An Australian burger chain is facing accusations of leveraging traineeship programs to keep its workers on low wages — a claim the company dismisses, saying they are "a great way to provide skills, knowledge and leadership expertise".

This is very reminiscent of the On The Run traineeship scandal that occurred in South Australia not long ago. Anyone know of other companies still using these traineeship loopholes to commit mass wage theft?

  • zero_gravitas@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Power to them, I hope people support them however they can!

    Ridiculous that this trainee stuff is still going on with Grill’d specifically - they’ve been in the news media for it since at least 2016 (earliest story I can find).

    What this SBS article doesn’t mention is that Grill’d has been known to drag their feet on progressing a trainee, to just keep them on the lower rate indefinitely.