My employer (a large hotel chain) employed me as a manager a few years ago. I signed an initial 12 month contract that said I get paid xx amount and need to do an average of x amount of hours and I am part time. Since then I have not signed another contract. How should my pay work? They pay me for the hours I do, I do not get penalty rates for working weekends and and I am on a lower rate of pay than my casual workers. Is this considered normal?
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If you are permanent part time then your hourly rate will be less than a casual employee usually. Difference is they don’t get sick pay or holiday pay.
I would think as a manager you would get paid more for the position. Yes casual get paid more then other part timers in the same job title but as your probably talking about the other workers who work under you I think your underpaid. check fairwork and type in your job to find your award. yoi should get penalty rates
From my experience (tourism area), the major hotels never pay penalty rates, it is all supposed to be loaded in the hourly award rate. Casual employees usually get about 25 percent more, as stated above, due to no holiday pay, sick leave.
Sounds normal to me. However, you could contact fair work or look up the award.
If they are paying you what the contract says, then they are honouring your agreement. If you aren’t happy, maybe renegotiate if you haven’t had a pay rise for a few years.