I'm full time permanent employee, My boss everyday ask me work for 15 minutes extra for free after I'm done my 8 or 9 hours work, Is this illegal or not??
NSW Asking for Unpaid work
- Thread starter MOHSEN AL MOUSSAWI
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The average Australian worker does 5 hours of unpaid overtime each week, overall about 150 billion unpaid work hours gifted to Australian employers ever year.
Welcome to Australia.
However, Its not legal because of the missed income tax for the government, and because it displaces jobs, you can expect the government to crack down on this more and more over time.
Welcome to Australia.
However, Its not legal because of the missed income tax for the government, and because it displaces jobs, you can expect the government to crack down on this more and more over time.
Not particularly. Start recording the dates and times the boss asks and your response. Might come in handy later 
Reasonable amount of overtime is acceptable, consist overtime day after day is not.
Reasonable amount of overtime is acceptable, consist overtime day after day is not.
I can add couple of points to the above comments:
Read your contract again, some contracts will state that you need to work reasonable hours (above the weekly hours) to have the work completed (as most of my contracts), this is from the legal aspect.
other point, I like to mention, is that the economy is not good now and it maybe worth while to work this to be have a good environment in the work place, complaining or refusing this may harm your future with the company, also: - is it a small business?,- have you had any other indications or examples that have a negative vibe? if there are none, it could be the the manager is trying to run the business better.
Hope this helps and gives you things to consider,
good luck.
Read your contract again, some contracts will state that you need to work reasonable hours (above the weekly hours) to have the work completed (as most of my contracts), this is from the legal aspect.
other point, I like to mention, is that the economy is not good now and it maybe worth while to work this to be have a good environment in the work place, complaining or refusing this may harm your future with the company, also: - is it a small business?,- have you had any other indications or examples that have a negative vibe? if there are none, it could be the the manager is trying to run the business better.
Hope this helps and gives you things to consider,
good luck.
This is the perfect excuse for any business to employ less workers than the number of workers normally required to..... 'to have the work completed'.
Keep this in mind.... every time a person works overtime, paid or not, they potentially take away someone else's job.
When there are hard times economically, it is even more important not to do overtime, in actual fact, you could be doing 'job sharing' which means actually cutting back your hours below normal in order to allow other people to keep their jobs.
I agree with you, but in the OP situation, it is 15minutes only, and that may not warrant to employ a full or part time employee. Also, I did mention if the employer is doing anything else that give a negative vibe, if not, then this is request is from a honest intention.
Well, that depends on how many employees he has got doing that 15 minutes overtime. It is allowed, to get a casual employee just doing half a day per week. Needless to say, all those 15 minutes combined across the entire country would add up to MILLIONS of lost jobs.
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