Excerpt from a YouTube video by Donald Burns about HR practices in restaurants. In this segment SPEAKER A contrasts U.S. "at-will" employment (either party can terminate without cause) with Australia’s stronger labor protections and use of employment contracts, and emphasizes the importance of HR compliance and fair work practices for restaurants.
Another thing, like in Australia, which is different than the United States. So in the United States, most states are what we call at will employment. At will employment, like, you can work for me, Mark, tomorrow. I could just like, have a. Just a bad day and I say, mark, you're fired. Get out. And then that's it. At will employment. At will employment is like. It's basically like I can. Either of us can terminate our worker relationship and no harm, no foul, everyone just walks away. Where in Australia, there's a lot of labor laws and there's also contracts available, too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Again, that's why earlier in the show we said we marked off, oh, this is for hr. Because we don't want anybody in trouble. So we want to make sure we check that box that we are, yes, we are safety and fair work, HR compliant. We are definitely doing everything we need to do.
If your restaurant only works because you work 80 hours a week, it doesn't work.
