The Sydney Morning Front in 2014 featured a Chinese woman on the front page, and Australian media were trying to share her success story. Her name was Clare Hu,17, who came from China to study in Melbourne and later became a successful entrepreneur and was hailed as the light of the Chinese.
Five years later, she made the front page of the Sydney Morning Frontier once again, and this time she did not climb the peak again in her career. Instead, was acciused mismanaged, its coffee chain was insolvent and defaulted on its staff, salary.
What has happened with everything from media fanfare to criticism, from successful entrepreneurs to insolvent, Clare Hu? According to Australian media reports, she came to Australia from China at the age of 17 to study in business.
According to her LinkedIn Page, Clare studied at Deacon University and Monash University, majoring in business.
(photo from LInkedIn, Melbourne Youth Club)
At that time, she had shown an unparalleled spirit of fighting, both academic and she took four part-time jobs, working seven days a week, day and night.
At that time, her friends all thought she was an iron man, tireless, because of this spirit of struggle, she went to success faster than others. After graduation, she had a stable full-time job. At that time, Sino-Australian relations were good, trade exchanges reached record highs, Clare saw the profits, began to export Australian specialties such as red wine to China, and got the first barrel of gold. I earned the first three hundred thousand Australian dollars.
Then she saw the boom in the real estate market and began to open up to the real estate, where she contracted to develop six Townhouse units for a combined price of 4.5 million Australian dollars. With the money, she transformed again.
Her next goal is the coffee industry, successfully building her own coffee brand, opening four stores,: Bluff Town cafe,The Resident cafe,StEpping Stone cafe and V.
She was 27 when the media praised her in 2014. But five years later, one of the coffee shops, now known as Bydcafe Ashburton, lost 905000 Australian dollars in October 2018 by expose, but Clare announced that the coffee shop's annual turnover was 1.5 million Australian dollars.
Her other coffee shop, Bydcafe Ashburton, was sold to Sun Tribe High, for five hundred thousand Australian dollars. There were two shareholders in the company. One was a Chinese businessman, Hai Gao, and the other was Clare's husband, Darui Sun..
Two other coffee shops owned by Clare have also been shut down, and according to her, she had filed for bankruptcy in 2016. Sociologists say Clare did so to avoid compensation for exploitative salary.
Trent Saunders, a former employee at a coffee shop in Clare, worked for her for two years, starting at $16 an hour and then rising to $19.5. And this salary is fixed, even overtime has no extra pay.
According to Australian law rules, Clare withheld Saunders15582's salary, but when Saunders asked Clare for the money, Clare fired him directly.
Saunders is not the only employee to be held salary by Clare. According to the Inland Revenue Bureau, two other coffee shops have seized 169000 Australian dollars of salary and 137000 Australian dollars of pension, according to a survey by the Inland Revenue Bureau.
Clare is now being questioned not only about detaining salary, but also about her illegal business practices, because she filed for bankruptcy in 2016, but sold the coffee shop for five hundred thousand Australian dollars in 2017.
In Australia, the most vulnerable to wage exploitation is international students, constrained by visa, language and working hours, who are struggling to find a reasonable part-time job.
Australia's largest chain, 711, and Malaysian restaurant Papparich have been exposed to scandals over the exploitation of foreign students. According to media reports, many 7-11 employees can only get 10 Australian dollars of pre-tax salary, and 2% of the chain stores defraud employees and cover up exploitation outside.
The Papparich restaurant has also been reported to pay students working in the store a salary of just 13 Australian dollars an hour, while the law says it should be at least 21 Australian dollars.
The Australian Sun Herald in 2016 reported that a chain of sushi restaurants squeezed Chinese students. The Chinese student, Ma, worked five hours at the Melbourne sushi restaurant before getting paid a penny. Her boss gave her only four sushi rolls. The boss initially said salary was 10 Australian dollars an hour, but later said she was inexperienced and had to study without pay for a while, replacing salary with sushi, she said.
Some law people said that many international students do not know about Australia-related law, do not know their due work rights. So some bad employers deceive even threat students based on this, for example, if students dare to complain, the employer will turn them in and the students will be deported.
However, exploitation is more than that. Therefore, in order to protect their rights and interests, before we work, we should understand Australia's relevant law regulations.
The following are provided by Meld Magazine:
So, what is labour exploitation?
If your employer fails to pay you legal salary or violates Australian labor law, it is labour exploitation. These include, inter alia:
1. No lunchtime available
2. Require that you have to pay your salary in cash (that is, you are not on the company's official employee list)
3. Require you to violate visa regulations (e. G. require you to work more than 40 hours per fortnightly)
4. Let you work in unsafe working conditions
5. No paid sick leave or annual leave
What is the statutory minimum salary?
The statutory minimum salary is the minimum salary standard that the law requires an employer to pay to an employee. This criterion is based on your type of employment (such as temporary, part-time, full-time) and labor rulings (or labor contracts).
Part-time employees who work less than 38 hours a week should have regular working hours per week and enjoy full-time treatment. If there is no paid sick leave and weekly working hours are not fixed, you should be a temporary employee.
Your minimum working conditions should be specified in labor adjudication and business agreement documents. Labor decisions need to specify which rights you can enjoy as an employee, and the requirements for your employer are specified in the corporate agreement.
If you work on weekends, evenings, public holidays or overtime, you can get more pay. These standards apply only to Victoria, and standards in other parts of Australia will vary according to local conditions.
If you want to know the minimum salary criteria for your work, you can call Fair work Consulting at 131394 or visit the following Web site for search.
https://calculate.fairwork.gov.au/findyouraward
What is the Fair work Ombudsman's Office?
The Equal work Ombudsman's Office (Fair Work Ombudsman,), or FWO, is an independent Australian government agency dedicated to ensuring that everyone complies with the Fair work Act and Australian work-related law, including that everyone should be treated fairly at work.
If you feel that you are being exploited at work or that the salary is below statutory standards, you can:
1. Dial FWO 131394
2. If you live in Victoria, you can make an appointment with the International Student work Rights law Service (International Students Work Rights Legal Service) for free, confidential law advice. You just need to send Email to [email protected] to complete your appointment.
The law Service Center for International Student work Rights is located in Study Melbourne Student Centre, downtown.
The work issues you reflect to the (FWO) or the law Service for International Student work Rights will not affect your visa. The Fair work Ombudsman is an independent government-funded agency that does not, in principle, divulge your personal information or working hours to other government departments, such as immigration.
The law Service Center for International Student work Rights is not part of the government organization, so the information they have is completely confidential. The information you disclose to the two organizations will be used only to help you maintain your rights and interests at work, and will not be leaked to third parties.
Many foreign students are afraid of visa problems, and they are also afraid of being exploited. The introduction has fuelled the arrogance of black employers. Australia respects a fair and just working environment, and if it feels that it has been exploited and bullied, Please learn to use law means to protect yourself, the results of serious work will be rewarded.