bullwinkle
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Hi,
I have a query regarding something that happened to my nephew. He is 16 and has been looking for a restaurant job for a while, just for the summer and then in the evenings/weekends when he returns to school.
Anyway he dropped in a lot of C.V.s and got a call back to one restaurant in Dublin City Centre. They interviewed him and then about a week later rang him to say he got the job and would be covering holidays for the summer. So, she said turn up Wednesday evening and have a chef uniform i.e trousers, white jacket and hat - so he runs around gets the uniform etc and arrives in to work.
He did a six hour shift in the kitchen and the boss comes out to him and says okay you're finished now if we need you again we'll ring you, you won't be getting paid for this?. So, he left and was very confused by all of this so immediately his mother rang the restaurant to see what was going on.
Eventually the manager rings her back and says look we have different people in every night covering a shift and we don't have to pay them - we're perfectly entitled to do that. So, in other words they take on these young kids, they all go get a uniform sorted because they've been told they got the job and then they are given one night without pay. Surely to god this isn't legal, can anyone advise on who you could make a complaint to.
The manager in the restaurant just hung up the phone, didn't care whatsoever about it.
I have a query regarding something that happened to my nephew. He is 16 and has been looking for a restaurant job for a while, just for the summer and then in the evenings/weekends when he returns to school.
Anyway he dropped in a lot of C.V.s and got a call back to one restaurant in Dublin City Centre. They interviewed him and then about a week later rang him to say he got the job and would be covering holidays for the summer. So, she said turn up Wednesday evening and have a chef uniform i.e trousers, white jacket and hat - so he runs around gets the uniform etc and arrives in to work.
He did a six hour shift in the kitchen and the boss comes out to him and says okay you're finished now if we need you again we'll ring you, you won't be getting paid for this?. So, he left and was very confused by all of this so immediately his mother rang the restaurant to see what was going on.
Eventually the manager rings her back and says look we have different people in every night covering a shift and we don't have to pay them - we're perfectly entitled to do that. So, in other words they take on these young kids, they all go get a uniform sorted because they've been told they got the job and then they are given one night without pay. Surely to god this isn't legal, can anyone advise on who you could make a complaint to.
The manager in the restaurant just hung up the phone, didn't care whatsoever about it.