out of curiosity can an employee force you to open a bank account with a certain institution because they will only pay into that institution? Government sites don't say anything about it so I thought I should ask here.
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babikakez
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I highly doubt that this is legal. May I ask what kind of business it is?
Definately contact the Workplace Ombudsman to confirm - maybe they can help you with your employer.
Definately contact the Workplace Ombudsman to confirm - maybe they can help you with your employer.
townie
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I wouldnt have thought that that was legal. Besides, it's a bullshit excuse, every bank in Australia would let you transfer money into any other bank account in australia.
babikakez
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What I was thinking is that its quite a small business that doesn't want to pay fees or whatever for transferring outside their institution.
And Peartie even thats not acceptable. When my mum worked at Bankwest, all of her pay went to a Commonwealth account.
fair enough
im just going off a friends experience...he works at a bank (st george) and got a free account opened up and thats where his pay goes into...i thought that it was fair enough...just my opinion
im just going off a friends experience...he works at a bank (st george) and got a free account opened up and thats where his pay goes into...i thought that it was fair enough...just my opinion
It's a cafe i've been told hospitality are notorious for doing this my boyfriend's old work did it to him and a person at another bank told him they weren't allowed to do it. Thanks for the word, just thought i'd double check
TheGeorgia
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I was part of childrens holiday program for state library and had to open account with a sponsoring bank, part of the requirements of getting the job,
i didn't really mind though,
at $20.15 per hour
i didn't really mind though,
at $20.15 per hour