Well it’s all happening; I’ve emailed Aussie giving them the go-ahead to submit my mortgage application to ANZ, so I should know within a week if I’ve got it or not. Wish me luck!
OMFG! Amazing!
The TIO has just called me and told me they have confirmation that the record of my debt has been removed. I called Veda Advantage to confirm this and they said it was deleted this morning. I even called Vodafone and thanked them for following it up and getting the issue resolved.
Now tonight I can do the last couple of bits needed for my mortgage application!
I’m so excited now!
I’ve just talked to the Office of Industrial Relations and clarified the terminology of the Award I am on.
Apparently the award does not expressly cover local public holidays. This means that the conferring of the benefit of a local public holiday to be is solely at the discretion of my employer. So basically, even though nearly every shop and business in the area will be closed, I will still have to work and I will not get any extra pay.
I hope my boss doesn’t realise this and gives me the half day off anyway.
Damn I hate this job!
Ok, so tomorrow afternoon is a gazetted public holiday for the Lismore area. This means I should only have to work from 9am until midday and then I get the rest of the day off.
The boss hasn’t mentioned anything about the day, so I figured I’d ask him. Here’s an outline of the conversation:
Me: are we closing at midday tomorrow for the Lismore Cup public holiday? Boss: Is the Pope a Jew?As we all know, the Pope is not Jewish, so I assume that means that I am working.
Now I’m trying to work out what Award I am on. I assume I’m on the “Clerical and Administrative Employees (State) Award” as a “Grade 3″ employee. If this is the case then I should get paid double time and a half for working on a public holiday.Here’s the bit of the award that I am using to determine this:
11.1 New Years Day, Australia Day, Good Friday, Easter Saturday, Easter Monday, Anzac Day, Queen’s Birthday, Eight Hour Day, Christmas Day, Boxing Day and an additional day’s holiday to be observed pursuant to subclause 11.2, and any other day gazetted as a public holiday for the State shall be holidays for the purposes of this award. [...] 11.5 For work done on any of the holidays, referred to in subclause 11.1 of this clause, an employee shall be paid double time and one-half and shall be paid for a minimum of four hours’ work.So, either my boss doesn’t understand the award wage system or he is completely nuts because he will be paying me enough wages to cover 12.5 hours of my work for 5 hours of me being here.
Sometimes getting information about my employment is like drawing blood from a stone.
Mortgage
ANZ, Aussie Home Loans, Mortgage
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