Good morning, I have just come across this forum and wanted to see if anyone might have any knowledge on what my situation would fall under in legal terms?
I accepted a position of permanent part time, still have my letter of offer in my emails reflecting this and showing I was to be rostered 10 hours per week along with the entitlements permanent employees receive.
I purely took this job over another due to the shifts being suited to my needs and therefore turned down another position which was actually closer to my home.
A staff member of seniority, lent over myself when I was completing training on the staff computers and clicked accept to something that had popped up on the screen, this was done to the other 2 new employee's as well. I found out later she had consented to me being changed to casual.
I did not provide this consent nor was I given any information about the change, I feel it was of inequality to do that to me as I would have liked to read over a new contract and make the decision for myself and what suits my needs plus an opportunity to ask questions as well. I didn't get that opportunity whatsoever.
There was also a comment made by this person of " Don't worry you'll go permanent in a month anyway" is that then a misrepresentation? False promises? I have not "gone permanent in a month"
Any advice ? I can only find that it would be classed as a unilateral change of contract but I am unsure what to do next. I can also see that when this change was consented to it would be classed as a termination of the permanent contract and its been over 21 days now so I don't think I would be eligible to go through FWC for an unfair dismissal.
I have contacted the internal dispute resolution team but without any assistance.
I accepted a position of permanent part time, still have my letter of offer in my emails reflecting this and showing I was to be rostered 10 hours per week along with the entitlements permanent employees receive.
I purely took this job over another due to the shifts being suited to my needs and therefore turned down another position which was actually closer to my home.
A staff member of seniority, lent over myself when I was completing training on the staff computers and clicked accept to something that had popped up on the screen, this was done to the other 2 new employee's as well. I found out later she had consented to me being changed to casual.
I did not provide this consent nor was I given any information about the change, I feel it was of inequality to do that to me as I would have liked to read over a new contract and make the decision for myself and what suits my needs plus an opportunity to ask questions as well. I didn't get that opportunity whatsoever.
There was also a comment made by this person of " Don't worry you'll go permanent in a month anyway" is that then a misrepresentation? False promises? I have not "gone permanent in a month"
Any advice ? I can only find that it would be classed as a unilateral change of contract but I am unsure what to do next. I can also see that when this change was consented to it would be classed as a termination of the permanent contract and its been over 21 days now so I don't think I would be eligible to go through FWC for an unfair dismissal.
I have contacted the internal dispute resolution team but without any assistance.
