Month by Month Contracts

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  geekcohen on 21/08/2023 - 09:17

  Are you on their payroll? or are you sub contracting to them via your own ABN?

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    Jazza87 on 21/08/2023 - 09:35

    I’m Permant part time 50hrs with qld health
    I sign month by month extensions to 80hrs

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  geekcohen on 21/08/2023 - 09:19

  I have been there for 4.5 years

  Okay

  I’ve been told by the rumour mill that if I ask for full time work that they have to give it to me after a year of full time hours.

  So you have been their 4.5 years, how long have you been on full time hours?

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    Jazza87 on 21/08/2023 - 09:35

    Very close to one year

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  mrkorrupt on 21/08/2023 - 09:23

  +2

  yes, but your rate of pay will drop significantly

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    Jazza87 on 21/08/2023 - 09:33

    Pay rate is the same for both 50hr and 80hr contracts.
    The only difference is I get penalty rates for after 6pm on the 80hr contract and I don’t for the 50hr even though they are the same shifts

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  Jazza87 on 21/08/2023 - 09:27

  +1

  I’m employed by Qld government on a 50hr permanent part time contract.
  I have been signing a month by month full time contract for the last 11 months and I’m about to finish my 12th one on the 9/10/23 (1 year)

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  freefall101 on 21/08/2023 - 10:11

  What you've likely heard about is the Fair Work ruling on requesting a conversion after 12 months of work - https://www.fairwork.gov.au/starting-employment/types-of-emp…

  I'm not sure if that applies to contract extensions, although there are huge limits on rolling fixed term contracts (they're meant to be limited to renewing twice, not 11 times). After 4.5 years with them, there's reasonable grounds to believe they wouldn't just end your contract at some point. If they let you go without redundancy and you took it to fair work, you'd win easily. But for peace of mind, I'd just put in a request now to move onto a permanent contract. 11 months of full time contract extensions is ridiculous. Considering they apparently need you, they'd be hard pressed to turn it down anyway.

  tl;dr version, go have a quick, polite chat with HR. Mention the stress of contracts renewals and how long you've been there. Hopefully they sort it out.

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  Seraphin7 on 24/08/2023 - 16:13

  I’ve been told by the rumour mill that if I ask for full time work that they have to give it to me after a year of full time hours.

  What would be lost by you asking them if they are open to making you a full time employee? (But perhaps leave the "you have to give it to me" for a follow up conversation).