@boris1gary wrote:
@punch*drunk wrote:I dont understand........ The national minimum wage is $16.37 per hour for adults 21 and over, 30 hours at that rate is about $491.....17 year old juniors/trainees rate is $9.46 an hour, 30 hours is about $280.
Are people expecting they should be paid for a full week when only doing part time hours? Or do you think they should be paid above the award rate per hour?
Perhaps I'm missing something?
perhaps?
A ''green army'' of 15,000 young people will be paid as little as half the minimum wage, as fresh details emerge of the federal government's plan to create Australia's largest environmental workforce.
Young people who fill the green army's ranks will be paid about half the minimum wage, earning between $304.20 and $493.70 a week.
The wages compare with $622.20 a week for the minimum wage and the basic rate of $250.50 a week for a single person getting Newstart, or the dole. The scheme is modelled on John Howard's Green Corps, and will be an alternative to work-for-the-dole programs.
I must still be missing the point. The figures quoted up there ($304.20 & 493.70) are pretty much exactly 30 hours at the standard minumum wage for the relevant ages. The lower amount being 17 year olds, the higher for adults.
Do people expect the 17 year olds working 30 hours to earn the same as a 21 year old working 38 hours? ie $622.20
Or is the standard working week 30 hours now?
