in my last job, I was did dirty by my company,
on signing up to become a full time, they set in my contract of 60k salary, which should not include super, but in actual it is 60k including super.
an honours degree in food science as well
then after 2 year, they only agree to raise my salary to 63k, no support to progress further, HR are hard to get in contact. (this is in australia, so compared to america, the number should be higher, this is equivalent of getting paid (direct conversion) 41k a year
weekend work is I believe also on the grey zone of legality, they pay 1.2x for saturday and 1.5x for sunday, and it is not voluntary, but a must
since it is salary, there is no overtime during weekday,
they only count the week as minimum 38hr pay, as it is not wage pay, but fair enough, being a salary
and I want to ask not based on above
my task during the day
- colect up to 30kg worth of sample which i need to carry in a 10 minute walk from sampling area
- test those sample for water activity, and send the other for external testing
- collect packed product for nutrition content analysis, collected in different part of factory
- do air sampling
- reporting product release
- allergen testing for product and food contact surfaces
- do pre op swab starting at 3, and finish by 4 that I need to go back down again, because cleaning finish at 5, and I need to catch an item for swab, giving me 1 15 min windows
- do internal audit
- equipment calibration
- GMP enforcement
- laboratory management, including cleaning, maintainance and procurement
- test pH of product
- check up on product storage (we have old cooling system that gave us 1 incident of the system leaking water at least once a month)
- keep up with product traceability
- be on call for middle of production cleaning test (allergen and microbial swab)
- chase up production floor staff ( collecting equipment that need to be calibrated)
- label all equipment under my care
- and the amount of sample to be tested cause me to work up to 9 hr a day
so yeah
sorry if this becoming me ranting out or not related at all for this thread
on another note, I was in interview recently for a job not related to QA, or in a food industry, it is a lab technician in construction manufacturing.
they say the pay is wage based, need to work 40hr a week, and from what I understand they will only pay 38 hr of that week, with the last 2 hr will be converted into extra day off hr currency.so in a year, in addition to the standard 4 week paid leave, and 2 week sick leave, they will give extra 12 days leave from those accumulated day off hour currency.
what I feel it being bad is that, by technicality, i will work 12 days less in a year, one that is unpaid. and i dont have a choice in that if I want those wage I must take an unpaid leave.
but the 2 hr of paid leave will also give me those day off currency? (not sure)