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@icyfroth wrote:

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@siggie-reported-by-alarmists wrote:

http://www.outback-australia-travel-secrets.com/how-much-do-you-usually-get-paid-in-fruit-picking.ht...

 

 

10 hours at $4 an hour according to one picker....... what are they given on the doll?

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That would be the base rate. After that you'd get paid per amount picked.

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There is no base hourly rate. These jobs pay piece rates, either by kilo, container or bin.

Another day, another attack on "dole bludgers" by newscorpse.

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@idlewhile wrote:

I don't see discussing the unemployment of this country as an attack, or has free speech just got another kick in the .........

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Did you not read the OP?

Read it and see how it refers to the unemployed as lazy, good for nothings that refuse to work.  Not all are in the position to take picking work hours from home.

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@siggie-reported-by-alarmists wrote:

http://www.outback-australia-travel-secrets.com/how-much-do-you-usually-get-paid-in-fruit-picking.ht...

 

 

10 hours at $4 an hour according to one picker....... what are they given on the doll?

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That would be the base rate. After that you'd get paid per amount picked.

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No it wouldn't...you get paid by either the hr or so much per kilo...depending on what you pick.

I know this because we used to manage a smallcrops farm and I earnt $8 per hr picking zucchini, squash, tomatoes etc but if I was picking beans it was 50cents per kilo...that was a few years ago but the same thing applies now...wages are a bit higher now but not that much that anyone would earn $250 per day.

When you think about it it they had 100 pickers and bigger places would have that many, earning that much per day that is $25,000 per hr they would be paying wages...or $1250000 per week if they worked $10 per day for 5 days and a lot of places work 7 days a week...so that would be another $500,000...somehow I don't think so.

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@myoclon1cjerk wrote:

Mr Spaeth sits behind a desk at a car manufacturing plant in Germany.So why is he allowed to drive a forklift in Australia?.Did he get a forklift licence as soon as he landed here? Good luck picking fruit in the Hunter.Practically all of it is machine harvested.

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What's that got to do with the topic?

Seeing you can drive anywhere in most countries of Europe on your Aussie licence, why wouldn't a german forklift licence be valid here?

Assuming this is not his first  visit to Australia, it's possible he got a forklift licence at an earlier time.

picky picky?

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@wilk1149 wrote:
Has anyone here ever actually worked fir piece rate. I have many times and it is very hard to make money at a consist rate. Especially for weeks on end. Injury is inevitable. Most particularly repetitive strain. This is often really prevalent fir those that are new at the job. These jobs are many kilometres from home requiring accommodation costs to be met on top of paying a mortgage and all the other bills at home. All I have to show for years of working piece rate is a credit card bill I can't afford to pay now

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Not to mention having to work in all weather, rain, hail or shine.

I have picked beans in mud literally up to my thighs, in 40C heat and on mornings so cold that I had chilblains.

Having to either go iinto the bushes if you need to go to the toilet, or use a stinky portable outdoor one.

Spiders, snakes, my late husband was bitten by a snake when we were picking zucchinis, flies and every creepy crawlie know to man.

I challenge each and every person who has never done this work to do just ONE day and then see what they think.