Originally Posted by
tail wheel
What purpose? To increase our broader understanding of the aviation world. What purpose does the rest of PPRuNe serve?
You are either employed under an individual registered ITEA, a registered collective EBA, another legitimate form of registered industrial instrument, or the Award applies.
There's also the people employed on verbal agreements, who trust their employer in the beginning, but when the employer changes their mind, find it very costly to prove the terms of an agreement. That was rather the point of the question, to see how prevalent this practise is.
Maccas are paying $17 per hour, full time work, no training required!
I appreciate the spirit in which you remark, but the McDonalds Award specifies a three-month training period during which wages are considerably lower than what you would get upon completion of your initial three months, and for any progression within the company other than operating a cash register or cooking hamburgers, there is a great deal of training to undertake.