Hallo zusammen. Das ist ein Thema, das mir am Herzen liegt. Mein enger Freund wurde von dem Restaurant, für das er arbeitet, betrogen. Als er sein Gehalt anhand seines Tarifvertrags überprüfte, stellte er fest, dass er ständig unterbezahlt worden war. Glücklicherweise gelang es ihm, Hunderte von Euro pro Monat sowie die gesamte Nachzahlung zurückzubekommen, nachdem er darum gekämpft hatte. Auch ein paar Freunde, die ein Praktikum machen, haben ähnliche Erfahrungen gemacht.
Es kommt mir furchtbar falsch vor, dass Arbeitgeber weiterhin Arbeitnehmer betrügen und niemand versucht, etwas dagegen zu unternehmen. Deshalb versuche ich, eine technische Lösung dafür zu entwickeln (wageguard.org wenn Sie es sich ansehen möchten).
Frage: Wie hat Ihr Chef Sie ausgenutzt, wenn Sie damit zurechtgekommen sind? Was hätte dir geholfen?
Und sorry fürs erneute Posten!
How do companies manage to scam workers with hourly salaries?
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Von Majestic_Command_109
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Used be a trucker. When I got promotion, they still kept paying me same old salary linked to previous role. Luckily, I read TES and contracts but I think many us don’t have time to do that. After that job, I’ve called with labour unions but they seem to be busy even if they know the topic well.
About your site, you’re solving with tech? I think it is quite big problem so even if you can fix 10% that could help a lot
Who could do anything about it besides the person itself?
You can join union and let them check agreement and the salary you’ve gotten if there’s a suspicion about foul play but even union won’t do it without complaint. Adults are supposed to do at least the minimum to look after themselves, like checking the salary, finding about labour laws and unions, worker rights etc.
You will only see that happened with foreigners
I don’t know. I have my own company, and I think it’s just part of the “game” to work extra long hours for free. Unions do sometimes come and bother me, and I do end up paying workers what I owe them — but I don’t think it’s fair.
I started my career as sales representative. As the job was mostly commission based, I was super unsure what my real pay is. In the end, discussed with peers how they calculated salaries
Good luck with the technical solution. Signed up for the waitlist to support you.
We can’t babysit everything, people need to take responsibility of their finances.
Restaurant sector, majority of staff were young (19-25) people freshly moved in to Finland, and it felt like that was used as an opportunity for mistreatment. We did get minimum wage, pretty much exactly to the cent. We were told that holiday pay only accrues after a year of employment (almost noone worked there for that long, the turnover was crazy), and when the minimum wage went up by a little bit, it was presented to us as a super generous payrise because we are such nice employees… All of us on 0 hour contracts, the full time employees would sometimes do 6 shifts a week, some of them 10 hours long. Weekends had shorter breaks (15 minutes). Once I had to skip on a family holiday trip because they said they just cannot give me days off, and I was too stupid to argue with it..
Overall there was just a lot of emotional manipulation, guilt tripping, etc etc. Eventually shit hit the fan when we were asked to attend mandatory unpaid meetings which we did not like. They basically implied that we have to go, because of their generous decision to give us free lunches, and low-key threatened that they can always take that privilege away..(as if we weren’t throwing out/taking home kilos of leftover food every week anyway). As they fired me, they wrote a 7 page document on why I (20yo at the time btw) am a terrible person that was lying and scheming and sabotaging their business, purely so that I could not get unemployment benefits for the first 3 months
Talk with your coworkers about pay and TES