Granted Asylum
Once you have cleared the hurdle of your getting your application accepted, you now need to settle down and take stock of what your options are. Because you need money you need to get work.
Workers Rights
Wages: In most countries now there is a minimum wage, find this out and ensure you are paid appropriately. Many unscrupulous employers will fiddle with your wages. I remember this guy who employed me and my annual salary was a paltry “£11,000” a year and in this salary was factored in a bonus. The bonus was half the salary. If you failed to meet your target, he penalised you by reducing your monthly wage. How it worked was if I stayed behind after 17:30 when all the other employees had left for the day I could boost my wages by doing some extra work. Come month end and the boss would calculate from some scale and determine I had not met the target, so the £5,500 was reduced by 12%. This was always the case. None of us ever earned a bonus. I always ended up reducing my monthly and annual wages. I jumped ship after a couple of months.
Another guy I worked for also did the same. Boy did I have this cleaning job. I walked out of the house to go to work at 04:00hrs in the morning, Monday to Monday and did not get back home until 22:00hrs. When it came to wages I barely made the hours for five (8 hour day) days a week. I sat down once and went through a couple of pay slips and he always deducted 40% off my wages every month, claiming I had not hit targets.
Someone has taught black employers how to fiddle employee salaries with some target theory, and God knows where they learnt this from. My advice here, bolt the moment you sense your employer is a wages thief.
There are great companies to wok for out there and I have had the opportunity to work for them. Put in your hard work and you are well rewarded with bonuses, pay raises and promotions.
Health and Safety: Your well being is of paramount importance to you and yourself. If you are physically impaired, you will find it hard to get work and you will have no income and that is going to make life so difficult.
I did some work for this cutlery cleaning company and many things were wrong, but I was a target worker at this company and only wanted some funds to travel abroad, so I was ready to pay the price of some discomforts. But there was one discomfort that would have ended in serious disruption.
These guys employed hordes of immigrants (legal and illegal). And the treatment was not up to scratch. There was a team leader, more appropriately a slave driver, who singled out some of us for very ridiculous tasks. He would ask us to unblock drainages, while very hot water was running through, by the time we finished our fingers looked like boiled sausages. On this one occasion he asked me a couple of guys to lift a huge skip fool of rotting food and water. Four of us were supposed to lift it up onto a loading bay so that a track would then take it away. I asked him if he was joking and in his broken English, “yes, think am jokin, lif up to there now”. I told him in very clear terms, I had no intention of injuring my back, if anything we were not even insured on the site leave alone to lift such things.
This did it. He ranted on about how disobedient I was and called me a rubble rouser. While the others were being complacent and asking me not to stir things up and just get on with the job, I asked him to bring more people from his privileged teams. He nearly chocked. The other guys also wanted him to bring more people and they could only come from this privileged team. Before long there was a shouting match between the two groups on who does what. The team leader realising things were getting out of hand called the whole lifting thing off. After earning what I wanted I left. Know your rights!
Once you have cleared the hurdle of your getting your application accepted, you now need to settle down and take stock of what your options are. Because you need money you need to get work.
Workers Rights
Wages: In most countries now there is a minimum wage, find this out and ensure you are paid appropriately. Many unscrupulous employers will fiddle with your wages. I remember this guy who employed me and my annual salary was a paltry “£11,000” a year and in this salary was factored in a bonus. The bonus was half the salary. If you failed to meet your target, he penalised you by reducing your monthly wage. How it worked was if I stayed behind after 17:30 when all the other employees had left for the day I could boost my wages by doing some extra work. Come month end and the boss would calculate from some scale and determine I had not met the target, so the £5,500 was reduced by 12%. This was always the case. None of us ever earned a bonus. I always ended up reducing my monthly and annual wages. I jumped ship after a couple of months.
Another guy I worked for also did the same. Boy did I have this cleaning job. I walked out of the house to go to work at 04:00hrs in the morning, Monday to Monday and did not get back home until 22:00hrs. When it came to wages I barely made the hours for five (8 hour day) days a week. I sat down once and went through a couple of pay slips and he always deducted 40% off my wages every month, claiming I had not hit targets.
Someone has taught black employers how to fiddle employee salaries with some target theory, and God knows where they learnt this from. My advice here, bolt the moment you sense your employer is a wages thief.
There are great companies to wok for out there and I have had the opportunity to work for them. Put in your hard work and you are well rewarded with bonuses, pay raises and promotions.
Health and Safety: Your well being is of paramount importance to you and yourself. If you are physically impaired, you will find it hard to get work and you will have no income and that is going to make life so difficult.
I did some work for this cutlery cleaning company and many things were wrong, but I was a target worker at this company and only wanted some funds to travel abroad, so I was ready to pay the price of some discomforts. But there was one discomfort that would have ended in serious disruption.
These guys employed hordes of immigrants (legal and illegal). And the treatment was not up to scratch. There was a team leader, more appropriately a slave driver, who singled out some of us for very ridiculous tasks. He would ask us to unblock drainages, while very hot water was running through, by the time we finished our fingers looked like boiled sausages. On this one occasion he asked me a couple of guys to lift a huge skip fool of rotting food and water. Four of us were supposed to lift it up onto a loading bay so that a track would then take it away. I asked him if he was joking and in his broken English, “yes, think am jokin, lif up to there now”. I told him in very clear terms, I had no intention of injuring my back, if anything we were not even insured on the site leave alone to lift such things.
This did it. He ranted on about how disobedient I was and called me a rubble rouser. While the others were being complacent and asking me not to stir things up and just get on with the job, I asked him to bring more people from his privileged teams. He nearly chocked. The other guys also wanted him to bring more people and they could only come from this privileged team. Before long there was a shouting match between the two groups on who does what. The team leader realising things were getting out of hand called the whole lifting thing off. After earning what I wanted I left. Know your rights!
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