Unpaid work trials??

[morgazmatron]

Hey guys just wondering if anyone has any info on this?
I have an unpaid trial with a bar but they want 2 x 3 hour trial shifts.
now i have done a trial before but they just chucked those hours on my first pay.
so completely unpaid, is that even allowed? any info would be awesome. Cheers in advance

Morgs

[DanWA]

If you want it so much who gives a fuck

So i'm guessing its a test

[morgazmatron]

yeah of course. I'm doing it anyway but i know they are illegal in other states just curious about here.

[satch]

my mate who is a chef does it reguarly when job hunting.

He does 10-12 hours sometimes. I think its expected in the hospitality industry.

[Volatile Rob]

I always trial new employees for 3 days non paid... I have learnt to do this after some bad decisions in the past. While they are on trial, I will always buy them lunch and if they do a good job, 9/10 times they'll end up with some cash in hand and a job.

For speciality type jobs, I think it is fine... But for jobs like checkout assistant, shelf restockers and the like, it is frowned upon.

When I was 16 I went for a job with King Kong in Forest Chase as a floor worker... basically the job was unpacking stock and putting it out for sale.

I did 2 days free work and didn't hear back from them. When I went back on the 3rd day to see if I had a job, they just said they'll let me know as they were trialling more people...

Turns out when ever they got a new container of crap from china, they would advertise this job and get free labour for a week or two.

They eventually got fined a substantial amount when DOCEP (or whatever it was called back then) found out.

Funny thing is my wife's dad was one of the directors of King Kong back then...

/csb

[karnage]

When I was 16 I went for a job with King Kong in Forest Chase as a floor worker... basically the job was unpacking stock and putting it out for sale.

I did 2 days free work and didn't hear back from them. When I went back on the 3rd day to see if I had a job, they just said they'll let me know as they were trialling more people...

Turns out when ever they got a new container of crap from china, they would advertise this job and get free labour for a week or two.



wow thats a pretty fucking cheap thing to do hey

[Steppo_GT]

3 days is fuck all. The place i work for now as an apprentice sparky expected 2 weeks of unpaid work from me. But i did get paid for it when i got taken on.

[S_E]

It is illegal, however still pretty normal, I did 2 days before getting my apprenticeship, got paid for it afterwards though.