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  Issue No 42 Official Organ of LaborNet 17 December 1999  

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The Great Salary Rip-Off


Hundreds of people working in large hotels are being short-changed thousands of dollars per year due to dodgy salary arrangements.

 
 

Now you can visit the LHMU's website at http://www.lhmu.org.au/feedback/ripoff.html to find out if you are one of them.

Often, people who are "put on salary" simply accept that they have to work unlimited hours and weekend work, without any additional compensation.

But this is not the case.

The gut feeling many salary people have that they are being "ripped-off" is actually true.

Minimum salary not enough

The minimum salary (25% above the award rate) only covers employees for about 42 hours per week, and the working of one weekend in five.

Very often, hotels fail to keep track of what hours salaried staff are actually working, and in many cases the salaries are simply not high enough to cover all award penalties and entitlements.

If you are on salary, and have often thought "I'd be better off being paid award penalties for the hours I work", you are probably right.

If you are on salary, and not getting adequately paid for all the hours you work, you are entitled to back pay.

To find out if your salary is not enough, check out the LHMU website (www.lhmu.org.au). All information will go directly to a union organiser in your state and will be strictly confidential. A union organiser will contact you to discuss what action can be taken.


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In this issue
Features
*  Interview: Costa Bravo
Labor Council�s chief trouble maker chronicles the battles of the past year and ponders those still to come.
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*  Unions: More Wins Than Losses
Workers Online ranks the Top Ten industrial relations stories from a year of frenetic activity.
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*  International: Eric Lee's Year in Review
The editor of Labourstart looks back over his favourite stories of 1999.
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*  Politics: So Many Questions
It was a year in politics that threw up more questions than answers. We look at some of the sticky ones.
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*  Republic: Referendum With Class
Labor heretic Michael Thomspson analyses the failure of the Republican proposition.
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*  Environment: Seattle Kills Greens V Jobs Bogey
The sight of US unionists, environmentalists and human rights activists being attacked by police in Seattle shows how far the progressive movement has come.
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*  Deface a Face: Give Him a Hairdo
What better present could Michael Costa offer Workers Online readers than the chance to give him a Deface a Face style make over?
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*  Labour Review: What's New at the Information Centre
See the latest issue of Labour Review, our resource for officials, activists and students.
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*  Review: Cultural Wasteland
Workers Online resident door-bitches Zanga and Paul pass judgement on the year that finished the millennium.
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»  Rule Changes to Restructure Council
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»  The Great Salary Rip-Off
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»  George to Kick Start NSW IR Reforms?
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»  Shaw Loses Key Advisers
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»  More New Faces at the New ACTU
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»  Reith Second Wave Not Beached Yet
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»  Peace in the Gong
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»  Workers Support Register Gathers Steam
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»  Pay Equity Enters Campaign Mode
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»  Union Aid Agency to Establish Dili Office
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»  Job Vacancies at the LHMU
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Columns
»  Guest Report
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»  Sport
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»  Trades Hall
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»  Piers Watch
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Letters to the editor
»  Aquilina's Insult
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»  Well Done 1999
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»  US Union Site Worth a Look
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