Employer forcing unpaid hours

[Mel_B1981]

Are you on a salary or a wage? If you are on a salary, often your contract will have some clause about "reasonable overtime" and maybe even outside of hours training.

I think it's one of those contracts that's based on award. I know I don't get any overtime so they're already getting an extra hour and a half FREE work out of me each and every day cause they refuse to change my hours of work to suit my husband's hours (he was hired when I tried quitting previously in an effort to force me to stay cause they didn't want to lose me).

[nothing2lose]

Time Off In Lieu

[Mel_B1981]

Nope - nadda, zilch. just a "be there or get an official warning"

[Astrid]

I think it's one of those contracts that's based on award. I know I don't get any overtime so they're already getting an extra hour and a half FREE work out of me each and every day cause they refuse to change my hours of work to suit my husband's hours (he was hired when I tried quitting previously in an effort to force me to stay cause they didn't want to lose me).

Ok, that does not make sense. If you based on an award, then normally there are quite strict provisions for over-time. Even if you don't follow an award exactly any agreement in place must not make you worse off than the award. What type of role are you? Some types of roles are heavily covered by awards, whilst others tend to be more independent contracts.

[Mel_B1981]

I'm 2IC of a sales team, but my pay structure and salary is the same today as it was 5 years ago when I started with the company as a "admin assistant"

Only difference now is I've had a couple of pay rises, and now my commission isn't based on my own performance, as a manager it's based on the TEAMS performance (another BIG TIME gripe - I have no control over the sales team and how well they perform to budget, but yet my commission is now only provided when THEY meet budget - which they haven't done for over 5 months now!!)