed up with a gun since midnight

https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/30269896/sydney-streets-in-lockdown-as-police-surround-liverpool-home-during-siege-situation/

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UberX effectively outlawed in Victoria after driver found guilty in test case

Nathan Brenner found guilty of driving a hire car without a licence or registration, setting a precedent that may make the service illegal
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The Uber taxi app being used in Brisbane, Australia. The result of a test case in Melbourne on Friday has effectively made Uber illegal. Photograph: Dan Peled/AAP

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Friday 4 December 2015 14.23 AEDT
Last modified on Friday 4 December 2015 16.05 AEDT

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UberX is effectively illegal in Victoria after a test case found one of its Melbourne drivers guilty of driving without a commercial licence.

Magistrate Julian Ayres found Uber driver Nathan Brenner guilty on Friday of two counts of operating a commercial passenger vehicle without a licence.

He was fined without conviction.

Brenner was one of 13 Uber drivers charged by the Taxi Services Commission last year during an undercover operation.
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The court decision means the UberX service is illegal in Victoria.

Uber said it was disappointed but would continue to operate across the state and would support Brenner’s appeal.

“We will continue to support Mr Brenner as he appeals [against] the decision,” Uber said in a statement on Friday.

“It is widely acknowledged that the current legislation could not have contemplated technology such as Uber – the legislation clearly needs to be updated.”

Public transport minister Jacinta Allan says Uber has to abide by the laws.

“I’d encourage Uber to think about the position they’re putting those drivers in if they continue down this path while this matter continues to remain unresolved,” she told reporters on Friday.
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Allan said Victoria was “well advanced” in working through policy issues surrounding how to regulate the so-called ridesharing business and ensure it does not have an unfair advantage over the taxi and hire car industry.

State opposition leader Matthew Guy said the government was taking too long.

“Other states are coming to the fore and making decisions around Uber,” Guy said.

“Canberra got off its backside and has made a decision, New South Wales is clearly looking at it, South Australia’s gone further than Victoria.

“We’ve got to find a structure where … Uber can operate in tandem with the taxi industry.”

Guy said the “obvious” answer would be to look at an annual fee mechanism which would incorporate taxis and ride-sharing companies.

The UberX platform allows drivers to offer rides for payment from their personal cars, and has been the subject of legal challenges across the world. The Australian Capital Territory legalised the service in September, the first jurisdiction in Australia to do so.

Graic Gabtar posted:

One still sitting on a massive mortgage maybe.

Starshark posted:

Tony Blair isn't considered dumb and he still sold Britain on Iraq. There was obviously a lot going on there and the invasion was only a matter of time.

thatfatkid posted:

Hmm yes the answer to combatting mental illness is putting fences up around everything.

Tirade posted:

katlington posted:

Today you cant say people should be burned alive, whats next? Dear oh dear.

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Malcolm Turnbull was NOT elected as Australia's Prime Minister. He has already signed two crucial UN treaties that Tony Abbott probably would not have signed on for, viz Paris climate "action" and Agenda 2030. Please note, the UN does not operate democratically, so does NOT represent the People of the countries in the UN. It is largely the UN's selections. Please note the extraordinarily high number of Socialists and Communists within the upper ranks of the UN. In reality, the UN is the body of the International SOCIALISTS. Not being a true International body, it is effectively a foreign power. Under Section 44 of the Constitution, bearing obedience, allegiance or adherence to such a body automatically makes one ineligible to sit in the Federal Parliament. Malcolm Turnbull should actually be behind bars for disregarding the Constitution.

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I did not vote for Turnbull.
I despise weakness.
Turnbull is a Traitor.
Abbott will reinstate Australia's Grit and Worth.
Australia's constitution is being raped by socialist/communists scurrilous swines. They are Traitors and need to be tried as such.
I as a voter have been taken for a fool by these Treasonous Bastards !!

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WE DON’T APPROVE OF MALCOLM TURNBULL AND JULIE BISHOP’S TREACHEROUS CONNIVING WAYS.
Furthermore, we don’t approve of their left-leaning policies which were not generally endorsed by the Liberal Party electorate.
THE TURNBULL LIBERAL DOES NOT HAVE A MANDATE TO CHANGE:
• An introduction of Carbon Trading
• Wholesale funding of a hoax which was blatantly opposed by the electorate that voted for the Liberal Party.
• Wholesale immigration of Muslims illegal immigrants
• An appeasing stance to Muslim violence, here and abroad
• Government run by inane mollifying slogans

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I do not want Australia to be led by someone who would support an artist with tendencies towards paedophilia.
I also do not want a PM who does not put Australians first.
I also do not want a PM who promotes islam.
I fully support Tony Abbott and his stance on "climate change".
PLEASE SIR PETER COSGROVE SACK MALCOLM TURNBULL IMMEDIATELY

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Source: AAP
29 Dec 2015 - 8:10 AM UPDATED 3 HOURS AGO

The Turnbull government won't fund the final two years of the Gonski school funding.

Education Minister Simon Birmingham told Fairfax Media on Tuesday the government would instead work to strike new funding agreements from 2018, focused on creating a simpler system rather than handing out more cash.

"The previous (Labor) government's approach showed great largesse in tipping additional funding into the system, but they created a complicated model that lacks fairness and transparency," he said.

Jumpingmanjim posted:

Mal Brough standing aside as well.