{"id":1220,"date":"2008-06-19T00:08:52","date_gmt":"2008-06-18T14:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1220"},"modified":"2008-06-19T06:34:55","modified_gmt":"2008-06-18T20:34:55","slug":"video-dogs-mo-money-mo-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/?p=1220","title":{"rendered":"Video Dogs : Mo’ Money Mo’ Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update<\/strong> : Movies for work inquiry by Workplace Ombudsman<\/a>, Annalise Walliker, Herald Sun<\/em>, June 19, 2008: ‘THE owner of a shop offering free DVD hire instead of wages has admitted he made a “little mistake” and has withdrawn the offer… Mr Mallalieu said he believed he had been ambushed by union officials who alerted the media before speaking to him. “We’ve lost several hundred dollars this morning because the media have camped out the front, scaring away customers. It’s a mess over one little mistake,” he said.’<\/p>\n

Store offers DVD hire instead of wages<\/a>
\nAnnalise Walliker
\nHerald Sun<\/em>
\nJune 18, 2008<\/p>\n

A RIP-off or a move to a cashless society? A Melbourne video store is advertising for students to work for free DVD hire instead of wages.<\/p>\n

The Herald Sun<\/em> reports that a sign in the window of Video Dogs in Carlton reads ”DVD’s for free? Well almost…” Staff at the store confirmed two hours work each night would be remunerated solely with free DVDs.<\/p>\n

Anthony Main, secretary for union UNITE<\/a>, said it was one of the worst examples of young worker exploitation he had ever seen.<\/p>\n

“We were alerted to the sign yesterday and where we visited the store last night it was confirmed by a staff member there were no wages involved,” he said.<\/p>\n

“What will be next, working at McDonald’s in exchange for Big Macs?”<\/p>\n

Mr Main said paying staff with goods and services rather than a minimum wage was illegal.<\/p>\n

“We ask the local residents to think twice about where they are renting their DVDS from,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Our message is, don’t to business with dogs.”<\/p>\n

The Workplace Ombudsman is investigating, and will release a statement later today.<\/p>\n

The Herald Sun<\/em> is seeking comment from the store’s manager.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Huh. I was at Video Dogs (Buy!<\/a> Rent!<\/a> 178 Faraday Street, Carlton, Phone (03) 9347 2185) on Monday, and remember seeing the ad in question. On a vaguely ironic note, given the above, in December 2006, the owner of Video Dogs, Jonathan Mallalieu, was interviewed<\/a> by the Musicians’ Union. Mallalieu being a musician and, presumably, a unionist… So much for employment; as for service, oh boy!<\/a><\/p>\n

See also<\/em> : Video shop accused of paying staff in DVDs<\/a>, News.com.au, June 18, 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update : Movies for work inquiry by Workplace Ombudsman, Annalise Walliker, Herald Sun, June 19, 2008: ‘THE owner of a shop offering free DVD hire instead of wages has admitted he made a “little mistake” and has withdrawn the offer… … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6AyE-jG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6097,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions\/6097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slackbastard.anarchobase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}