Australian Apprenticeship Tools For Life Program

[Omurru]

RDO's are to do with being paid on an hourly basis and paid meal breaks etc. I get paid overtime, if I work 4hours overtime I get paid for 4hours. Where as I work for 8hours a day standard shift with .8 of an hour breaks and get paid for 7.2hours a day hence I accrue RDO's at a rate of .8 hours a day...basically means I get paid breaks. For different people it works different ways, it's all about what your EBA says and the shifts that you work.

The question I ask you though is what would you do without tradies? Yes some are slackasses and will be doing basic jobs that earn 50g a year for the rest of their lives but we need those people. There are however alot of highly skilled trades as well that also pay alot more. I am for example an engineer for Qantas, without people doing my job Qantas aircraft would not be allowed to fly. I did an apprentiship, I have spent years learning/studying and still am and thousands on license courses, there's not a whole lot of difference between someone like me and and someone who goes to uni and stuidies and then gets a job, it's just different process of doing it. My brother for example has done HR at uni, 3 days a week, half of that he doesn't even go to, while earning 45g a year at the same time working at coles and now he's finished uni has a fantastic fulltime HR job, nothing bad about that?

The bonuses being offered are a great idea, We need tradies, there's no denying it, if you want more and people aren't doing it you need to give them an incentive, it's as simple as that. Us whinging about it is all people who have recently finished apprentiships and missed out on these incentives, none of us really care we just like whinging because were traides

BTW, someone said you were a real estate agent? I'm looking for a place in North Melb or Carlton at the moment, where bouts you work?

[Do-Luck]

Yeah, the RDO system is great, and the sacrifices in your hourly rate don't hurt at all. The shit I do is pretty specialised as well, I have to travel all over the country, working on either conveyor systems, water treatment plants, aswell as beverage lines at brewerys and soft drink makers. Think about that next time you drink a Schweppes beverage, or a Boags Draught

[alr33x]

RDO's are to do with being paid on an hourly basis and paid meal breaks etc. I get paid overtime, if I work 4hours overtime I get paid for 4hours. Where as I work for 8hours a day standard shift with .8 of an hour breaks and get paid for 7.2hours a day hence I accrue RDO's at a rate of .8 hours a day...basically means I get paid breaks. For different people it works different ways, it's all about what your EBA says and the shifts that you work.

The question I ask you though is what would you do without tradies? Yes some are slackasses and will be doing basic jobs that earn 50g a year for the rest of their lives but we need those people. There are however alot of highly skilled trades as well that also pay alot more. I am for example an engineer for Qantas, without people doing my job Qantas aircraft would not be allowed to fly. I did an apprentiship, I have spent years learning/studying and still am and thousands on license courses, there's not a whole lot of difference between someone like me and and someone who goes to uni and stuidies and then gets a job, it's just different process of doing it. My brother for example has done HR at uni, 3 days a week, half of that he doesn't even go to, while earning 45g a year at the same time working at coles and now he's finished uni has a fantastic fulltime HR job, nothing bad about that?

The bonuses being offered are a great idea, We need tradies, there's no denying it, if you want more and people aren't doing it you need to give them an incentive, it's as simple as that. Us whinging about it is all people who have recently finished apprentiships and missed out on these incentives, none of us really care we just like whinging because were traides

BTW, someone said you were a real estate agent? I'm looking for a place in North Melb or Carlton at the moment, where bouts you work?

nah im out west but i can pm u some contacts if you want, i think i know a guy who works in that area. Of course we need tradies now that you explained the RDO system it also makes more sense. I spose its natural my mates will say its for nothign to talk their job up but like u said its accrued.

and i wasnt havin a crack at anyone directly can only go off what my mates tell me who are in the trade.

[NO-GTR]

Yeah, the RDO system is great, and the sacrifices in your hourly rate don't hurt at all. The shit I do is pretty specialised as well, I have to travel all over the country, working on either conveyor systems, water treatment plants, aswell as beverage lines at brewerys and soft drink makers. Think about that next time you drink a Schweppes beverage, or a Boags Draught

what do you do? sound the same as my job lol. im an instro technition.

[Do-Luck]

Electrician, but we do a fair bit of work involved with PLC's, however I don't do any of the programming.