A couple of years ago.
I was offer a job from one of a Tech manager that is from a MSP company to provide tech support for schools.
The manager says this is a career program that can offer you skills that can succeed in the industry such as "interview skills, AI training, guiding you in the industry, paid certification, and most importantly reference". If you work for me for 2 years you can either choose to stay with us or we will help you find a high paying job and give you a good reference. After that I have told the manager that I have already got a qualification in IT specifically from Tafe and CCNA. However, he says that's good we can help you to add more qualifications and pay for the famous certification such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, ITIL and other well known qualifications for the first attempt. However, will not pay for the national recognized Qualifications from Uni or Tafe.
After getting the job, the manager promised a lot of things such as if you work for me you get to travel around the world, you are invited into our X'mas party, and additional pay once every semester during training day. However, what is written on the contract is way beyond what we call the word fair and here are one of the notable ones. The Employee is listed as a IT trainee, The Employee is hired for a permeant part time, The employee will not be paid unless they got there orange card, The employee will only be paid on the amount of hours they worked. The employee hours will not exceed more than 7 hours and 30mins each day. The employee will only be paid the national minimum amount and at last but not least. They excluded the holiday entitlements in the contract therefore, I was not even paid during school holidays.
This job is anything, but fair truth be told since it may look like its just a "Part time job", but they hired me from Monday to Friday with 7 hours everyday which that may as well be counted as a full-time job and I've been listed as a IT trainee, but the problem is what qualification am I getting trained for when I already have the highest IT national qualification from a government education institution? And not to say with the payment exclusion until I get my orange card and the annual salary that is not even enough to be counted as low since the hourly earnings is the lowest of the low with holiday entitlements that is excluded.
This company has just too much red flags especially after the 2 years career program they offered. They get more than what they give since the only benefit they give is either a cheap as qualifications that is not from a Australian education institution, a unguaranteed future position for another job and a reference that is probably not even that useful (which later on it is not). I even heard from other employees that the salary varies between each employees. One employee had to spend all his earnings from this job on the petrol and tolls just to get to that school and another had the benefit for holiday entitlement. After working there for almost 1 year, I negotiated with my manager to reduced my working days to 2 or 3 days because on how low the salary is which he indeed agreed, but had to find me another school. Eventually, I got replaced in my old school and the new school that I was meant to go got taken by other employees because the previous school they were working from decided to cancel the subscription with out company which this left me semi-employed for 4 months until the manager eventually couldn't find me a school and terminated the contract and never reach out to me since then. And all those vague promised he mentioned before almost all of them were never fully fulfilled.
tldr pls